Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your own college library and local lending and reference libraries house a great deal of this ; you will be able to borrow or refer to the literature in these libraries . |
| 2 | Advertise the requirements of clients and contacts who may wish to acquire or sell through the NEWSFLASH system . |
| 3 | Presumably they would be unable to burrow or hide from the Sun like small mammals . |
| 4 | 1805 The stent includes " The Sum allow 'd Mrs. MacMillan , Professed Midwife , for her encouragement to attend & remain in the Island for this year . |
| 5 | Each side was therefore unwilling to give ground and ready to support or go to the aid of their colleagues . |
| 6 | The task does not require detailed syntactic processing , simply to know where to pause ( the major syntactic boundaries ) , which words to stress ( distinguishing content and function words ) and whether the sentence requires the pitch to fall or rise at the end ( is it a yes-no question ? ) . |
| 7 | Asked to agree or disagree with the statement : ‘ As Darlington 's MP Michael Fallon has served very well ’ , some 47pc either agreed or agreed strongly . |
| 8 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 9 | If the acquiring company refuses to provide , or is incapable of providing , clear instructions , if it refuses to accept and/or pay for the equipment or software , if it tampers with the programs , misuses them and allows employees to copy them freely , the supplier will need to take action . |
| 10 | It may help , with the older child , to write or type out the house rules ( the ‘ standing orders ’ ) and post them up in the kitchen or elsewhere . |
| 11 | OLDHAM have placed Paul Round , their second-row forward , on the transfer list for £95,000 , claiming he is in breach of contract for refusing to train or play for the club , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 12 | Since they held Jordanian passports , it followed that those wishing to work or travel outside the West Bank had to pass over the bridge . |
| 13 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 14 | For a start his mother had always taught him that it was a sin to work or play on the Sabbath . |
| 15 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 16 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 17 | The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar . |
| 18 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 19 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 20 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 21 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 22 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 23 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 24 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 25 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 26 | ‘ When I came here with my parents in 1974 and saw that most of the ‘ Australian ’ souvenirs were imported from Hong Kong and the Philippines , I decided to try and break into the market , ’ he recalled . |
| 27 | Often counselling can help them come to terms with a lot of this and help them set out a means to try and change in the future . ’ |
| 28 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 29 | Got to try and talk without the T V on . |
| 30 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |