Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 2 | In the crudest sense , there are indeed ‘ young old ’ and ‘ old old ’ ; and although you can be either younger or older at any age , physical and mental disabilities do slowly cumulate on average with increasing years . |
| 3 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 4 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 5 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 6 | However , I do usually bow to tradition and give waiters and hairdressers a little extra . ’ |
| 7 | He toured widely but was dismayed at the corruption of public life which had arisen after the Northern victory and the Republican domination of Washington , led by men like Sumner : ‘ The rogues do public work in order to make money , and the honest men neglect public work in order to save money . |
| 8 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 9 | I must admit that trannies do often score over valve amps here . |
| 10 | But if interference effects do indeed operate at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association , it should be possible to show that an apparently weak association formed after conditioning with a pre-exposed stimulus can be revealed as being perfectly strong in appropriate conditions of testing . |
| 11 | Despite the elevation of chef to artisan cook to fine artist , it is still rare to find a British restaurant where food is served without a main eye on fashion and where home-grown ingredients do no appear as mutant clones of other cuisines . |
| 12 | We do however consider in Section 10–5 the implications of the different approaches for the size of the public sector , and discuss some of the econometric investigations that have been made of the determinants of public spending . |
| 13 | But if we have to make an explicit assumption that living creatures , or men , do actually exist in order to make an inferential paraphrase work , then a reductivist analysis fails to achieve its purpose and we are back exactly where we began . |
| 14 | I do n't want to bump too hard against the plane 's fuselage in case we do actually come into contact with it . |
| 15 | Perhaps two sets of people do actually agree on education . |
| 16 | Although in ’ Coarse Fisherman ’ I primarily write about coarse fish to be caught on lures — pike , zander , perch etc. — I do occasionally refer to game fish and in this feature I want to mention sea angling . |
| 17 | Abuses that do occasionally come to light are wrongly sensationalized as being common place rather than being merely one off incidents . |
| 18 | We need only think of laurel leaves ( from which cyanide is derived ) and the foxglove , which can be lethal unless cautiously administered . |
| 19 | For our immediate purposes , we need only keep in mind that particular public sector organizations can fall in either of the categories of Type A non-profit and Type B non-profit . |
| 20 | Many need extra help in English and other types of subject . |
| 21 | We need more space for art … |
| 22 | We need more support from food producers and retailers . |
| 23 | There is a slight problem of ghettoisation or marginalisation but that 's an inevitable stage that people pass through , just like you need any form of organisation to group people around as a focus . ’ |
| 24 | If you do elect to have a full structural survey you can , of course , leave it to your building society or bank to select a surveyor for you , and you need never come in contact with him . |