Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 2 | We 'd rather make money . ’ |
| 3 | Some of these changes may eventually affect institutions comprising the monetary sector . |
| 4 | Indeed , as our data on adult-pupil ratios showed , increasing the number of adults in a classroom can sometimes detrimentally affect children 's task-related behaviour . |
| 5 | RANGERS , having won the Battle of Britain by beating Leeds to progress to the Champions League , begin their quest to successfully invade Europe against Marseille at Ibrox tonight . |
| 6 | He does a little Dirty Dancing with Demi Moore in the absurd phallic pottery scene . |
| 7 | Cisapride is also thought to exert an inhibitory effect on the possum sphincter of oddi , and might thereby enhance bile flow into the duodenum . |
| 8 | Since a large fraction of the stock market is held by pension funds and insurance companies which will eventually make payments to workers , monopoly profits may indirectly pay income to some relatively poor people . |
| 9 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 10 | The Government department concerned for dishing out the dosh in these matters must presumably think croquet is a corporate hospitality device . |
| 11 | Derick Wilson , the Labour councillor who lobbied fellow members to reject the licencing restrictions , claims that they would badly damage Edinburgh 's tourism image . |
| 12 | It is this kind of detailed information which is needed in order to properly answer questions one and two . |
| 13 | I 'd rather eat loads and at least then I wo n't look so lanky ! |
| 14 | He was about to add that he was supposed to be coming to dinner at her flat very soon , then wondered if that was still on , since he had been invited by Alexandra who presumably would now rather eat maggots than go anywhere with him . |
| 15 | I 've done various things on my computer today and I can successfully make ASCII files . |
| 16 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 17 | It would effectively grant car makers such as Ford , BMW and Rover a monopoly in such after-sales parts , although the plans do not apply to mechanical products such as gearboxes and engine parts . |
| 18 | So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings . |
| 19 | Teacher : How much will this little plant need ? |
| 20 | The signing of a confidentiality agreement imposes a significant moral and to some extent legal hurdle on potential purchasers and should therefore effectively restrict disclosure to genuinely interested parties . |
| 21 | SIS will also be covering Kelso , Newbury and greyhound racing from Bristol so the need to give punters the opportunity to additionally sample delights from the orient hardly seems necessary . |
| 22 | I says well we , we put erm a mailshot out for four hundred and ninety nine pound , cos the software and all the re-programming involved , I says Ford Communications followed it up , you know , they put a mailshot out for two hundred and ninety nine pound all in , oh he says I think I 'd rather prefer G P T to them |
| 23 | The only tasks where high success rates were obtained were those where the pupil can effectively treat decimals as whole numbers . |
| 24 | Clinical trials have shown nicotine replacement therapy is the only treatment which can effectively treat tobacco dependence . |
| 25 | In this real world context , which will powerfully affect Britain , Mr Smith 's ‘ luvvie ’ proposals are about as useful as a powder puff to a man with chronic heart disease . |
| 26 | One of the French girls at her Swiss boarding school had told her that boys liked a girl to have a ‘ poitrine ’ and they became very excited when they touched a girl 's breast ; this , she had maintained , explained the fashion for dresses which made a girl look flat-chested — so that as many as possible would not inflame men 's passions and would thereby remain virgins . |
| 27 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 28 | These could presumably include methods not involving the use of letters rogatory at all , though given the legal traditions of the region such radicalism seems unlikely . |
| 29 | He 'd rather shave shop windows clean |
| 30 | That first modest trickle would soon become a flood and Guinness , fuelled by its reputation and success in Ireland , would eventually need ships of its own solely for the purpose of handling Guinness exports . |