Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well we we often had people coming and asking to use our telephone , because either the telephones were erm all out of order , or you could only dial for emergencies .
2 911 is the number you would dial for emergency in America hence the name of the program .
3 A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail .
4 He thought that architects should design for the new life style which was to arise , and design " for service " , making economical and logical use of space and using mechanical devices in order to provide comfort and to make housework pleasant by lightening the time and effort spent doing it ( 1934 p 32 ) .
5 ‘ I do n't design for Sarah Chester 's , ’ she retorted calmly , slipping the pages into a folder and closing it decisively .
6 Community Health Councils will remain as the link between authorities and the consumer , and the working papers mention consulting consumers in audit of services .
7 Mr Shute is assuming the chairmanship of Ross from Ross Marks , the company 's 37-year-old founder , who will remain as chairman of the consumer electronics operations and a director of the group .
8 Maurice Saatchi will remain as chairman .
9 Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ .
10 But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed .
11 Chris Patten , architect of Mr Major 's victory , will remain as party chairman despite losing his seat in Bath but will be allowed to attend Cabinet only for party political discussions .
12 Although Terminal courses would probably remain as the bulk of provision — ‘ the breadth of the base of the movement amongst ordinary folk ’ — ‘ the Tutorial Class must be the demonstration that real understanding , whatever the purpose , requires sustained effort ; and a significant expansion of activity at this level is the true index of a significant expansion of a genuinely informed public . ’ .
13 We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them .
14 But the terms of reference given to the committee were to see how A levels could be improved , in order that they should remain as ‘ standards of excellence ’ .
15 Quasi-science will remain as a perpetual epiphenomenon .
16 but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud .
17 However much , therefore , we may feel with the later Romantics that Wordsworth was ‘ a political apostate ’ , his social interests will always remain as evidence of his humanity .
18 Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate .
19 These hospitals would remain as part of the NHS , but would be given the freedom to run themselves .
20 The move follows the establishment of a branch office in Sofia earlier this month , and Frantzen will remain as head of local operations .
21 Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things .
22 Alternatively , Exminster could remain as the hospital for elderly mentally ill patients , allowing a planned closure of Digby Hospital after short-stay beds had been established in Torbay and North Devon .
23 In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks .
24 Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long .
25 Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism .
26 Now that herbs have invaded many parts of our lives , and not least our gardens , how much of this is just a fashionable " phase , and how much will remain as a permanent and essential ingredient of everyday living ?
27 Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’
28 Gorbachev , for the time being , would remain as President ; but he was to rule through a Council of State on which all the ten participating republics were represented , and management of the economy was to be entrusted to an inter-republican committee headed by the Russian prime minister Ivan Silaev .
29 That , however , is a vague remark ; and must remain as such , because the mechanism by which genes build bodies is one of the great unsolved problems of biology .
30 Thus a certain sales figure may remain as the target but the spending habits of the income group from which the sales were to come may have shifted .
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