Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the determination of capacity to consent or to withhold consent is not made by the patient , but by those treating him . |
| 2 | This is a misconception because the next of kin has no legal right either to consent or to refuse consent . |
| 3 | That made sense , I thought ; and I was n't sure which I would choose , to go or to stay , if Dee-Dee was right . |
| 4 | The slave was hovering behind Jehana , unsure whether to go or to stay . |
| 5 | Bit by bit , the treasurer 's range of choice has widened beyond the basic questions of whether or not to borrow or to raise equity capital . |
| 6 | What did you do to let the thoughts remain or to rid yourself of them ? |
| 7 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 9 | It is an offence to demolish or to alter a listed building unless listed building consent has been obtained . |
| 10 | The conventions were changing , assumptions were changing , though not everybody was to enjoy or to survive the metamorphosis , the plunge , the leap into water or air ; change is painful , transition is painful , and the social world had not yet reached a stage which could have greeted as conventional , precisely , even at a much-mixed , smart , Bohemian-flavoured cosmopolitan New Year 's Eve party , the excessively raised voices of two journalist-historians , once friends and allies and fellow contributors to the current of immortal truth and to the New Statesman , now locked in bitter dispute about that ghastly , trailing decaying albatross-corpse of the Left , Public Ownership and Clause 4 : ‘ You squint-eyed git , you treacherous , turncoat , lying , statistic-faking git , ’ shouted Giles , the man of the Left , who appeared to be losing the argument , his voice rising above the more amiable party hubbub in a shriek of despair , a shriek that summoned to his side Liz Headleand , with Kate Armstrong and Ivan Warner in quick attendance . |
| 11 | ‘ I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh or to move their mind with tickling laxity and affect them as a stage player used to do , instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God . ’ |
| 12 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 13 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 14 | 9.3 Covenants relating to adjoining Premises Nothing contained in or implied by this Lease shall give the Tenant the benefit of or the right to enforce or to prevent the release or modification of any covenant agreement or condition entered into by any tenant of the Landlord in respect of any property not comprised in this Lease Tenants have very limited rights to enforce covenants against each other . |
| 15 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 16 | You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered . |
| 17 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 18 | Once you 've decided whether you need to paint or to draw , the amount you spend depends on four main questions : |
| 19 | Where a purchase of licensed premises was made subject to the purchaser obtaining a transfer of the certificate , and the purchaser undertook to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and the transfer was refused by the licensing court , and the purchaser refused to appeal or to concur in an appeal against the refusal , it was held that he had failed to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and was found liable in damages to the seller : Skinner v. Breslin ( 1905 ) 13 S.L.T. 91 ; cf. |
| 20 | Regulations now in force allow a private limited company to be formed or to operate with only one member ( p 110 ) . |
| 21 | The major amendments are : to s 1 , CA 1985 to allow a private limited company to be formed or to operate with only one member ; to s 24 , CA 1985 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies ( so , if a company becomes a single member company as a result , say , of the transfer of the shares of one of two members to the other , the sole member will not lose the benefit of limited liability as could formerly be the case ) ; to s 122(1) ( e ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 so that it no longer applies to private limited companies . |
| 22 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 23 | 9 Make the decision to entertain a rational one and ensure that you have something useful to impart or to discuss . |
| 24 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 25 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 26 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 27 | That sort of relationship would be very difficult to sustain or to generalize beyond one or two individuals . |
| 28 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 29 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 30 | ‘ They [ the inspectors ] should be fully in a position to satisfy themselves that there is nothing , nothing , hidden or to hide , ’ Mr de Klerk told a special session of parliament . |