Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 2 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 3 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 4 | One thing I distinctly remember about watching that kestrel hover happened on a clear blue day when I 'd managed to position myself practically underneath the bird . |
| 5 | This portable version allows her out of home or hospital for a few hours … but for most of her life she must stay connected to a larger non-stop supply . |
| 6 | I , I and you could 've done with a queen . |
| 7 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 8 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 9 | Oh God , I would 've crawled into a hole for the rest of my life . |
| 10 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 11 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 12 | She will feel accepted as a member of the ward team and will be more ready to learn . |
| 13 | Do n't feel restricted to a circle if you want to make a garland design , as it can easily be manoeuvred into other shapes . |
| 14 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 15 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 16 | But sometimes the sciatic nerve can become irritated by a lack of blood supply . |
| 17 | The original may become contaminated with a computer " virus " . |
| 18 | Consequently , a semantic theory can become plagued by a proliferation of hypothetical senses and internal contradictions in ways we shall spell out below . |
| 19 | If all scientists were and remained normal scientists then a particular science would become trapped in a single paradigm and would never progress beyond it . |
| 20 | His only fear is the region could become trapped in a cycle of boom and bust . |
| 21 | But there is a danger that education might become confined within a strictly utilitarian approach that neglects literature , the arts and social sciences . |
| 22 | Yet it is precisely that kind of issue that the coalition would like addressed in a coherent and collaborative fashion . |
| 23 | In terms of the concepts outlined above we could express Marx 's views thus : the economic class of proletarians ( propertyless sellers of labour power ) will necessarily become increasingly homogeneous in respect of income levels and conditions of life and work ; this will result in the increasing ‘ non-pertinence ’ of social collectivities based on branch of industry , religion , nationality , sex etc. , and the increasing pertinence of the social collectivity coterminous with the proletariat itself ; eventually as a result of the process of struggle this social collectivity will become organised into a corporate body — the trade union movement — and a political force : the communist movement or party . |
| 24 | They need to ensure that staff stay within the national health service and do not become disillusioned by a lack of educational opportunity and thus career advancement . |
| 25 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 26 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 27 | When TR2 is conducting its collector voltage will be approximately zero and the l.e.d. , D3 , will become illuminated as a consequence . |
| 28 | Having accepted that deviance can become amplified through a positive feedback mechanism , and that the initial acts of deviance on which the system feeds are often quite minor , only a relatively weak explanation of the original deviance is called for . |
| 29 | In the first , there are protein molecules in the cell which bind specifically to X. Consequently , when an X molecule passes randomly into a cell , it may become bound to a protein , which is far too large to pass through the membrane . |
| 30 | Publishers ' casings are not designed for library use , and if subjected to a heavy rate of issues they may become damaged within a year or two of purchase . |