Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail . |
| 2 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 3 | She is never left on her own as my mother stays at home when I go out , but she just waits on my bed and wo n't eat for food until I come back . |
| 4 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 5 | You ca n't think about morality when you are doing a movie like that . |
| 6 | We all like to feel safe and secure in our homes , and , but do we actually think about security unless we become a victim |
| 7 | MPC is the marginal private cost of films and reflects what the resources could earn for producers if they were employed in the meals industry . |
| 8 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |
| 9 | The issue , shortly stated , is whether there are touchings which do not qualify as treatment so that consent may be irrelevant . |
| 10 | We should not seek for precision where precision is an unnecessary and costly luxury . |
| 11 | Non-executive director John Evans will act as chairman until a permanent successor is found . |
| 12 | Advocates will not act as interpreters as these are already available . |
| 13 | The new machines will run MVS , enabling users to maintain mainframe databases and regardless of whether the operating system is MVS or AIX , both will act as servers for OS/2-based desktops . |
| 14 | Deputy chair of the Supreme Soviet , A. Iskandrov , would act as chair until the presidential elections , rescheduled to Nov. 24 , in which Nabiyev was planning to stand . |
| 15 | How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ? |
| 16 | He would n't know yet , would n't know about Nona till she told him . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know about Bella when I married her ; and I was an innocent abroad where women were concerned . |
| 18 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 19 | Some in the profession of political commentating would opt for Bagehot as their formative influence , but mine has long been Sir David — a founder of biased Tory journalism . |
| 20 | In fear of this possibility , many women choose to have pregnancy screenings and may opt for abortion if evidence of handicap is revealed . |
| 21 | Doctors do n't thin about donation until all attempts to save the patient have failed . |
| 22 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 23 | People who are liable to pay the community charge may qualify for benefit if they have a low income and no more than £16,000 in savings . |
| 24 | In their case the statute of limitations only started to apply once an actual fault was discovered , but their PI payments did not qualify for relief because they had stopped working . |
| 25 | There is also a rule for UB that you may not qualify for UB unless you are unemployed for at least 3 days of the social welfare week . |
| 26 | However , an agreement did not qualify for exemption if its beneficial effects were only indispensable within a national market . |
| 27 | The King must wait for help while I fought his enemies . |
| 28 | Its segments open , and out drop the fertilised fully-provisioned eggs — seeds — which if necessary can wait for years before moisture penetrates them and stimulates them to spring to life . |
| 29 | P Brownless will substitute for JF if he can not attend Group meetings . |
| 30 | You will let me know of course if you think it better to discontinue this when I start the new treatment . |