Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyone can stay on if they want ca n't they ? |
| 32 | Miss X and her fiance could not afford to buy another property , so she asked Glasgow District Council to repurchase the house so that her parents could stay on as tenants . |
| 33 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 34 | My lips are often chapped and sore , which makes it difficult to apply lipstick as it wo n't stay on and looks unpleasant . |
| 35 | If you did n't get the if you did n't pass the class exam you could stay on and try again . |
| 36 | ‘ Why do n't you stay on and have dinner with us ? — at my parents ’ place ? ’ |
| 37 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 38 | But at some times your dilemma as a manager you say think well can he just stay on and nick us a goal knowing full well that if if he has he comes off it makes them fairly lightweight . |
| 39 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 40 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
| 41 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 42 | To see that there is a take up of the car contract hire scheme , it constantly has to be held , or kept unde , the scheme has to be kept under review , to make sure that it is attractive and it is what er , the employees want to see , and would prefer rather than an alternate means of transport . |
| 43 | nothing happy , you ju just to stand there , you ca n't laugh properly and you ca n't do this , and you ca n't do this , it 's worse |
| 44 | He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects , in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding . |
| 45 | All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment . |
| 46 | Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence . |
| 47 | Hence , societies ' encouragement of early marriage as a step towards achievement of a large family may hinder rather than aid attainment of family size goals . |
| 48 | In other words the slope will dip rather than rise while you continue to knit at the centre . |
| 49 | Do n't plough on until you 've picked up supplies . |
| 50 | Obviously , they had made up their minds that they would have to make us eat rather than tell their bosses what had happened . |
| 51 | In other words , no one working with a computer should be forced into a straightjacket of usage : IT should liberate rather than restrict , and the best applications are those in which the uses are almost boundless . |
| 52 | By the very definition of the system , the detailed direction of the educational programmes would evolve rather than be rigidly pre-established , but some of the broad areas which may attract attention are the educational development of co-operatives , leadership development , community economics , and issues of environmental health and the management of the natural environment . |
| 53 | In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this . |
| 54 | William Beveridge showed more appreciation of the problems posed by the burden of women 's household tasks when he stated that the ‘ housewife 's job , with a large family is frankly impossible and will remain so unless some of what has now to be done separately in every home can be done economically outside the home ’ ( although he never failed to assume that the final responsibility for domestic work rested with women ) . |
| 55 | Hence people who enter the premises as lawful visitors may not remain so if they step outside of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 56 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 57 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 58 | So prices are inflated and will remain so until there is a steady flow of imported goods . |
| 59 | These universally fatal chronic brain infections of mammals ( including humans ) are untreatable and will remain so until more is known about this unique agent . |
| 60 | At present the use of colonic motility tests in clinical practice is limited and will remain so until normal ranges for colonic pressures can be defined and more effective treatments for the various motility disorders identified . |