Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 2 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 3 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 4 | A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another . |
| 5 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 6 | Some clients may feel that no-one can know or therefore write about their company as well as they can . |
| 7 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 8 | A little sick or badly sick , sick with something you can catch or not catch ? ’ |
| 9 | This duty also prevents an employee from taking advantage of any approach which is initiated by a customer or supplier even though the employee did not seek or even encourage it , as happened in Sanders ' case . |
| 10 | ( i.e. does it manufacture or just buy in and sell ? ) |
| 11 | I could ABAB ABAB or even ABAB CDCD . |
| 12 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah but you do n't need that anyway do you ? |
| 14 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 15 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 16 | You 've got to live in the moment and the way to do that is to think they do n't know and really enjoy it . |
| 17 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 18 | In defensive mood , and not with complete truth , Dostoevsky wrote to Katkov : ‘ I do not know and never have known either Nechaev or Ivanov , or the circumstances of the murder , except from the newspapers . |
| 19 | Whereas comedy can enable us to know the world better , stories of mystery and horror insist on all we can not know and therefore increase our fear of a disordered , malefic universe . |
| 20 | It 's better to admit that you do n't know and then go away to find out the answer , than to make up an answer that is not true ! |
| 21 | An enormous empty black container broods ominously behind the ‘ jelly stack ’ , the ‘ black box ’ or ‘ abyss ’ into which ‘ those who are greedy for excess will fall and finally perish ’ . |
| 22 | If the money supply is not also falling at the same rate , interest rates will fall and so encourage new investment . |
| 23 | We should take it as settled that drivers are liable only for such damage as has been explicitly stipulated in clear statutes , so that drivers and potential victims can insure and otherwise plan their affairs accordingly . |
| 24 | It does mean that the way in which the case has been handled , the way in which it 's been approached , the cooperation between various departments in a particular office , has been done properly , and if the client has the opportunity of winning , he will win and not lose by sloppy work in his solicitor 's office . |
| 25 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 26 | We have to somehow recognise and then become free of that overwhelming fear of being engulfed by the demands and powerful feelings in some clients and their families . |
| 27 | Warm odours such as floral or woody scents will make people linger and perhaps buy more . |
| 28 | It may be that we must wait until all has been answered before hoping for enlightenment . |
| 29 | ‘ I was mainly concerned with making something that children could enjoy and not feel that this was a special programme for them , avoiding all the twee and awful things people normally put into children 's programmes . |
| 30 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |