Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor do the advances in scientific knowledge , which began in Elizabeth 's reign and multiplied during the Stuart period , appear to have caused any appreciable weakening of the Christian belief of intellectuals , or to have created a new elite group of educated non-believers . |
| 2 | ( 10 ) An applicant may appeal to the sheriff against a decision of a licensing board to refuse to affirm a licence under subsection ( 2 ) above or to refuse to declare a provisional grant of a licence final under subsection ( 4 ) above . |
| 3 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 4 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |
| 5 | This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | They began with some exploratory tests to see what effects if any were there to be measured and to help design an optimal experiment-to scale it properly , in the idiom that Fleischmann uses . |
| 7 | They claim ‘ AT&T 's real motivation is to harass and to attempt to intimidate a potential competitor ’ and ‘ to maintain a monopoly of the Unix System market by suing anyone who refuses to tithe to them . ’ |
| 8 | The former was alleged by the press to have enriched himself substantially during the PSOE 's term of office by using the influence of his brother to buy property and obtain loans , and to have run a private business from a government office in Seville . |
| 9 | NatWest Securities , the broker , points out that Rugby is one of only three companies in the entire sector to have cash in the bank and to have maintained a strong balance sheet throughout the downturn . |
| 10 | This small grant under the ESRC/HSFR Research Exchange scheme for social scientists was used both to complete a comparative research programme on unemployment and social security and to begin planning a broader project examining the links between ideologies and policies associated with work , labour market participation and economic performance and strategies of welfare . |
| 11 | The challenge now is to spread the exporting ethos throughout our industry and to make exporting a normal part of business here . |
| 12 | The aim of such a meeting would not be to see whether any staff members have particular responsibility for the event but to try to develop a shared understanding of why it occurred . |
| 13 | Decorative , framed mirrors can be hung against a wall in much the same way as a picture , but to avoid having an exposed wire or chain , glass plates are often used . |
| 14 | But to undertake to pay a certain sum after the sale of a property does not give rise to any implication that the solicitor will be exonerated if no sale proceeds come into his hands . |
| 15 | At a meeting on April 21-22 the Democratic Platform 's co-ordinating council was divided over the question of whether to begin creating a new party immediately , with those in favour of an immediate split from the CPSU forming a steering committee chaired by Nikolai Travkin . |
| 16 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 17 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 18 | In every way possible let us discipline ourselves so as to help feed a hungry world . |
| 19 | In any case , his use of search was not so extensive as to merit using a large number of firms . |