Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sub-contractor who holds a C certificate may choose to present to the builder the ’ original ’ and ’ official copy ’ or alternatively a special certifying document ’ confirming that the company holds a tax certificate . |
| 2 | The user may wish to start at the beginning of the file , or at any other point . |
| 3 | Although a licensing board may resolve to call for the production of plans under the subsection in respect of a number of existing licences , a separate requirement must be recorded and intimated to the licence holder in respect of each licence separately . |
| 4 | Although the licensing board may resolve to call for the production of plans under this section in respect of a number of existing licences , a separate requirement must be recorded , and intimated to the licence-holder , in respect of each licence separately . |
| 5 | In reading Greenblatt it can too often seem that discussions of such selective parts of a play may appear to stand for the whole . |
| 6 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 7 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 8 | The diagnosis of chronic haemonchosis is more difficult because of the concurrent presence of poor nutrition and confirmation may have to depend on the gradual disappearance of the syndrome after anthelmintic treatment . |
| 9 | Both these positions entail a great deal of risk ; going long produces the possibility of capital losses on the shares held , going short produces the possibility that the jobber may have to buy in the shares at a future date at expensive prices . |
| 10 | The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus . |
| 11 | Readers may like to think about the sort of policy interactions involved by asking themselves what would be the effects upon social life and social policy of the reintroduction of a two-year period of compulsory national service . |
| 12 | Occasionally Princess Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , and the Princes Andrew and Edward might come to play for the afternoon but there certainly were n't the comings and goings many have assumed . |
| 13 | At a more substantial level , a president might agree to appear in the constituency of a key congressman at election time to provide him with highly visible and , possibly , crucial support . |
| 14 | Anyone who has ever admired ‘ well kept ’ horses in immaculate stables might like to ponder on the fact that wild horses do n't : |
| 15 | Any offensive operations which the United States might have to conduct on the Asiatic continent would probably avoid the Korean peninsula . |
| 16 | The Tory-held seats at the last election which Labour would expect to win in the North-East are Darlington , Tynemouth , and Langbaurgh . |
| 17 | Labour would hope to rely on the combined votes of the Liberal Democrats , the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru . |
| 18 | Creators of the farce , US cinema giants Loews , say fans would have to go to the cinema 68 times before seeing the same plot . |
| 19 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 20 | It was clear that the department would need to move with the times if its pupils were to continue to get good results , and , encouraged by her new Head of Department , Joanne found herself entrusted with the management of a curriculum innovation for the intake year . |
| 21 | What we almost certainly would do by such a devaluation process — from which the Labour Front Bench is now trying to distance itself — is to postpone decisions which industry would have to take in the end , anyway . |
| 22 | It is a useful exercise to look in detail at a particular school with which one is familiar and ask how much of current practice would have to change for the policies listed to be implemented . |
| 23 | If they succeed without merit , the fault would appear to lie with the way the appeal system is operating rather than in regulation 72 as it is currently worded . ’ |
| 24 | To achieve this effectively and on a large scale the teaching force would have to concentrate upon the narrow limits which had been set . |
| 25 | A Yeltsin aide also gave warning that even if the congress voted to oust him , the president would refuse to quit on the grounds that the decision was illegal . |
| 26 | A Yeltsin aide also warned yesterday that even if the congress voted to oust him , the president would refuse to quit on the grounds that the decision was illegal . |
| 27 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 28 | If so , on past form only a third of the electorate will bother to go to the polls . |
| 29 | It is still uncertain how much time schools will have to devote to the national curriculum and its various subjects , and how much they will be able to give to other activities . |
| 30 | Industry will have to pay for the licences they are granted and will have a duty to reduce pollution and render their discharges harmless . |