Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 2 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 3 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 4 | Or to put it in another way , for Gandhi the stone partakes of the nature of that which it represents . |
| 5 | Or to put it in another way Truth is God . |
| 6 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 7 | He wanted to grasp the newness , or to measure it in some way , hardly daring to hope that it was good . |
| 8 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 9 | If your employer has the right , for example , to insist that you undertake certain other tasks or to move you to another department , your job will be at risk if you dig in your heels and disobey . |
| 10 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 11 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 12 | ‘ Not even a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for any upheaval ? ’ |
| 13 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 14 | Then they can pause in a reading to worry out a meaning , and to discuss it with each other . |
| 15 | And to do it in this style , with Pierre . ’ |
| 16 | It can be argued that it is a citizen 's right to be free to collect information about whatever and whoever he likes and to do it in any way which is not intrusive or injurious . |
| 17 | If we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness . |
| 18 | It allowed Franco to play the nationalist card more blatantly than ever , using his public appearances to recall the horrors of the Civil War and to present himself as both martyr on the altar of Spain 's liberation from communism and guarantor of the continued existence of Spain as a coherent socio-political entity . |
| 19 | ‘ We do agree in Vestry held at the Bull Inn in Potton the 13th day of October 1812 that Roger Johnson , breeches maker of Potton , Beds. aforesaid shall farm the workhouse after the rate of 4s.6d per head old and young , to have their earnings and to employ them in any way to his advantage , to provide a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and to have their meals hot three days in the week ( commonly called pott days ) … ’ |
| 20 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 21 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 22 | It may be argued that sexuality has a certain uniqueness which is absent from much property : sexuality is an intrinsic part of one 's personality , it is a mode of expressing that personality in relation to others , and it is therefore fundamental that one should be able to choose whether to express oneself in this way — and , if so , towards and with whom . |
| 23 | Last night Darlington police said a 14-year-old boy has been questioned about the fire and has been released pending a decision whether to charge him with any offence . |
| 24 | Almost as though to punish herself for that foolishness , she forced herself to look him in the eye and enquire , ‘ So , how is Janice enjoying married life ? ’ |
| 25 | As though to prepare us for that vision , Rubin Spangle has devised a show of early Flavin works from the Sixties which will be on until the end of the month . |