Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And the writing wo n't dry up after the story of Cormac is told . |
| 8 | Do not mark the holes too close together , or the cloves will fall out when the orange dries out . |
| 9 | When cutting off the nozzle of a new bottle of pva glue , the contents will eventually dry out unless the hole is sealed again . |
| 10 | They would n't hang around if the humans came . |
| 11 | Or must I wait about while the brat traipses away up there with meat for her , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | In ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ however , the androids will carry on after the humans have died . |
| 13 | How can I carry on when the bulb in the overhead projector has blown ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All existing records would be broken , and profits would flood in as the rich skiing culture flocked to resorts with the new hypersnow . |
| 19 | Yeah they are like and like they just do n't grow up until the time |
| 20 | One way or the other she would find out soon enough , for she must definitely speak up before the meal was over . |
| 21 | I have already commented that colours will not show up unless the intensity of the light is sufficiently great . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Additions equally probable anywhere This is both the most usual case and the assumption the designer should work on if no information is available . |
| 24 | Rhubarb fool is made in just the same way as gooseberry fool , but needs an even larger proportion of sugar , preferably dark brown , and it is very necessary when the rhubarb is cooked to put it in a colander or sieve and let the excess juice drain off before the purée is made and the cream added . |
| 25 | I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window . |
| 26 | She did not look up when the girls came in , although the billiard table was connected by a cord to a cow-bell , which jangled harshly . |
| 27 | The girl playing marbles did n't even look up as the travellers left . |
| 28 | Ask the task orientated member to regularly sum up where the meeting has reached . |
| 29 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 30 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |