Example sentences of "[to-vb] [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 It is an offence to demolish or to alter a listed building unless listed building consent has been obtained .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 Once you 've decided whether you need to paint or to draw , the amount you spend depends on four main questions :
13 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.
14 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 .
15 9 Make the decision to entertain a rational one and ensure that you have something useful to impart or to discuss .
16 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 .
17 That sort of relationship would be very difficult to sustain or to generalize beyond one or two individuals .
18 An increase from fifty to a hundred members would allow greater flexibility for our regional committees in the regions to decide whether they allow the branch to continue or to amalgamate with another branch .
19 Their motivation to support or to tease siblings develops .
20 There is regrettably little evidence to support or to challenge this .
21 Yet there is nothing to support or to disprove the identification .
22 He therefore refused to attend or to allow his wife to .
23 His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety .
24 Anglican bishops were not asked to attend or to send observers .
25 The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules .
26 Your chair needs to support your spine , cushion your bottom and be at a convenient height for writing — but it does not need to be upholstered or to swivel or to have a head/footrest or whatever .
27 This meeting is called by a manager to inform his subordinates or to instruct or to control them .
28 7.1 Warranty re-convictions The Tenant warrants that prior to the execution of this Lease [ it ] has disclosed to the Landlord in writing any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director or 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 insurance of any of the Insured Risks The landlord may wish to include this in order to protect its position resulting from insurance contracts being uberrimae fidei , with the resultant obligation to disclose to the insurers material facts within its actual or presumed knowledge .
29 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 .
30 In this the Commission is charged with keeping all State aids under continuous review , and member states are required to provide prior notification of any plans to grant or to alter aid .
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