Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level control built into the transmitter can help to reduce this effect , but can rarely eliminate it without compromising the output level . |
| 2 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 3 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 4 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 5 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 6 | I 'd better do something about improving it . |
| 7 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
| 8 | It was a disappointing night for Swindon Town too … they could only draw nil-nil against struggling Birmingham in the league … |
| 9 | If because risk had not passed to the buyer , the seller has to bear the loss , this does not necessarily excuse him from performing the contract . |
| 10 | It can only propagate itself by shedding the light of its sympathy literally ; by learning to love common people and common things , to feel common interests . |
| 11 | He nodded , the merest inclination of the head , to say , well , he did n't necessarily commit himself to agreeing but that he was n't ruling it out as a might-have-been either . |
| 12 | The Kilns venture was highly unusual , and the Lewis brothers knew that they could only afford it by taking the great risk of throwing in their lot together ; in the event the purchase price was lowered to £3,300 . |
| 13 | It can only obtain it by eating animal proteins . |
| 14 | See people did n't have cars , and if it was now , they could only help me by bringing a horse to meet me or erm or a tractor if they half way . |
| 15 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 16 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 17 | Erm right , well we 've got the lights down , we 'll perhaps er use some of the slides er later , but er if I can just introduce myself by saying that some of you will already know Chris , this is the er nature of our business . |
| 18 | Lexicographers will normally confine themselves to working on about 1000 of these . |
| 19 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 20 | You ca n't just accuse me without backing that accusation up . |
| 21 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 22 | If you are not a bee-keeper , you may easily become one by amassing herbs beloved by bees and/or butterflies ; many herbs are bee plants such as goldenrod , mullein , honeysuckle , thyme , catmint and bergamot . |
| 23 | If she could just keep them from swimming out of focus … |
| 24 | As Professor Housman used to say , ‘ Stand on a barrel in the streets of Baghdad and say twice two are four and ginger is hot in the mouth and therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God , and it is unlikely that anyone would question your reasoning ; but if he should be bold enough to do so , you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog . ’ |
| 25 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 26 | Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’ |
| 27 | You will easily spot them by carrying out the title/verso exercise . |
| 28 | We owe them a great deal and can best repay them by finding a political solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Equally , at some point before delivery , the seller will require the scale to rise to 100 per cent , because he will by then have completed the products ready for delivery , and cancellation will no longer relieve him from incurring the costs associated with performing the contract . |
| 30 | He could scarcely help himself in choosing this physical format . |