Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 2 | The results should assist in anticipating and understanding the implications of the rating reforms due in April 1990 . |
| 3 | ‘ Officials must concentrate on popularising and organising the game and not on personal relations and politics to stay in power . |
| 4 | Accordingly , we shall now concentrate on describing and analysing the developments flowing from Haycocks I that have taken place in the past three years . |
| 5 | There are juniors who wo n't even speak without nodding and asking the parents permission . |
| 6 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Instead their reports should stick to investigating and reporting the facts , he told the MPs ' inquiry into the methods of company investigations . |
| 8 | From this they would graduate to reading and summarising the records of past negotiations and finally to preparing detailed memoranda on various aspects of French foreign policy . |
| 9 | The latter will end by confirming or rejecting the original theory , but humans , being what they are , will usually manage to prove themselves right and join some kind of inquisition to make sure everyone else is proved right too . |
| 10 | DEC says it wo n't shy from promoting and advertising the add-on to potential customers , as it believes large corporates and telecommunications firms , some which specify SVR4 in any case , are already interested in the personality . |
| 11 | You could start by adapting and changing the ones shown here . |
| 12 | The long term answer does not lie in proving or disproving the validity of alternative allergy tests . |