Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 2 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 3 | Actions are proceedings where the object is to obtain relief against any person or to compel any person to do or abstain from doing any act ( Ord 3 , r 1 ) . |
| 4 | 1.3 The employee 's duty not to make preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left or to enable another to do so The employee can not make preparations during his employment , either during the working day or in his spare time , with a view to competing with his employer once his employment is over if such preparation may have a material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 5 | In the latter , the school which sets out to democratize education in its geographical or moral area ( that is , in a context of those who share beliefs and values ) or to enable more people to help themselves , brings with it a set of beliefs which go beyond the Plowden idea of the community making use of the physical amenities of a primary school . |
| 6 | Erm you know , almost you have to go too far or to go such er an extent it would be erm and the force simply to erm stop counter-revolution and , and to overthrow all , you know , deep seated authorities that had lasted thousands of years , I mean to , to overcome that you do need a revolution . |
| 7 | Article 1 provides that a judicial authority of a contracting State may , in civil or commercial matters , request the competent authority of another contracting State , by means of a Letter of Request , to obtain evidence or to perform some other judicial act . |
| 8 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 9 | The Scottish Office 's ‘ bridging ’ scheme , placing mid-career civil servants in company non-executive directorships , was put forward as an ideal means to broaden the skills of women in functional roles or to refresh those of women nearing the end of a career break . |
| 10 | Use the symbols > or < or to compare these numbers . |
| 11 | Update Baseline may be used in two modes : either as a means of checking which packages will be affected , in which case a single log file will be produced but the LIFESPAN database will be left unaltered ; or to implement any changes which are identified , in which case two log files will be produced , detailing the processing carried out and the approver 's involvement . |
| 12 | If users have little experience of using videocassette recorders or tape-slide equipment , a decision may have to be made on whether to ignore sources such as videocassettes or tape-slide sets which may be relevant to the database or to include such materials but ensure that help and guidance are available when the equipment is needed . |
| 13 | The ILP desire to exert influence on the rest of the Labour movement was tempered by hostility to the Communists and , above all , by an inability to compromise or to sacrifice any of the Party 's independence . |
| 14 | 7.7.6 to give notice to the Landlord immediately upon the happening of any event which might affect any insurance policy on or relating to the Premises or upon the happening of any event against which the Landlord may have insured under this Lease The following amendment should be considered : … immediately upon becoming aware of the happening of any event … 7.7.7 immediately to inform the Landlord in writing of any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue any such insurance The requirement to notify the landlord in respect of convictions should be deleted for the reason stated above . |
| 15 | I soon discovered that it 's almost impossible for anyone like myself , with normal sight and hearing , to imagine life without either sense — or to accept that , in many ways , 28-year-old Julia enjoys a nearly normal life . |
| 16 | ‘ Is our school a good school ? ’ is unlikely to draw many negative responses or to provide much insight into the sources of satisfaction or dissatisfaction . |
| 17 | Borland has no plans to downgrade its Dbase and Paradox database efforts or to encourage these database users to migrate to InterBase . |
| 18 | Then comes the expected , ‘ unless the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that his detention without being charged is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence for which he is under arrest or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 19 | If not , the suspect is to be let go , unless , once again , detention is ‘ necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence or to obtain such evidence by questioning ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 20 | The presumption is that the suspect will be released with or without bail , but it can be rebutted if the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that detention without charge is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to the offence for which the suspect has been arrested , or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ( s.37(2) ) . |
| 21 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 22 | Local authorities are no different in this respect from other large concerns , whether public or private , who must decide whether to provide all the components of their activities within their own organisations or to obtain some from outside suppliers . |
| 23 | When called as a witness Mrs Wilson said : ‘ I did n't do anything to retaliate or to provoke that attack . |
| 24 | Since large serf-owners tended not to live on their estates or to know much about rural conditions , few of the people whom the tsar had charged with thinking about emancipation had any idea of the complexities of the task . |
| 25 | You do not have to be clever , or to know all the right psychological approaches ; you just need to be kind , and to care , to become a sanity-saving safety-valve in someone else 's life . |
| 26 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's aim was not to destroy communism or to meet any other specific threat . |
| 27 | A further elaboration of this technique is the use by the respondents of computer-linked handsets that can be simply manipulated to show their response throughout the commercial : they can be asked simply to indicate an overall favourable or unfavourable response or to reflect some more specific description of the film — ‘ exciting ’ , ‘ funny ’ , ‘ tasteful ’ , etc . |
| 28 | I can see no ground whatever , on the face of the statute , why in a section 8(2) case the driver should be invited to state whether he prefers to give blood or urine or to state any reasons for his preference . |
| 29 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 30 | In those circumstances it is unnecessary for me to discuss the rival contentions of fact or to reach any conclusion upon whether , if Winchester had been enabled to make representations before 30 October , those representations would have made any difference . |