Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they were totally unwilling to join the Party or even to vote for its national and local candidates . |
| 2 | You might also use it to reduce your overdraft , to achieve discounts for early payment or simply to enjoy for your personal requirements . |
| 3 | In the meantime , the Board is looking for ways to fund the deficit should it continue , but has decided not to charge the deficit as an additional burden upon those residents who are able to pay their own way from their own resources , and not to move from its established principle of offering care to those most in need towards a degenerate policy of offering care only to those who are most able to pay . |
| 4 | — not to use force or threaten the use of force against the Persian Gulf countries , and not to interfere in their internal affairs ; |
| 5 | Impartial advice can be hard to find nowadays , but your solicitor is bound by the Law Society 's rules to give this kind of help , and always to act in your best interests . |
| 6 | We hear that progress has been rather slow of late but feel this has less to do with the quality of Swan Vesta the boys are using and more to do with their strange diets . |
| 7 | After decades of trying to become big competitors , they were determined to learn as much as they could as suppliers to America 's Boeing , the world 's biggest civil-aircraft maker , and then to stand on their own . |
| 8 | She was a careful , punctilious girl but one who did not like responsibility , not even the responsibility of knowing when and how to lie for her superior . |
| 9 | If at any stage you wish to go beyond your daily existence and to ask for the knowledge of how you can reach your higher self , then your guide will teach you about the workings of your mind , your intellect and how to rise from your lower mental being into that of perfection . |
| 10 | Managers have had to make difficult choices about where and how to compete with their limited resources . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever style the man uses , the woman gets the message very clearly : It 's up to her to figure out how to keep him happy and how to adjust to his everchanging demands . |
| 12 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 13 | This requires the individual to give up his right to free use of some or all NHS services and instead to look after his own health needs , either in the private sector or by paying the NHS . |
| 14 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 15 | Plenty of fissures , but nowhere to hide for anything bigger than a lizard . |