Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 2 | Having fixed a reasonable standard the court must then consider how those caring for the child , usually the parents , actually measure up to this . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not know how that fits into historical precedence . |
| 4 | With metals it is essentially due to the operation of the dislocation mechanism which was described in the last chapter ; we shall discuss how this works in Chapter 9 . |
| 5 | And North said , ‘ Oh geez , I did n't realise you had that , ’ or , ‘ I do n't know where that came from ’ … |
| 6 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 7 | Do you know where that came from that book ? |
| 8 | And do you know when that stopped at all ? |
| 9 | They do n't they do n't smell so bad compared with the other ones do you want one Dad ? |
| 10 | But it will make you feel better able to cope with what the world is throwing at you and it will give you a better feeling about yourself . ’ |
| 11 | They will do better either to abstain from voting , or to vote with management as a low cost ‘ rule of thumb ’ . |
| 12 | Any so-called ‘ saving ’ to the NHS of products manufactured by British companies would have to be paid for five fold by the British companies , and would show up five fold in our balance of payments , and would mean significant loss in taxation to the British Treasury . |
| 13 | Ideally , we should feel as comfortable working with logged GNP per capita or life expectancy cubed as we feel about working with the raw numbers . |
| 14 | Indeed , if we want a puritan poet at that time , we would do far better to turn to that good , upright Anglican priest George Herbert , than we would to John Milton . |
| 15 | He ended by writing twenty-five pages , some of which he read to Elinor late one night , There were also two longish poems in free verse , which he did n't yet feel quite ready to expose to the world . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 17 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 18 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 19 | I know it must sound terribly irresponsible to get into this position but , truthfully , it 's a case of of ‘ heart ruling head ’ . ’ |
| 20 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 21 | Words of English and other foreign origin will also become more difficult to recognise by the decision to remove the hyphen from many compound words . |
| 22 | For example , you begin to ask yourself what would you see as important to accomplish in the next six months , the next 12 months and maybe the next couple of years . |
| 23 | Great for storing fruit or veg , this pair of silver-coloured metal baskets would look equally good crammed with toiletries . |
| 24 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 25 | We can see how this occurred in our first two case studies . |
| 26 | Such regularly superimposed implications can then become quite hard to disentangle from sentence or literal meaning ; in order to prise them apart , the theorist has to construct or observe contexts in which the usual pragmatic implications do not hold . |
| 27 | He said no , aye , you ca n't see where that come from |
| 28 | Now we ca n't let you go upstairs but later on you 'll see the room up above here and you can see where that goes to . |
| 29 | You can see why this appeals to actors . |
| 30 | How susceptible my brother would be to whatever vibes I could send out was a question I did n't like too much to think about , given the state of his head , but I had to do something . |