Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi , or to use him as an alibi for themselves . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now , there 's an opportunity to save almost a further £500 — and to save it on a system you actually specify yourself … |
| 26 | An alternative approach , and the one which is adopted in this study , is to have drivers explicitly performing a driving experiment , though not one that appears to be related to memory , and to present them with a surprise memory test later in the experiment . |
| 27 | The 1.3Gb optical drive is jukebox-ready , and the company plans to integrate it into its line of optical disk libraries by late summer , and to offer it as an upgrade to its existing jukebox customers . |
| 28 | They employ us to carry out this work , to negotiate on their behalf with the combined forces of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise and to advise them on a multitude of matters from advertising costs to wage negotiations . |
| 29 | Acorn 's policy has been to buy up sound but somewhat shabby family-owned hotels as and when opportunity offers , and to renovate them to an extent consistent with the company 's ‘ image ’ of old-fashioned comfort . |
| 30 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |