Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 2 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 3 | A rather similar , and equally mistaken , line of thought which might appeal is as follows . |
| 4 | What we do know is that assessed behaviour is better ( quantity/quality ) than non-assessed behaviour . |
| 5 | A final analysis problem that we will consider is that mentioned at the end of Chapter 8 — how to deal with syllabic consonants . |
| 6 | ‘ The precept of dying should be part of the studies of those that live in health ; all that a sick or dying man can do is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired . ’ |
| 7 | The minimum amendment that the tenant would expect is as follows : |
| 8 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 9 | Under such an arrangement the electoral system in East Germany would have been that used in March for the elections to the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament — see pp. 37300-02 ) . |
| 10 | In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave . |
| 11 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 12 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 13 | By the time you read this , the IBM PC 's 10th birthday will have been and gone . |
| 14 | By that time , we thought , he must have been and gone again . |
| 15 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 16 | I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back . |
| 17 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 18 | She lunged forward at him , striking her talons on the bars where his face might have been and crashing her beak thunderously down . |
| 19 | The evaluators found that the guide was less well used that it might have been and consider ways in which a guide might fit into the ‘ socially-oriented ’ structure of the training year . |
| 20 | And so might his son have been and remained , with only a duchy to administer , but a kingdom was a different thing . |
| 21 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |
| 22 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 23 | The constituent parts of a top-quality coffin of the period would have been as follows : a 1½-inch inner elm coffin with recessed lid , lined and covered with cambric — no depositum plate ; a lead shell of five pounds — i.e. five pounds ' weight per square foot — diapered and with lead depositum plate ; an outer case of 1½-inch elm or oak , padded and covered with rich scarlet Genoese or black Utrecht velvet ; four pairs of gilt grip-plates and grips ; two rows round of gilt-headed upholstery nails ; and escutcheons , lid motifs and brass or lead depositum plate . |
| 24 | If X had borrowed the money from the trust and paid interest on it at 10 per cent , then the position would have been as follows . |
| 25 | Some of those who attacked ministers ' devotion to the ‘ social gospel ’ were attacking a penchant for education bills , county council elections and slum clearance , but they would not have been as upset by a renewed campaign for disestablishment , which , no less than educational reform , could not be achieved without political action . |
| 26 | William of Orange , whatever his initial intentions might have been when coming to England , was now determined to obtain the English Crown for himself , and he secured James 's second , and this time enforced , removal from his Kingdom on 23 December . |
| 27 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 28 | One particular exception which may well apply is that contained in sections 8 of the Factors Act and 24 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 29 | An equally crucial ( though much less often discussed ) area in which errors can arise is that relating to the interview itself — to the content of the schedule and the measurement and/or classification of the resulting data . |