Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury rattled on : ‘ I know he 'd rather make a statement later on and give it simultaneously to everyone . |
| 2 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 3 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 4 | On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated . |
| 5 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 6 | Yet , Sir Edmund , I am confident the assassin will eventually make a mistake . ’ |
| 7 | Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends . |
| 8 | The system will then reverse its motion and begin to contract , becoming once again a great ball of fire , and another ‘ big bang ’ will eventually trigger a new creative era . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 10 | If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments . |
| 11 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 12 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 13 | The perfumer then must skilfully build a more complicated scent by the addition of attars or essences such as patchouli , carnation and the myriad ingredients of a fine fragrance . |
| 14 | There was no reference to the key educational issue in the Queen 's speech , and Michael Stewart ( the new Secretary of State ) was obviously playing for time : ‘ I would rather wait a bit for a good comprehensive system than try to push a sham version in its place . ’ |
| 15 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 16 | Whilst Apple were undoubtedly the first to successfully market a desktop publishing system , it was Xerox who invented it , the business world tends to run on PC-type systems rather than Macintoshes . |
| 17 | Allowing such a relationship to continue will eventually strip a woman of her self-esteem , says Dr Forward . |
| 18 | The public will rarely buy a record they have never heard , particularly when it comes from a new or unknown artist . |
| 19 | To enter , just send your name and address , together with your caption and choice of video — Derby or Forest — to : I 'D RATHER WIN A VILLA VIDEO COMP , ZZAP ! . |
| 20 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 21 | The Training Trust are inviting mums and children to submit their homemade cards — and a £1 charity donation — to a competition which will eventually yield a national winner . |
| 22 | Personally I 'd rather buy a pack of cards and play the game for real , or buy one of those magazines you find on the top shelf of the newsagents . |
| 23 | Now you have to go to Liverpool and rather than go over each day and gerr a quarter , I 'd rather buy a gram and keep hold of it . |
| 24 | It is my belief that any writer , who takes their work seriously , makes it a priority and does not give up , will eventually win a measure of recognition . |
| 25 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |
| 26 | However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome . |
| 27 | I 'd much prefer a menu-driven program built into WordPerfect itself . |
| 28 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 29 | The forms of written languages undergo constant evolution — as an example , we need only compare a piece of medieval script with a modern printed newspaper . |
| 30 | ‘ Then you 'd better throw a blanket over your head , ’ he said quietly . |