Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ILP desire to exert influence on the rest of the Labour movement was tempered by hostility to the Communists and , above all , by an inability to compromise or to sacrifice any of the Party 's independence . |
| 2 | Here , the patterns are ready to view on screen in their original design colours , or to download direct to the console for knitting without making any changes or alterations . |
| 3 | To include in teacher training ‘ respect for others ’ as a first principle and to support this by the development of teaching materials and activities which foster a practical understanding of its significance |
| 4 | Part of the experiment was to discover resident reactions to the measures and to relate these to the expenditure incurred , thus providing a crude measure of cost-effectiveness . |
| 5 | But it 's the clear duty of a seller 's conveyancer to recognise the nature of any plan required , and to obtain this from the seller , or , with authority , to instruct a professional draughtsman to prepare one . |
| 6 | After a great deal of pressure exerted upon him by Dempsey and others , the husband agreed to guarantee the indebtedness on the Dempsey accounts for a limited period said to be ‘ only about four days , ’ and to secure this by a charge on his house in favour of the bank . |
| 7 | It will require strong democratic local or regional government institutions , equipped to respond to local needs and to reflect these in the Community policy-making process . |
| 8 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 9 | Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing . |
| 10 | ‘ He has only had nine hurdles races and to win five in a row is obviously something special . ’ |
| 11 | He had to make it clear that he had learnt his lesson on tariff reform , and to do this in a way as compatible as possible with the dignity of an ex-Prime Minister . |
| 12 | In precision work it is usual to attach a strain gauge to the specimen surface and to use this as a measure of the strain under given load . |
| 13 | Another method is to collect information on structural and other contextual properties and to use these as a basis for sampling . |
| 14 | The second course is to write the history of the local organisation from general knowledge gleaned over the years , and to send this to the leader , or committee , for comment . |
| 15 | The intention of the current work is to explore the perceptions of the voluntary sector held by local authority staff and to consider this in the light of their policies and practices for contacting and working with ( or for ) the voluntary groups in their areas . |
| 16 | the confidence to maintain breadth , richness and variety , and to match these to the learner 's interests and direction ( i.e. to stimulate and challenge ) , |
| 17 | The guardian ad litem is required to ascertain the child 's wishes on attendance and to convey these to the court . |
| 18 | 5.12.2 Not without the consent in writing of the Landlord to apply for planning permission to carry out any development in or upon the Premises and at the expense of the Tenant to supply the Landlord with a copy of any application for planning permission together with such plans and other documents as the Landlord may [ reasonably ] require and to supply prior to the commencement of any development a copy of any planning permission granted to the Tenant |
| 19 | While bird-watching is often used at an early stage in research to try to develop hypotheses and to make sure one does have some idea of how people behave before going any further , there is no reason why one should not develop more systematic recording schedules to standardize the observations and to develop more of a survey approach . |
| 20 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 21 | When established during the 1940s , nationalised industries were instructed to operate in the ‘ public interest ’ and to break even over a period of years . |
| 22 | It is therefore advisable to give the bass to the bass trombone and to double this at the octave below with the tuba . |
| 23 | He still finds it difficult to shake off the smock-and-straw image of the unintelligent country yokel and to convince those outside the industry of his skill and versatility . |
| 24 | So they are facing much higher costs and we 're aiming to provide more accommodation at an affordable level for the students , and to take some of the pressure off the housing market in the city . |
| 25 | In fact some evidence of commitment already existed , since the head , who claims to have wanted to improve the library and to link this to the introduction of study skills , had already approached the governing body to seek county support for redecoration . |
| 26 | ‘ Whenever I 'd played their records I 'd be dancing around me room , and to dance onstage to the music you like is just f—ing awesome . |
| 27 | The formula for the earnings ratio is simply +B7/B6 entered into B9 and to show this as a percentage all that is necessary is to set the cells format to percent . |
| 28 | With every approach , try to get into the habit of thinking ahead about the height of he final turn and to become familiar with the idea of using the airbrakes to bring you down so that the final turn is not too high . |
| 29 | The bullet in the groin at the end of Lipstick may be cathartic , and we may take a certain ghoulish delight in watching Farrah Fawcett in Extremities debate whether to bury alive in the garden the attempted rapist she has tied up in her house . |
| 30 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |