Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to pay can result in our applying to the court for power to deduct arrears from your income or to arrange for the sale of your goods to recover the amount due . |
| 2 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 3 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 4 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 5 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 6 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 7 | If diarrhoea is described in some particular terms rather than others ( e.g. if it described as empacho ) the patient is more likely to consult a traditional practitioner than to go to a health clinic . |
| 8 | The Branch Clubs have continued to receive the support of the Committee of Registered Clubs Association and to benefit from the work of the All Party Parliamentary Committee for Non-Profit Making Members Clubs . |
| 9 | a self-evaluation followed by visits by advisers to see if staff are performing up to their own perception and to look into the objectives of the school . |
| 10 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 11 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 12 | The purpose of this process of doubting is to strain off the dross of uncertainty and to leave behind a residue of knowledge — objective , certain , universal . |
| 13 | The Unit also endeavours to encourage collaborative research and to act as a source of advice for studies carried out by other organisations . |
| 14 | A section of the road was shut for a week and motorists were warned to clean their cars and to dispose of the rags in plastic bags . |
| 15 | Schools choose teachers to carry out a specific duty , to teach specific subjects and to contribute to the school at large . |
| 16 | He could n't see that of course poor Jean-Louis liked me , of course he was sexually attracted , but there was this other thing , it was n't really shyness , it was a determination to try to be a priest and to live in the world . |
| 17 | I want you to think of yourself as the driver of the car and to concentrate on the kinds of things you are normally aware of when you are driving . |
| 18 | Validated centres may if they wish adapt these to suit their own teaching styles and to correspond with the contexts in which the modules are being offered . |
| 19 | The purpose of the current study is to inform the Adoption Law Review and to contribute to the development of agency policy and practice . |
| 20 | She said , today : ‘ I am delighted to have an opportunity to meet my European peers and to participate in the debates and the entire programme . ’ |
| 21 | For this purpose auditors are entitled , under section 237(3) , to inspect the company 's books and to require from the company 's officers such information as they think necessary for the performance of their duties . |
| 22 | This was viewed as crucial to end the long period of disruption in schools and to deal with the problems of student demotivation . |
| 23 | But DES Circular 11/87 exhorts schools to acknowledge that some parents have strong religious or cultural objections to the imparting of sex education by schools and to comply with a request to withdraw a child in such circumstances . |
| 24 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 25 | The driver , travelling at some eighty kilometres per hour , had little alternative but to stand on the brakes and swing the bus hard right . |
| 26 | The girl called Maggie had no alternative but to sit in a chair close to Eileen . |
| 27 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 28 | The capitalist system implied a monopoly of these ‘ means of production ’ in the hands of the few , so that the workers had no alternative but to work for the capitalist and on his terms in order to survive . |
| 29 | This is a good place to rest for lunch or to visit for an evening out , for there is often live music in the restaurants and bars — folk , fado and jazz are all provided for . |
| 30 | Pennycuick J. found that there was no implied request for any service or promise of service [ for example , to use his best endeavours to persuade the bank to sell at £100,000 or to act as a go-between — cf. the putting in touch with X in British Bank for Foreign Trade v. Novinex ( above , p. 94 ) ] . |