Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin McCloud , whose background is in history of art and theatrical set designing , presents 40 individual roomsets in a variety of styles to copy or adapt to your own home . |
| 2 | Many developing nations , with limited resources available with which to adjust or adapt to changes in climate , will have to rely on international assistance even more than they do at present . |
| 3 | You have a long , hard think about it , because it 's a great mistake to simply accept or adapt to whatever space you have , however cramped or awkward it is , without questioning whether it 's right for you . |
| 4 | In addition , human systems may well respond or adapt to the predictions of a model , which become , in effect , self-fulfilling prophecies . |
| 5 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 7 | You do n't have to draw or paint to be able to do it . ’ |
| 8 | Old unused farm houses/cottages were being renovated to rent or lease to tourists throughout the year . |
| 9 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 10 | The 100MHz DX2 will need a 50MHz motherboard , so Atomstyle 's 50MHz unit might be just the thing to upgrade a little further down the road if you 're a real speed freak , but I have the sneaking suspicion that you wo n't either want or need to . |
| 11 | It must also be satisfied that the adopter has not received nor agreed to receive , and that no person has made or given or agreed to make or give to the adopter , any payment in consideration of the adoption , except such as the court may sanction . |
| 12 | For £12 a year you will receive five copies of each issue of Ulster Dawn , which you can then sell or give to friends or family . |
| 13 | Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance . |
| 14 | I can write or speak to anyone with a say in how society or the Church spend money — our money , God 's money — and I can discuss these things with others . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you that I did n't see or speak to anybody . ’ |
| 16 | For many people this was the last time they were to see or speak to him and they are left with a good memory and a triumphant one . |
| 17 | He was seducing her already , pulling her close , and there was nothing she could say or do to still the instant leaping hunger he incited . |
| 18 | One family would gather on Sunday evening round the harmonium ; another would go to their grandfather 's village shop , boys and uncles each with a fiddle or cello , to sing or dance to their own tunes — ‘ we really enjoyed that ; ’ while a Yorkshire millowner 's family used to ask all their kin for weekly musical parties , taking turns to host these ‘ dreadful performances . ’ |
| 19 | Many factors , such as differences between social classes in attitudes to marriage , could explain or contribute to explaining the difference . |
| 20 | A growing number of staffs within and across schools and the specialist services are now engaged in developing such joint approaches , meeting as teams in school-based discussions and workshops , with the explicit aims of pooling their expertise , sharing and increasing their understanding of the factors that may lead or contribute to children 's learning difficulties , and finding their own most appropriate solutions to them . |
| 21 | This kind of representational ability is thought to be a particularly important developmental achievement since the essence of early language is the child 's ability to use speech sounds to represent or refer to objects , actions and locations . |
| 22 | Other objectives include " promotion of correct library behaviour " , coordinating the library 's work with that of county providers and ensuring " that staff are helped to relate Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers to those subject areas which they might require pupils to research or refer to " ( Proposal document ) . |
| 23 | Your own college library and local lending and reference libraries house a great deal of this ; you will be able to borrow or refer to the literature in these libraries . |
| 24 | Thus the pronoun this does not name or refer to any particular entity on all occasions of use ; rather it is a variable or place-holder for some particular entity given by the context ( e.g. by a gesture ) . |
| 25 | Given the rule that a " fair comment " must state or refer to the facts upon which it is based , to what extent might the falsity of those facts destroy the defence ? |
| 26 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 27 | What they show is that no matter how objective or impartial enquiries may seek or claim to be they are always in some degree preconceived because they are preconditioned by cultural assumptions of one sort or another . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Where a member fails to disclose or furnish any information , document or other matter which he is required to disclose or furnish to the Company under Article 6 the Directors may resolve that no vote shall be tendered or accepted in respect of any share held by or for him until the member shall have disclosed or furnished the information , document or other matter required . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) Where a member fails to disclose or furnish any information , document or other matter which he is required to disclose or furnish to the Company under Article 6 the Directors may resolve that no vote shall be tendered or accepted in respect of any share held by or for him until the member shall have disclosed or furnished the information , document or other matter required . |
| 30 | Animals would die of cold and thirst , food supplies would soon run out and most of the human survivors would starve or freeze to death . |