Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He also went along with the Bowlby theory to the extent of discouraging mothers from working : ‘ the extra money she might earn or the satisfaction she might receive is not so important after all . ’
2 Because if I do n't escape , if something dreadful happened , I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this had n't happened was not the person I now want to be .
3 yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before
4 If the person whose liberty is interfered with does not know that the person who constrains him is a constable and believes that he is under attack , he will have the defence that , since he acted in self defence , he committed no assault .
5 ‘ You must know that the Queen herself would hardly be about , at this time in the morning , ’ Morton said with a smile .
6 The hon. Gentleman will probably know that the authorities who deal with Westminster Hall do not consider that the use that he has suggested for it would be appropriate ; nor , I think , would the vast majority of hon. Members .
7 And they did not know that the portion which ebbed , never to flow again , made its way to an account in Hertford town , where Sir George Beador also banked .
8 Do you know that the drink they call k'miss is actually fermented mare 's milk ?
9 For instance , did you know that the guy who bought up all the land around your place has gone bust ? ’
10 Did you know that the people who sell the milk , the dairies that sell a bring it round to you did you know , not many people know this !
11 The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information .
12 But we must also recognise that the assessment which British Rail has carried out is deeply inadequate .
13 ‘ Teachers should recognise that the values they reflect are most powerfully expressed by how they relate to learners ; in how they talk and communicate ; in how they share knowledge , skills and ideas : and in the expectations they indicate to the learner , ’ suggested the council .
14 Translation here must be indeterminate because no amount of evidence will guarantee that the translation we offer will be uniquely correct .
15 If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky .
16 Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know .
17 This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again .
18 Well we do n't know cos the day we moved in
19 I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class .
20 If not , let me know because the copy you loaned me has been returned .
21 He could do nothing but wait while the procedure which he had initiated for excommunicating the king if he refused to restore his rights and revenues crawled towards its conclusion .
22 For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me .
23 ‘ I do n't know whether the man I saw was a gardener , ’ said Peggy , shaking her head .
24 If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ?
25 I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data .
26 ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . "
27 The strength of this xenophobia is the fear of the unknown , of the darkness into which we may fall when the landmarks which seem to provide an objective , a permanent , a positive delimitation of our belonging together , disappear .
28 Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is , generally speaking , no excuse for using such dangerous equipment .
29 I do n't think that Simon 's character is a very realistic one as I do n't think that a boy his age could be as philosophical and perfect as he is .
30 First , I do not understand how anyone can possibly think that a menu which features one fat-laden course after another — foie gras , creamy soup , fat-wrapped lamb , pan-fried potatoes , cheese and more cream in the mousse — is a well-planned menu .
  Next page