Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 2 | ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) " |
| 3 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 4 | A recent experiment in America showed that people of normal weight might start eating at a reasonably rapid pace at the beginning of a meal , when their hunger is at a peak , but this eating rate will steadily slow down as the meal progresses . |
| 5 | In this situation , some models will run out of RPM and the blades may slow down and the motor begin to labour . |
| 6 | Those already retired will stay in until a new scheme specially for them is set up , but all their assets will continue to be managed by the trustees of the new joint scheme . |
| 7 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 8 | Sometime , perhaps tonight , the roof would fall in and the house would collapse . |
| 9 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 10 | And the writing wo n't dry up after the story of Cormac is told . |
| 11 | Do not mark the holes too close together , or the cloves will fall out when the orange dries out . |
| 12 | When cutting off the nozzle of a new bottle of pva glue , the contents will eventually dry out unless the hole is sealed again . |
| 13 | They would n't hang around if the humans came . |
| 14 | Or must I wait about while the brat traipses away up there with meat for her , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | In ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ however , the androids will carry on after the humans have died . |
| 16 | How can I carry on when the bulb in the overhead projector has blown ? |
| 17 | If species were indeed fixed , then their state of adaptation to the environment would gradually break down as the conditions were changed by geological forces . |
| 18 | Communication may break down because the task of the manager and the volunteer is diverging , so that the manager 's activities seem distant to the volunteer . |
| 19 | However , there seems to be no reason why it should break down until the gravitational field becomes strong enough that quantum gravitational effects are important . |
| 20 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 21 | All existing records would be broken , and profits would flood in as the rich skiing culture flocked to resorts with the new hypersnow . |
| 22 | But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit . |
| 23 | Yeah they are like and like they just do n't grow up until the time |
| 24 | They 'll grow up and a little bit 'll come from somewhere over there . |
| 25 | One way or the other she would find out soon enough , for she must definitely speak up before the meal was over . |
| 26 | I have already commented that colours will not show up unless the intensity of the light is sufficiently great . |
| 27 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 28 | I mean I 'm sure it 's the same claw cos it 's never grown back you see , when he 's had it cut off but what the vet was hoping was that the claw would grow back and the the top of of the tissue , see what I mean ? |
| 29 | For geographers — who span the conventional ( and now archaic ) dichotomy between the natural and the environmental sciences — all of these aspects need to be woven together to anticipate the likely spatial patterns of the effects of massive change , the redistributions in trade , health and wealth which they will bring about and the ‘ knock on ’ effects these consequences themselves will have on society and the environment . |
| 30 | Additions equally probable anywhere This is both the most usual case and the assumption the designer should work on if no information is available . |