Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family . |
| 2 | The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) . |
| 3 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 4 | Here the individualistic , childhood-makes-man approach is relatively trivial and , paradoxically , can do little more than to complement and compound the worst aspects of the holistic fallacy by narrowly explaining adult character as a function of cultural conditioning and contemporary family circumstances . |
| 5 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 6 | In the case of bush and shrub types , this will ideally be from the base of the plant to avoid the main road from becoming any longer than it need be , and to preserve and constrain the overall size of the bush . |
| 7 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 8 | Apart from the CDs I have already reviewed , I have been playing through others in the series to get things into perspective and to try and plot the diverse range of Liszt 's output which has so far been performed and recorded with such remarkable consistency . |
| 9 | Before applying for legal aid , the solicitors consider that it will be necessary to see the video of the boy 's interview with the police and social services , and to obtain and consider the social service records . |
| 10 | Planning department 's role is then to ensure that plans are prepared , to help the chief executive to review the proposed plans , and to consolidate and present a total corporate-wide plan . |
| 11 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 12 | The single database approach to corporate information provides the potential to relate data about business activities and to describe and analyse a particular aspect of the business system regardless of whether or not that aspect is already functionally formalised within the organisation . |
| 13 | Thus the observer looking for evidence of ‘ knowledge , skills , or expertise ’ in the activities of the specialist team might see it in their tendency , relative to the generic team , to visit more and to recommend and provide a wider range of services ; to make fewer offers of service that are refused ; and to encounter fewer occasions on which re-assessment is thought to be necessary . |
| 14 | It will have a new independent statutory role , not only to inspect and produce reports , as now , but to advise and monitor the new system for schools with delegated budgets . |
| 15 | Thus evaluation can be used for decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given course , about the modification necessary for an existing programme , about the use of various teaching methods to achieve a pre-specified goal , or about the adoption of an innovation . |
| 16 | And , while Emma and Sophie were still happy here in London , she had no alternative but to try and endure the venomous pin-pricks of her elderly mother-in-law . |
| 17 | Large firms generally face a choice between making components and other intermediate products themselves , or buying in from outside — in other words , a decision whether to internalize or externalize a particular stage of production . |
| 18 | Dowty shareholders must decide by noon whether to accept or reject a hostile bid from the engineering firm TI . |
| 19 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 20 | Within the UK it remains ultimately the prerogative of a politically accountable minister to decide , acting upon the advice of the bureaucracy , whether to permit or to forbid a particular merger . |
| 21 | Common-sense , or rhetorical , thinking involves the raising and dropping of anchors , not to mention the continual arguments about whether to raise or lower the metaphorical anchor at any given moment . |
| 22 | THE cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention today faces a crunch decision : whether to fold or find a new role . |
| 23 | Where the Purchasing Manager 's particular expertise comes into its own is in the presentation and evaluation of purchasing alternatives , or in the assessment of whether to make or buy a particular product or component . |
| 24 | Perhaps if there really was ( and is ) ‘ widespread discontent … about the quality of education ’ , the best remedy would be to enhance teaching as a profession so as to attract and retain the best recruits , by paying them proper salaries and by promoting those who teach well , in such a way that they stay in the classroom instead of becoming administrators . |
| 25 | However , the major task of service development involved field level identification of needs and opportunities , followed by close liaison with staff at County Hall so as to shape and influence the normal planning of capital and recurrent programmes within , and beyond , the social services department . |