Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 2 | Let us think rather of a twin track approach , in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences . |
| 3 | ‘ Should n't think so for a minute , knowing him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment , ’ said Rufus , whose speech grew more precise when he was drunk . |
| 5 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment . ’ |
| 6 | I should n't think so for a minute darling . |
| 7 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 8 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 9 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 10 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 11 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 12 | But I 'll think better over a pastis . |
| 13 | If he returned home in the evening he would sometimes dine with John Hayward but , since Hayward was an inveterate diner-out , he would often eat alone from a tray on his knees . |
| 14 | Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded . |
| 15 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 16 | Unless they are made available for further research , data which have often been collected at great expense and with significant effort may later exist only in a small number of reports which analyse only a fraction of the research potential of the data . |
| 17 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 18 | He would count slowly to a hundred . |
| 19 | This way it will act rather like an appetite suppressant pill — or , rather , in the way pills should act if they contained sufficient cellulose . |
| 20 | Even if flags are not embryos there are many cases in development where the embryo does behave rather like a regulating French flag . |
| 21 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 22 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 23 | Mother poured hair dye round the hoof ; even that did not act sufficiently as a lubricant to set the poor beast free . |
| 24 | ‘ What Souness has said will act only as a greater incentive for us in the replay at Selhurst Park . ’ |
| 25 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 26 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 27 | He began the Standard 's Premonitions Bureau to record and date any claims of prophecies , and which would act only as an independent and impartial witness . |
| 28 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 29 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 30 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |