Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [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 | Open Learning would be extremely useful to chemists unable to attend or travel to an institute of higher education . |
| 7 | 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 ? ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although not an exact science , it does enable banks to give countries some sort of credit rating and , from this , bank lending officers can make a decision on whether to grant or participate in a loan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some school pupils may , however , prefer to visit the Office , in which case they are invited to write or telephone for an appointment ( see section ‘ Addresses for Enquiries ’ ) . |
| 15 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since they held Jordanian passports , it followed that those wishing to work or travel outside the West Bank had to pass over the bridge . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a start his mother had always taught him that it was a sin to work or play on the Sabbath . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 22 | The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar . |
| 23 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 24 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |