Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept the fact that some buyers will inevitably respond negatively , but be confident that more will buy than if no close had been used . |
| 2 | But we do know that while the votes were being counted Her Indoors was in the company of a notorious Tory wet and dissident . |
| 3 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 4 | Does he know that since the Chancellor and the Prime Minister came to office , some 30,000 jobs , on average , have been lost every working day ? |
| 5 | You may know that after a long legislative battle the new Broadcasting Act became law on 1 January 1991 and restored freedom for such programmes , including direct evangelism , which had previously been lost . |
| 6 | Nor could those people know that after the combat generals had moved further East into Russia that their authority over the civilian population would fall to the hands of Erich Koch , drafted to Kiev to head the Reichskommissariat . |
| 7 | You may also know that before the general election intervened , the Commons Welsh Affairs Select Committee launched a study into the planning performance of councils in Wales . |
| 8 | I do know that when a marriage , or a circumcision , or any other outstanding function took place — including meetings and large birthday parties — our big room was the venue . |
| 9 | Do you know that if a dog licks their urine , it can catch something called leptospirosis , which is very , very dangerous . ’ |
| 10 | Did you know that if a man |
| 11 | You 'd know that if the hairdresser came how they want it styled . |
| 12 | We hope that it will never occur again , but if it does , may we have clear guidance so that those outside the House will know that if the police warn that it is unsafe to come into the House the Division either will or will not be extended ? |
| 13 | It may recognise that once the youngest child has left home the wife may again be able to take up gainful employment but that until that time she should be provided with a home rent free . |
| 14 | What will happen on a particular occasion we can not say , but we can predict that after a large number of photons have encountered the crystal a fraction unc will be found to have been transmitted . |
| 15 | One would predict that where a particular sibling is not willing or able to give support they are unlikely to receive it , except perhaps if they have given assistance in the past . |
| 16 | The Dutch foreign minister , Hans Van den Broek , sees it as a step back to ‘ inter-governmentalism ’ — where the European Parliament does not count and where a weakened commission can not stop little countries getting clobbered by big ones . |
| 17 | If we say we 'll wait until after the inspectors ' reports again , and then we 'll consider that , we do that any way - that 's not necessary . |
| 18 | Party leaders will wait until after the service is privatised before making specific spending promises . |
| 19 | We may pray in particular that communities will survive and flourish and that the anger and depression caused by the announcements will be healed . |
| 20 | It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) . |
| 21 | You might think that since the world stays just as nice , we could as well regard Tit for Tat as an ESS . |
| 22 | There 's one parametric control and one pickup and almost anyone from a distance would think that where the pickup is positioned is a soundhole , but the weight of it soon tells you it 's not hollow ! ’ |
| 23 | Yes , I would think that if a person had a normal personality , if the interaction between the in institution and the personality was normal , you 'd expect their interaction with other people to be normal . |
| 24 | But it includes the causal theory as a special case , since we might think that if the fact that p does cause a 's belief that p , then the two subjunctive conditionals will be true ( but not vice versa ) . |
| 25 | Secondly , I heard what the hon. Gentleman said about the Christmas bonus , but many other people would think that if the relevant sums of money were available — and they would be quite substantial — they should be directed to the less well-off pensioners . |
| 26 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |
| 27 | One may think that as the ethical equality of human beings comes to be recognized in our society , the masculine nature of their religion will become an ever more pressing question for Christians . |
| 28 | The Elton Report recommends that if a pupil is to be readmitted to school after an indefinite period of exclusion , the school should ensure that before the pupil is allowed to return his/her parent signs an agreement in which the terms of the pupil 's readmission have been spelt out . |
| 29 | Will the Minister ensure that before the review is completed we shall be able to have adequate information so that we can determine the implications for the various areas and for particular bases which are under threat ? |
| 30 | It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good . |