Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting , as an aside , that though this may seem obvious , one has only to observe parents with children , or to catch oneself as a parent saying ‘ Do n't be so childish ! ’ to one 's three-year-old , to realize that the reminder remains necessary . |
| 2 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |
| 3 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 4 | Either they dispute the sceptic 's right to assert the conclusion , or to assert it as a conclusion ; or they suggest directly that the conclusion can not be true , and that hence they are excused from considering any suggested reason for believing it . |
| 5 | Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi , or to use him as an alibi for themselves . |
| 6 | In the face of the fundamentalists ' electoral success , the FLN political bureau on June 17 issued a statement rejecting " all attempts to return Islam to the era of charlatanism and myths or to use it as an instrument of demagogy and political opportunism " . |
| 7 | So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse . |
| 8 | Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether . |
| 9 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 10 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 11 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 12 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 13 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 14 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 15 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 16 | In that case Engineering and Chemicals Supplies Limited ( ECS ) , a small producer of organic peroxides , alleged that the UK subsidiary of Akzo , a large Dutch multinational company , had abused its dominant position in the relevant market by implementing a policy of selective and below cost price-cutting designed to damage ECS 's business and to exclude it as a competitor from the specialised sub-market in the flour additives sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 17 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 18 | He argues that a central aim of Conservatism has been ‘ to discredit the social democratic concept of universal citizenship rights , guaranteed and enforced through public agencies , and to replace it with a concept of citizenship rights achieved through property ownership and participation in markets ’ . |
| 19 | Not only was he being fearfully indiscreet , but it was said that he had been foolish enough actually to marry her and to install her in a cottage in the palace grounds . |
| 20 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 21 | This great designer has an uncanny ability to capture the prevailing mood of the moment and to rework it in a way that can suddenly seem understandable , even wearable , and invariably highly influential . |
| 22 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 23 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 24 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 25 | But Qaddafi 's promise to abolish the state was not a policy in this sense : it was a promise to change the structure of political activity , and to do it in an area over which sovereigns have more or less complete control . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 27 | The idea we are putting to you is to keep a diary of certain of the major aspects of the course and to use it as an aid to reflection and learning . |
| 28 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 29 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 30 | They came out of the East End to save the charts from unrebellious tat and to save themselves from a life in and out of prison . |