Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried the Theakston 's brewed at the Masham brewery in recent weeks , and can only comment that I prefer the Gallowgate product . |
| 2 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 3 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 4 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 5 | If you liken the body to a computer for a moment , the computer can only function when it has the correct date and commands fed to it ; otherwise it refuses to work or breaks down altogether . |
| 6 | Fascinated despite herself , Fran could only stare as he pulled the shirt free from his trousers and tossed it aside , then stretched up to open the upper casement , his torso backlighted by the lamp in the room . |
| 7 | ‘ Through one acquisition or a combination of acquisitions , I would like to be in excess of $100m in revenue in Italy when we go into next year , but that will only happen if we find the right match . |
| 8 | I 'd better go before you tempt the two of us into dismantling and abusing the sacred structure of the Sixth Commandment . ’ |
| 9 | And , if we are looking at regression as a form of therapy — as , indeed we should be — the benefit can surely only come when you re-experience the previous existence for yourself ( or even when you imagine that you do ) . |
| 10 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 11 | Despite the length of one or two of the contributions of Labour Members , I do not think that they matched the significance of other speeches . |
| 12 | It must be right for auditors to audit and for regulators to regulate and I do not think that it helps the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way , as I say , to turn auditors into snoopers and narks er er and make more supine one 's er regulators . |
| 13 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 14 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 15 | Of particular interest in the light of Professor Shorter 's remarks , is the finding that many women in the survey who were not raped did not consider that they had the right to refuse sex with their husbands . |
| 16 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 17 | Madra lay next to Riven at the back , and he did not object when she piled the blankets over them both and pushed close to him . |
| 18 | The tenant should nevertheless consider whether it wishes the specified risks to include subsidence , the sprinkler system ( if any ) , aerial devices other than aircraft and impact other than road vehicles , among others . |
| 19 | A director of a life insurance company , for instance , does not guarantee that he has the skill of an actuary or a physician ’ . |
| 20 | I do not know whether I have the best answer to that , but I remind them that the Bill relates only to those utilities that have been privatised and to which a policy of independent regulators applies . |
| 21 | ‘ I do not know if they searched the balls , but they arrived at Wrexham in good order and have gone on sale , ’ said Mr Stokes . |
| 22 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 23 | It might be that they genuinely do not feel that they have the energy or even the interest to effect change in their lives . |
| 24 | I do not see any clear trace that Ben Sira had read Greek books , and I do not believe that he needed the Iliad to learn that men " sprout and fade like leaves of a tree " ( 14.18 ) . |
| 25 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 26 | Overall , even if they do get the paper they want , it does not follow that they get the political coverage they want . |
| 27 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 28 | Fabbiano would not mind if he saw the girls beginning to blend in with the guests . |
| 29 | Conservation can not work unless we have the will to make it work . |
| 30 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |