Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think so and I I find it difficult to believe and disappointing to believe that as many man are would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 3 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 4 | Occupational therapists seem to be rare in their concentration on what people can do rather than what they are unable to do . |
| 5 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |
| 6 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 7 | It shows what the writer can do rather than what he thinks . |
| 8 | As far as the grades allotted to the candidates are concerned , a conscientious and uninterested student may very well do better than one who is imaginative and perhaps wayward . |
| 9 | Of course , there are one or two exceptions to the no talking or moving yourself ‘ rule ’ : do speak up if something your partner is doing is hurting , or if you feel cold or uncomfortable in any way . |
| 10 | The definitional question , of what natural selection is , can be answered by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its occurrence , namely hereditary variation that is causally relevant to reproductive success thanks to organism-environment interactions ; it can , then , be answered without begging in advance of empirical inquiry all those further questions as to whether these conditions are ever met : whether , that is , any natural selection exists ; and , if so , how it is distributed , what it can do now and what it has been responsible for in the past . |
| 11 | Moreover , erm the world can be broken down into elements , into simples , which you can perceive or grasp conceptually as what they are quite independently of the system as a whole to which they belong . |
| 12 | But seriously I 'm against this budget because of what is , what it does n't contain rather than what it does contain . |
| 13 | Julian really made me laugh though cos I he was just fine was n't he ? |
| 14 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 15 | that bastard , did n't know where he was gon na , he was indicating but I did n't know whether he was gon na just go on or what he was gon na do . |
| 16 | And I would go in and I I never said nothing to him at first did I ? but I just could n't take it any more . |
| 17 | Ho how far have you got ta go over before you you get a you 'll get a company car at B T ? |
| 18 | A a as I say it do it does go quickly when you you know , work , as I say , you got the dogs in the morning , the dogs in the evening and you got to feed them and |
| 19 | they do n't have a , you know , kind of computer based mailing list that they can print out or something you know ? |
| 20 | Not only should parents pay when and what they could , and so inhibit the assumption of paternal responsibility by the State . |
| 21 | And there was nothing for my father had a few drinks you know and he 'd come home and he he 'd just come he 'd he 'd b be whistling coming up the street you know . |
| 22 | I sa , as I say , I met this morning with the three members from Potter Street erm we do have various alternative proposals for sa ways forward should the village back out and what I can say to you at this stage is that we have another meeting scheduled for next week , we will be meeting with the Resident 's Associations keeping them fully informed erm we will ensure that the letter goes back to Mrs who and the other Resident 's Associations who expressed concern there and that we will be taking , I hope , I hope because I 'm gon na have to say if Woolwich back out we 're going out we 're going have to move very fast and do some quite erm in-depth work . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector . |
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| 25 | The trouble was , for the life of him , he could not imagine where or what it might be . |