Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 2 | When a healthy young man asks for employment and his employer wants to know whether his genotype indicates that he may die in his thirties or forties from Huntingdon 's disease , this is unfair . |
| 3 | Allow three months to see if your symptoms improve and try keeping a diary to monitor your progress . |
| 4 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 5 | For all your sound recording , take care to ensure that your microphone leads and audio connections are electrically sound and properly screened from hum pick-up , so that the signal arrives at the camcorder in the best possible condition . |
| 6 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 7 | But I only have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable if I have reason to believe quite generally that events which I have not observed are similar to events which I have observed . |
| 8 | Sometimes the Insured will allow plant to run when its condition indicates that it should be stopped for overhaul , relying on the fact that the company will pay for repairs if there is an accident . |
| 9 | The individual responsible for this unacceptable behaviour shall remain nameless protect his listening and viewing ratings suffice it to say that his name suggests that he is capable of making a big splash . |
| 10 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 11 | He knew , too , that they had always been scared by the sight or sound of the Almighty : they were ‘ sore afraid ’ , a phrase which he understood to mean that their bodies hurt because their fear was so great . |
| 12 | It is clear to me that as this only affects a small proportion of the membership and there are good strategic reasons for the larger firms to back the proposal ( eg the demise of the smaller practice ) , unless general practitioners take action now they will only have themselves to blame when their incomes fall and the value of their practices diminishes . |