Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , the conclusions of Gilbert and Specht are indirect and do not necessarily show that client participation in implementation stages is ineffective .
2 I could only hope that Father Christmas had one up his sleeve for me !
3 All in all , it can only mean that tea time is on the up and up .
4 That political will does not exist because public opinion has not yet begun to be aware of the scale of possible changes that governments will ask their publics to accept .
5 On the latter point , I do not think that precipitate action on sanctions is the point at issue .
6 Thus , we do not think that protein deprivation had any effect on CD4 counts .
7 The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December .
8 We do not know that market motivation is more effective in promoting high standards of care than professional value systems , ethical standards and organisational traditions of public service , professional and peer review , inspectorates , public criticism and evaluative research .
9 Dr James said he did not know if Tayside Health Board is to continue providing money for treatment .
10 Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed .
11 But the mercury content of the sediment could soon improve if Liverpool Bay follows the pattern of the Manchester Ship canal , where there already been a significant decrease and a corresponding decline of mercury in the estuary 's surface sediment .
12 to establish that emulsions do not break or foams collapse .
13 The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized .
14 Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored .
15 But Roderick Henderson , who runs the chef division of recruitment consultant Berkeley Scott , does not believe that contract catering is always a financially rewarding sector in which to work .
16 I do not believe that M. Guérigny did feel responsible .
17 If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ?
18 He did not believe that council reform should be at the top of the list of problems to be dealt with in Scotland .
19 She does not believe that day care can substitute for the one-to-one relationship between mother and child , and favours the introduction of greater financial incentives and other support for the family care of children .
20 The minister did not believe that Tameside Council could properly implement the change within the limited time available .
21 Letting agents Whelan Best believe that Heritage Plaza is ideally suited to a wide variety of retailers , including the owners of gift shops , bookshops , craft shops , antique and fashion and accessory outlets .
22 In fact , I can not see that sound symbolism can be discussed in any safe and effective manner without a basic knowledge of the articulatory or acoustic features of sounds .
23 There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought .
24 This applies for example if X uses SGML or troff mark-up , but does not apply if X source files have lots of idiosyncratic binary codes embedded in them .
25 [ … ] However , this does not imply that transaction specificity is confined to physical durable assets : human investment in individual or team knowledge that is not fully transferable is also transaction specific .
26 While military spending was constrained by the renunciation of belligerency , this does not mean that defence expenditure is insignificant .
27 So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) .
28 But while many of the economic arguments favouring unrestricted insider dealing make interesting reading , they can not prove that insider dealing is desirable .
29 Equally , economics can not prove that insider dealing is undesirable .
30 In the Commons , by contrast , committee members do not hire and fire committee staff and will not usually have more than one personal staff assistant .
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