Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 2 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 3 | Wages fell rapidly and the unions , despite their involvement in many long and protracted disputes were unable to staunch the outward flow of members and funds or to stave off the savage monetary wage cuts which occurred . |
| 4 | At the end of 1936 G. D. H. Cole , in his The Peoples Front , advocated the formation of " Radical Groups " , to work in local Liberal parties and to co-operate with the Labour and Communist Parties . |
| 5 | It is also undeniable that he sees a part of the truth — such ceremonies educated the young at large to respect their elders and betters and to aspire to the same glory ( Polyb. 6.54.3 ) : they were civic festivals . |
| 6 | Whatever it was , he appointed one John Leathart , a mining engineer , to conduct a survey of the Coniston Mines and to advise on the true position there . |
| 7 | In these situations they are able to contribute information and guidance regarding the problems that pupils have with visual activities and to consider on an individual basis the compounding effect that these may have in terms of the other disabilities from which the child may suffer . |
| 8 | You could find it useful to comment on past reactions and to ask for a fresh angle : ‘ When we 've talked about having some staff working from home , we 've always got bogged down in cost factors regarding the technology needed . |
| 9 | The committees are empowered to take evidence from ministers , civil servants and outside experts and to call for the necessary papers and records . |
| 10 | A tendency to absorb smaller houses and to engage in a conscious policy of territorial expansion appears to have marked their behaviour in the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 12 | Nuclear Electric , a third generating company , was to be established to take control of the nuclear power stations and to remain in the public sector . |
| 13 | Like modern reform Judaism , it wished to discard laws of purity of time , space and bodily fluids and to focus on the ethical and universalist aspects of the biblical faith . |
| 14 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |
| 15 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 16 | More than ever before , this was a war in which one side was strongly supported by the mass of the population at large , sufficiently so for the New Model Army to be recruited from the mass of the peasantry in selected regions and to aspire to a meritocratic , rather than aristocratic , officer corps . |
| 17 | He will be required to compensate the local people for the stolen logs and to pay for an environmental recovery plan for the damaged area . |
| 18 | I would here like to give two examples of such skewed populations and to speculate on the seeming anomaly . |
| 19 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 20 | A recent communiqué states : ‘ The Church of Christ in Zaire urges the entire political class , and particularly the present administration , to renounce the pursuit of selfish interests and to submit to the common good expressed by the will of the people ’ . |
| 21 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 22 | To model such processes and to discriminate between the various mechanisms that are invoked to account for the genesis of the deposits requires a reliable estimate of the age of mineralisation . |
| 23 | In our democracy , Standard English confers power on its users , power to explain political issues and to persuade on a national and international stage . |
| 24 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 25 | One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term . |
| 26 | The pilot was instructed to taxi along the southern taxiway passing to the north of the refuelling pumps and to park on the main apron . |
| 27 | Teachers are trained to develop the individual potential of their students and to teach through an improvised accompaniment which brings out the dynamic quality of the movement . |
| 28 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 29 | Leaflets were distributed throughout Kuwait City attacking the government 's failure to organize food supplies and to plan for a swift restoration of water and electricity supplies . |
| 30 | For Wolf was " the first to present a systematic description of the vast fabric that he called by the name of Altertumswissenschaft , to arrange and review its component parts and to point to a perfect knowledge of the many-sided life of the ancient Greeks and Romans as the final goal of the modern study of the ancient world . |