Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 2 | At the same time , old Watson understood that differences would arise between managers and managed , and a disaffected employee could do the company 's image harm in the small-town American environment of upstate New York . |
| 3 | Free trade , it was argued , would at last give effect to the natural harmony which should exist between peoples and end the artificial and destructive tradition of political and dynastic division which had hitherto kept them apart . |
| 4 | Changes in the method of resource allocation also seemed to meet criticisms that RAWP funding did not adequately compensate for workload nor reward good performance . |
| 5 | For eight hours ' sleep , I 'd knock off God and hang the frame on Jesus . |
| 6 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 7 | So the shape of those things can be very important and , if we 're going to look at those , y'know look at communication within an organisational structure we can think about communication that goes up from the bottom of the organisational structure to the top , we can look at communication that goes down , from the top of the organisation downwards and we can look at communication that goes across , okay ? |
| 8 | What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth . |
| 9 | Early on the morning of Dec. 19 Hawke announced that , at a meeting of the ALP caucus later that day , he would resign as leader and offer himself for immediate re-election to the post . |
| 10 | A tutor from the centre where the applicant has applied to study , will act as mentor and advise/assist the applicant as necessary in completing the form and preparing a supportive portfolio of documentary evidence . |
| 11 | The ants ' fluids may act as insecticides and keep ectoparasites , such as feather lice , at bay . |
| 12 | What does Mr Hattersley know about rights that sets him above the wisdom of the ages ? |
| 13 | We , in the election and we should , and we should wait for America and try and advise America a a and , and take a view , a a it oh o otherwise madness lies , if there were people who gon na make deals with bits of Russia for this grievance we 're gon na be in a terrible state . |
| 14 | Pghorbol esters such as 12- O -tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate ( TPA ) can substitute for diacylglycerol and have been used extensively as tools to investigate actions of protein kinase C. |
| 15 | Clearly they should behave with dignity and sit quietly at home waiting to die . |
| 16 | The screwworm larvae , which burrowed deep into the flesh of their animal or human hosts , had been a major problem in Central and South America until the 1950s , when the technique of releasing sterilized male flies ( which would mate with females but produce no offspring ) had brought the parasite under control . |
| 17 | Our comprehensive course will help you buy with confidence and increase your enjoyment of different wines . |
| 18 | At dawn , he would finally fall into bed and stay there the whole of the next day . |
| 19 | A basic curiosity towards diverse traditions ( a ) to appreciate and delight in diversity and know enough about different religions not to offend the susceptibilities of people , and to be able to give respect to them as persons without marginalizing their religious commitment — to be able therefore to contribute towards a harmonious society ; ( b ) to perceive the crucial area of common-ground between almost all major religious traditions , and that differences and disagreements are only meaningful against that background of what is held in common . |
| 20 | When managing a transformational change , the CEO must behave in ways that indicate commitment to the new state ; demonstrating such commitment may be a new and unfamiliar form of behavior . |
| 21 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 22 | What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea . |
| 23 | The more inelastic is demand relative to supply , the more a tax will fall on purchasers as opposed to sellers . |
| 24 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 25 | Clown Loach might also prey on eggs or fry . |
| 26 | It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the . |
| 27 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 28 | We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel . |
| 29 | Indeed Congress will concentrate on debating and deciding issues of a wide spread and common concern to all our members , such as finance , the rulebook including the structure and organization of the union , our political , economical , economic and social policies . |
| 30 | As the Italian inventor may discover , the music industry does not flourish on recordings that sound right only on headphones |