Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council does , however , bring a disciplinary case against a doctor who , having decided to practice a particular form of medicine or to carry out a particular procedure , does so in a way that can be shown to have been irresponsible , or unnecessarily hazardous to one or more patients , because the doctor has failed to exercise a proper standard of professional care ; the council also brings a disciplinary case when a doctor makes outrageous and false claims regarding the efficacy of a particular form of treatment . |
| 2 | Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ? |
| 3 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 4 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 5 | Victims were named but the report did not give details of those responsible , its remit being to document repression rather than to carry out a judicial investigation . |
| 6 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 7 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 8 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 9 | But even if it is n't , it is far better to start with a concise piece of information which can be built up into a bigger story if the circumstances are right than to send out a wordy release which is immediately discarded . |
| 10 | This project unites a joint team of British and French economists and lawyers from the Universities of Sussex and Grenoble to review the existing evidence in a dispassionate collaborative manner to try to develop a common view and to carry out a limited number of new investigations in areas of particular sensitivity . |
| 11 | There was then the opportunity to meet the captain and crew and to find out a little bit more as to how the plane was able to fly at such a phenomenal speed . |
| 12 | To write the words ‘ the family in industrial society ’ is to make a lot of assumptions and to open up a complex range of questions . |
| 13 | to begin working on next year 's pay claim and to set up a working group to consider new strategies for the campaign ; |
| 14 | What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . . |
| 15 | But Leeds City found a saviour in Mr J. Connor , secretary of the West Riding Football Association , who with four other local citizens decided to form a syndicate , with himself as chairman , to keep the club at Elland Road , and to set up a limited liability company . |
| 16 | The distribution was apparently hampered by strict curfew regulations , imposed in the occupied territories as a security measure since the morning of Jan. 16 in view of the level of popular support for Saddam Hussein and to ward off a fresh upsurge in the Palestinian intifada . |
| 17 | Learn the right way to get out of bed , and to pick up a heavy object . |
| 18 | … a charismatically endowed descendant of David whom the Jews … believed would be raised up by God to break the yoke of the heathen and to reign over a restored kingdom of Israel to which all the Jews of the Exile would return . |
| 19 | This has in fact occurred in the advanced capitalist countries , and one main consequence has been to limit industrial conflict primarily to economic issues , as against larger issues of the control of the enterprise , and to bring about a substantial degree of integration of workers into the existing mode of production . |
| 20 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 21 | The data will be analysed and a decision made as to whether to carry out a similar experiment during the busy summer months . |
| 22 | This means managers have to be careful when considering whether to take on a new act . |
| 23 | The remit of the division is to formulate policies for academic innovation , to promote wider access and to develop continuing education in all its forms , as well as to carry out a major teaching activity in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 24 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 25 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 26 | The aim of both the part-time education and further extended full-time study , on grants , would be to acquire qualifications on a module basis , so as to build up a whole range of technical qualifications . |