Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he does know is that at least some of the whales seem to have started making Puget Sound their regular summer feeding ground . |
| 2 | What we do know is that in the autumn of 1869 Nietzsche was contemplating a large book , but one of a different kind . |
| 3 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 4 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 5 | One key fact they should remember is that outside the United States , by far the largest amount of their prize money comes from events organised and funded by national associations which , in turn , are part of the ITF . |
| 6 | What we can now see is that for the first timefor a very long epriod we have inflation at a ver low level and the clear prospect of growth without inflationary difficulties . |
| 7 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 8 | One problem that you may meet is that on some boards , the Dabs board is one , both processor and coprocessor sockets are identical . |
| 9 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |
| 10 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 11 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 12 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 13 | But the assumption must have been that before nineteen forty nine there was a lot of that going on |
| 14 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 15 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 16 | A judge should be obliged when passing sentence to state what the sentence would have been but for the plea of guilty . |
| 17 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 18 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 19 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 20 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 21 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 22 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 23 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 24 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 25 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 26 | In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded . |
| 27 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 28 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 29 | The second point I would make is as to timing . |
| 30 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |