Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The snag was , she found it impossible to accept that anyone could possibly find her less than addictive . |
| 3 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 4 | We want you to know that you will always get a fair deal when you book with us . |
| 5 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 6 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 7 | , I just want you to know that I shall never change , but I also want you to allow me to come home now and again for a few days . |
| 8 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 9 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 10 | How silly I was to trust that you would always love me ! |
| 11 | We were both shocked to discover that he could neither ride nor walk , and was lying on the grass , waiting for us . |
| 12 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 13 | The present unsatisfactory state of the law relating to VAT could mean that VAT paid by the tenant may not be recoverable , and therefore the tenant should consider amending such a provision to provide that it will only pay VAT on such sums where it is first presented with a valid VAT invoice in the tenant 's name . |
| 14 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 15 | Seriously though , Fenland people are some of the nicest you could wish to meet and they will often help you if they possibly can . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't want any technical information ’ , I replied , ‘ I just need to know if it will still run on my ordinary PC with 640Kb memory ’ . |
| 17 | She would tell him anything he wanted to know if he would just let go of her , let her get away from him . |
| 18 | Telecanvassing is now up and running very efficiently in Salisbury and will continue to flourish and we will soon reap the rewards . |
| 19 | Offering small quantities would also give greater variety to people 's diets , a variety which they may be unable to obtain if they can only buy in quantity . |
| 20 | If you do not make notes your mind will have a tendency to wander and you will quickly lose the thread of the ideas with which you are trying to come to terms . |
| 21 | In all this , as in everything else in their lives , you can help them best by listening with patience and sympathy , never dismissing their anxieties — however unreasonable they may seem to be — simply by telling them not to worry because you will always see that they are all right . |
| 22 | They areby nature an easy fish to catch providing you can firstly locate them . |
| 23 | Heading up high means that it is difficult for anyone to pass since you can always bear away down on to them , forcing them to sail in your dirty wind . |
| 24 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 25 | Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days . |
| 26 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 27 | Frankly , it is not an adequate response for Labour Members to pretend that they can somehow keep the market for coal at its present level . |
| 28 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 29 | In this way we may be able to see that he would both agree and disagree with the Archbishop 's statement . |
| 30 | He urged her to acknowledge that she could quickly end the dispute by allowing it go to arbitration . |