Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] they [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , it was theoretically to the advantage of the French kings to have the Plantagenets as feudal inferiors , rather than to expel them from their remaining continental possessions . |
| 2 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 3 | And to help them through their carbon-copy situation , they are also studying ways in which they can emulate our enterprise challenge . |
| 4 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 5 | But if students are to be encouraged to weigh things up for themselves , to form their own views , and to articulate them with their own reasons , then it is also incumbent on their lecturers and tutors to offer their own truth claims to their students in the spirit of ‘ this is so , is n't it ? ’ ( to use again Leavis ' central question ) . |
| 6 | Deem 's concern is to explain these policy changes and to place them within their economic and political context . |
| 7 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 8 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 9 | Not only have the boundaries between them shifted with time , but to abstract them from their historical contexts can lead to artificiality as well as anachronism . |
| 10 | What Peano had suggested was that it might be possible , not to take the simple ideas with which people had hitherto operated in mathematics as ultimate , but to derive them from something simpler still . |