Example sentences of "[vb infin] [coord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you behaving like that to make people laugh or because it is what you honestly believe to be right . " |
| 2 | Arbitration is also the better method where points of law may arise or where extensive discovery might be needed . |
| 3 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 4 | That is not to say , however , that such moments do not exist or that they do not have a profound and often life-changing effect on the person who experiences them . |
| 5 | The fact that the Anonymous Fellowships are not run by the medical profession does not mean that they do not exist or that they do not work except for a handful of rather strange zealots . |
| 6 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 7 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 8 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 9 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 10 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 11 | They can not tell us because they do n't know and because they are campaigning for power at any cost . |
| 12 | The rest want the bomb because it is the biggest bang that money can buy and because they mistrust their neighbours . |
| 13 | If in doubt , do n't buy and if you are suspicious ring the police and give them as many details as you can . |
| 14 | The Dutch foreign minister , Hans Van den Broek , sees it as a step back to ‘ inter-governmentalism ’ — where the European Parliament does not count and where a weakened commission can not stop little countries getting clobbered by big ones . |
| 15 | We may pray in particular that communities will survive and flourish and that the anger and depression caused by the announcements will be healed . |
| 16 | The greater the distance , social , geographical and occupational , between those who are supposed to work together , the more likely it is that unhelpful stereotypes will flourish and that there will be fundamental misconceptions about others ' roles and functions . |
| 17 | Had he suspected , when he left the Venetian state , that his Copernicanism might one day bring him into confrontation with papal authority , he might have thought twice before leaving a region in which dissident scholars could flourish and where printers , for commercial reasons , were already disobeying papal rules . |
| 18 | Yeah , they like to roam about and explore and and , and er , I 'm not sure I wan na cope with litter trays for ever , would you ? |
| 19 | Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions . |
| 20 | The finished result will be a Fortran-90 mathematical library tool that NAG will likely market and that it is hoped will encourage the use of parallel machines in non-linear programming such as scheduling , planning and optimisation . |
| 21 | It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) . |
| 22 | And er er and and that that these have er substantial advantages for them and and do n't know but but there 's got to be an element of doubt . |
| 23 | Went on and on at this young lad who 'd spoken who thumped him he 'd apparently just one punch , I do n't know but but anyway all the charges have been dropped against this lad now so |
| 24 | In considering the welfare of the child , the court must not only recognise but if necessary defend the right of the child , having sufficient understanding to take an informed decision , to make his or her own choice . |
| 25 | So it all depends how you different people different personalities and that and erm right though I do n't agree with them at all what they 've done , erm as I said , If I do n't speak or if we do n't whatsit we going to ruin the whole thing we 're fighting for . |
| 26 | There was always the fear that a chain would snap or that I would step too near . |
| 27 | They embraced briefly and I heard her say quietly , ‘ Remember I shall always love you and if there 's anything I can do or that you want , do n't be afraid to come to me . ’ |
| 28 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 29 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 30 | That certainly is a very hopeful suggestion which we 're most interested in because it does look as if the P L C will succeed and if it does then we shall have our full seven million pounds . |