Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MEMBERS of Dyfed County Council 's highways and transportation committee will decide on Friday whether to continue the Sunday morning town bus service in Aberystwyth , operated on an experimental basis since last October . |
| 2 | The health authority will decide at its meeting on Friday whether to buy the two machines before April . |
| 3 | The professor seemed not to realise that she was a servant , perhaps because she was so much with the Carsons as to seem almost a member of the family . |
| 4 | No one wanted the children to be more traumatised than they already were , she said , and it would certainly be less travelling for them to go to Inverness than to return to Kirkwall . |
| 5 | However , arguments along the lines of ‘ the Russians ’ real objective was less their alleged anxiety to protect Cuba than to alter the whole balance of global strategy to their advantage by one bold stroke' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 49 ) would seem to raise something of a false dilemma . |
| 6 | Herbert had at first been reluctant to believe that it was better for John to study dance in Cape Town than to return to high school in Johannesburg . |
| 7 | To Great Britain and Austria-Hungary it was more important to check the expansion of Russia than to win territory . |
| 8 | The Independent Television Commission will decide in May whether to force competitive TV station advertising on the ITV companies . |
| 9 | The Mexican government has informed them that they have to decide by December whether to return to Guatemala , or to lose refugee status and become Mexican citizens . |
| 10 | THE International Weightlifting Federation will decide in February whether to restore a ban on Britons Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton , who were thrown out of the Olympics after failing drug tests . |
| 11 | The decision was strongly opposed by the Labour Party who suspected the Conservative minister of being more concerned to destroy the Labour-controlled LCC than to reform local government . |
| 12 | The regional materials of each area , once so varied , began their slow demise as bricks , for instance , became cheaper to import from the Midlands than to bake in the village kiln . |
| 13 | For it was the general election of 1931 which so drastically altered the balance of parties in the House of Commons as to give the politics of the 1930s its special character . |
| 14 | Better to have lain in the marshes of Halling than to end one 's time in a cardboard box in a steel locker with a fake ! |
| 15 | In addition the child can become very frightened , thinking that he must have been very naughty indeed for Mummy to prefer to go to be with Jesus than to stay with him . |
| 16 | Gloucester County council 's planning department will decide in October whether to grant permission for the dump . |
| 17 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 18 | By recognising that it has more to learn from Hanson than to fear . |
| 19 | What greater respect for God than to make an offering of a golden calf ? |
| 20 | In this chapter I have done more to highlight some of the problems in reaching a definition of God than to offer a solution of my own . |
| 21 | But such appeals run into the one constant of American policy : Mr Clinton 's determination not to put American ground troops in Bosnia unless to enforce a peace treaty . |
| 22 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 23 | Accordingly , some of Panmure 's friends were reported to ‘ have been so free with Mr. Erskine as to tell him that if L[or]d Dunn should appear against ’ the Panmure interest , then Erskine would certainly lose his collectorship . |
| 24 | At the weekends when my Ma and Dad wanted a bit of peace , it was usually easier to send me to bide with Uncle Bill than to take me in the bus to my Uncle Geordie at Dalkeith . |
| 25 | It would be better to close Aston than to ruin it , ’ ) it may be less loath to advertise Aston 's kinship with the other of Ford 's British buy-ups , Jaguar . |
| 26 | I 'd sooner come to Cheltenham than to go to a holiday abroad . |
| 27 | Right twenty second if there 's any difficulty I 'll come back to Paul and Keith cos to let everybody else know about any problems |
| 28 | Perhaps one or two of them were so blinded by hatred of Lloyd George as to believe that the move would still show up his impotence . |
| 29 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 30 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |