Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 2 | This is important for the biologizing of consciousness : consciousness will evolve only if it improves the survival chances of creatures endowed with it ; and it will have survival value only if it accurately reports what is actually ‘ there ’ . |
| 3 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 4 | It is hardly likely that a vicious thug will wait politely while we ring the police . |
| 5 | The manufacturers recognised that the camcorders would not catch on unless they adopted a common format allowing video enthusiasts to record and play back tapes on different models of machine , The standard the companies agreed is flexible in that it leaves room for technical developments before the camcorders go on sale , but is tight enough to ensure that all camcorders will eventually be compatible . |
| 6 | As soon as we receive your Grand Prize Certificate of Eligibility , we 'll enter your numbers in the Draw , and we 'll let you know promptly if you win a prize . |
| 7 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 8 | ‘ You would know immediately if you heard a Delta song . |
| 9 | Presum-ably , just like brother Gary , Wayne will hang around until he sees an opportunity to score . |
| 10 | Nor did Marian know why but she felt a decided unwillingness to open the sack . |
| 11 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 12 | Let the hand spring away as it touches the skin . |
| 13 | ‘ It would n't matter much because I have a reputation , one that I 'm really stretching to the full in doing a feature on sunny Spain . |
| 14 | It is true that capitalist enterprises will invest only if they expect an ‘ adequate ’ rate of return on capital . |
| 15 | In practice , of course , we would not do so unless we thought the commercial circumstances warranted it . |
| 16 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |
| 17 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 18 | A directorate and management will succeed only if they have the trust of those with whom they work — the need to develop a common involvement is important . |
| 19 | That , he says , is what the Next Steps is all about : ‘ It will succeed only if it changes the way business is done and accounted for . ’ |
| 20 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |
| 21 | They can do more when they have a mastery of Standard English because they can communicate in a wider circle both socially and geographically . |
| 22 | ‘ He says the whole army is unsettled because it 's known that Famagusta will never give up while it expects a relieving ship to arrive . |
| 23 | What do you do now when you do the what do you do then ? |
| 24 | It 'ud be worse than useless telling them she thought the Cap'n 's slave had rights , needed care and attention and … and … she 'd better speak out before they 'd a chance to ask awkward questions ! |
| 25 | If you sell farm butter and cheese instead of whole milk you can do well if you have the right market . |
| 26 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 27 | If you can also grunt loudly as you release the shot , this gives the impression to watching parents that you are putting huge amounts of effort into the event . |
| 28 | She felt her brassiere tighten uncomfortably as she heaved a vicious sigh . |
| 29 | They did n't speak again until they neared the Commemorative Hall where they came across a mobile canteen manned by the Sally Ann . |
| 30 | No parachute will deploy satisfactorily unless it has a set of equal length shroud lines of adequate length , and divided into two hanks for attachment to the harness . |