Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | In view of the importance of the stipulation to pay 75 per cent of the price , and the failure of the defenders to pay or to respond to demands for payment , the pursuers were entitled to infer that the defenders did not intend to fulfil their obligations and pursuers were entitled to rescind . |
| 3 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
| 4 | To work out quickly what your RC will indicate at the point where you arrive on track , use the following method : When you turn Left to intercept ( or to allow for drift on track ) consider Left as Minus |
| 5 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Members of the House of Lords appear on the Electoral Register for local and European electoral purposes only : they are allowed neither to vote in parliamentary elections nor to serve as Members of Parliament . |
| 7 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 8 | because it 's a lot easier for a government to say if you stop smoking it 'll be alright , than to deal with things like poverty . |
| 9 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 10 | If then your paper proves suitable you will be told that to register for Advances in Fermentation ‘ 83 , organised by Process Biochemistry , Penn House , Rickmansworth , Herts WD3 1SN would normally cost £152 . |
| 11 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 12 | Educational establishments , through partnerships need to research into supportive evaluative procedures , to simplify lines of accountability and to attend to issues of quality in education . |
| 13 | Sacher stated that all StB agents and officers had been ordered to hand in all weapons and identity cards , and to remain at home on standby . |
| 14 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 15 | As your career develops you may also have the opportunity to gain the Certificate in Supervisory Studies for Stewarding Management , and to work towards membership of Cookery and Food Associations . |
| 16 | This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well . |
| 17 | You would be expected to provide the committee with legal advice and to rule on matters of procedure in accordance with the authority 's standing orders . |
| 18 | In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship . |
| 19 | For these to be useful to schools , teachers need to find economical ways of distinguishing authorised from unauthorised absence , of distinguishing ‘ real ’ from condoned absence and to look for patterns of absence taking actual pupils as the starting point rather than a more generalised attendance rate . |
| 20 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 21 | There will always be the possibility that his spontaneous preferences will change with wider information or finer perceptiveness , and to retreat from awareness in order to cling to a highly-valued end will be one of the great offences against ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 22 | It enables them to avoid committing themselves and to retreat in front of danger ; and this is one of the major reasons why people speak indirectly . |
| 23 | This allows the Registry to meet requests from student societies for lists and labels in support of membership activities , and to respond to requests from project students for assistance with questionnaire sampling and distribution . |
| 24 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 25 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |
| 26 | Banks were able to bid aggressively for wholesale deposits and to take in funds in return for the issue of certificates of deposit . |
| 27 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 28 | It was in their interests to be " internationalist " and to move in search of work . |
| 29 | To be aware of how our past can affect our present and to pray with others for healing can be vital . |
| 30 | Scientists themselves have always been able to work in laboratories during the week , and to pray in places of worship at the week-end , by accepting the separation of the domains . |