Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | With little access to trade outlets , early Inuit had neither the power nor the will to over-exploit or destroy their few resources . |
| 3 | Hotels , restaurants and other local businesses are known to have been deeply disappointed that the city failed to make a suitable offer which might have persuaded the Baron to forestall or reconsider his new arrangements in Madrid . |
| 4 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 5 | But although I scarcely , if ever , thought about sex , I wallowed in thoughts of death , utilising them , rather than death itself , to bear or deny my increasing depression instead of taking steps to put an end to it . |
| 6 | During the heyday of the fair it was the right of every villager to brew and sell his own beer , and he advertised the fact by hanging a branch or piece of greenery over his door . |
| 7 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 8 | Er , so the lesson we learned from tornado was that we want to try and cap our financial liabilities for the project for the development of it , at a much earlier stage and er drive as tough a commercial bargain as we possibly can . |
| 9 | You might like to try and measure your own performance . |
| 10 | Let me with some humility , therefore , describe the manner in which I and my colleagues have sought to try and create our own dream of where our company might fit into tomorrow 's world , and how this process of marrying the vision from the top with the visions from below has been carried out within ICI . |
| 11 | He then goes on erm going on from that , going on from say commercialization , increased commercialization erm that there 's an effort to build more roads and repairing and that basically there seems to be a picture that the peasants are getting together to try and improve their own lot . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 13 | ‘ I bought the plane to try and cure my lifelong fear of flying — but everything went wrong , ’ says Mike whose Tubular Bells II topped the album charts earlier this month . |
| 14 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |
| 15 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 16 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 17 | Not only do you have to work out where your competitors stand at present , but you also have to try and project their future course in the same way you have projected your own and look at how this will affect your own policies in future . |
| 18 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 19 | To endeavour to spread these principles among my companions , and to try and help my younger brothers . |
| 20 | In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme . |
| 21 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You ought to come and visit me one day . |
| 23 | Oh they 're going to come and give you another quote or something you said ? |
| 24 | So that was how we came to be sitting in the darkened room with Granny 's coffin on the table , waiting for the neighbours to come and show their last respects . |
| 25 | Hepzibah said , ‘ Only natural that he should want to come and pay his last respects to his sister . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , you do that and I 'll go and get Great-gran to come and witness her golden boy stark naked in the bath with his daughter sitting on his lap . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You are welcome to come and inspect us any time you like , ’ he was saying . |
| 28 | It was because of her worsening rheumatism that she 'd asked for Ruth to come and help her this summer . |
| 29 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 30 | He has agreed to come and see me this morning , if you 're interested . ’ |