Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 2 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 3 | ( 9 ) For the purpose of ensuring that a transfer of Shares is duly authorised hereunder or that no circumstances have arisen whereby the Directors are empowered to require that a Transfer Notice be given or to resolve that a Transfer Notice be deemed to have been given the Directors may from time to time require any Member or past Member or the legal personal representatives , trustee in bankruptcy , liquidator , administrator or administrative receiver of any Member or any person named as transferee in any instrument of transfer lodged for registration to furnish to the Company such information and evidence as the Directors may think fit regarding any matter which they may deem relevant to such purpose . |
| 4 | This is the power to stop things happening or to delay or disrupt them . |
| 5 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 6 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 7 | and with us oh God and according to you we are to one church a church which opens doors and large windows a church which takes the world seriously ready to work and to suffer and even to for it and we follow and witness to him who is the saviour of the world Jesus Christ our Lord amen . |
| 8 | Perfectionism is out of place in war and the practical problem was to condemn and ground those gliders which were dangerously attacked and to detect and stop the rot in those in which the attack was trivial . |
| 9 | The purpose of community intervention is not simply to observe but to ensure that treatment is sustained for those whose illness , in terms of either severity or nature , warrants this . |
| 10 | One does n't know whether to telephone or what . |
| 11 | Pete did n't know whether to duck or run , and the choice was fairly academic anyway , as for the moment his body seemed to be about as responsive as a sack of rocks . |
| 12 | And he did n't know whether to grin or grimace when it produced a point-saver from Wright after a link-up between Steve Bould and Lee Dixon . |
| 13 | They walked out into their new life , and Clare did n't know whether to envy or pity them . |
| 14 | The rear engine ooh she said the the key 's in Ken 's house and we all sat we did n't know whether to clap or get up and walk out , whether she 'd finished or not ! |
| 15 | Oh she do n't know whether to come and have food or go upstairs with you . |
| 16 | He did n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 17 | I did n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 18 | Pompey conceded two goals in the last minute , and Smith admitted : ‘ I do n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 19 | Frankly , we do n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 20 | The three of us did n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 21 | He did n't know whether to laugh or scream . |
| 22 | Bernice did n't know whether to laugh or cry , so she settled for sarcasm . |
| 23 | Athelstan knew Cranston loved to startle him , delighting in dramatic exits and entrances , and did n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 24 | He did not know whether to laugh or to weep . |
| 25 | The environmentalists do n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 26 | Mr. Mahmoud thought they were worth something like £60,000 , although he admitted that to realise that sum would require careful and skilled marketing . |
| 27 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 28 | It is entitled To Choose or to Lose and it proclaims a strategy ‘ developed against the background of the desire to solve or gain control of environmental problems within the duration of one generation ’ . |
| 29 | Likewise the ability to listen or to communicate or show enthusiasm and self-confidence know no organisational boundaries . |
| 30 | He refuses to elaborate except to add that ‘ it was rough-housing all the way ’ . |