Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was felt that central government was at the core of many of the problems , but also to be considered was the mis-management of the NIHE Board and their failure to properly consult and allow the full participation of the tenants themselves , who more often than not are the best experts needed .
2 Cable said yesterday the company would eventually upgrade and operate the long distance and international communications systems .
3 Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ?
4 Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) .
5 If punishment is to be inflicted , it is surely better that the punishment should directly benefit the victim or society than that it should merely hurt or restrict the offender .
6 It is important when collecting soil to avoid getting any old leaves or weeds mixed in with it , as these will only decompose and foul the water .
7 It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " .
8 Teachers will apparently expect and condone a certain amount of aggressive behaviour from boys , and even sexual harassment towards the girls , as both Jones ( 1985 ) and Mahoney ( 1985 ) would concur ; but over-exaggeration of this ‘ machismo ’ of course is played out in terms of violence and destructive behaviour , which no teacher wants .
9 Only such a crisis , of almost inconceivably devastating proportions — such as might follow a major war — could so undermine and destroy the existing pluralist political structures that a new form of fascist-style charismatic leadership might appear to sizeable proportions of the population to be a viable and attractive solution .
10 As a result , powerful database software packages have emerged that can make these small single user machines act like large filing cabinets which can instantaneously search or reorganise a file with literally the touch of a button .
11 2.4 " Common Parts " means any malls and other pedestrian ways concourses and circulation areas staircases escalators ramps and lifts service roads loading bays forecourts and other ways and areas in the Centre which are from time to time during the Term provided by the Landlord for common use by customers frequenting the Centre and by the Tenants and the occupiers of the Centre or persons expressly or by implication authorised by them Although it is highly unlikely that the landlord would so amend or alter the common parts to make it impossible for the tenant to carry on its business , the following additional wording may be considered :
12 So how do you try a new song because you said that you wo n't necessarily try and do a song out on stage .
13 To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals .
14 Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down .
15 and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and
16 A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains them and to which the user has appropriate access privileges .
17 A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a package to which the user has appropriate access rights .
18 A user can only enter or retrieve a module by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains it and to which the user has appropriate access privileges .
19 In other words , if you need to access text and images together , CD-ROM can only retrieve and display the text and then subsequently address the related image data .
20 Me mother er and me father they er me mother used to go to picture and then er when the cur and then me me dad did n't like pictures so he used to always meet me mother outside and then they 'd perhaps go and have a little drink together and a walk .
21 Well I 'll perhaps go and have a bath then .
22 ‘ As Luke wo n't be back in the office until around three o'clock , and as the party 's at such short notice , I 'd better go and set the ball rolling . ’
23 Well I 'd better go and lock the door .
24 Talking of work , I 'd better go and do the moules marinières — or do you want me to tell you about the exhibition ?
25 Oh well I 'd better go and do the dishes I think .
26 Well you 'd better go and do the paying this week then then you can do the tape while you 're paying ca n't you ?
27 ‘ But you 'd better go and check the car , or they 'll have it stripped . ’
28 I think I 'd better go and check the chicken now .
29 He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account !
30 Oh I better go and check the sausages .
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