Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 First , the determination of capacity to consent or to withhold consent is not made by the patient , but by those treating him .
2 This is a misconception because the next of kin has no legal right either to consent or to refuse consent .
3 Bit by bit , the treasurer 's range of choice has widened beyond the basic questions of whether or not to borrow or to raise equity capital .
4 The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules .
5 7.1 Warranty re-convictions The Tenant warrants that prior to the execution of this Lease [ it ] has disclosed to the Landlord in writing any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director or other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue insurance of any of the Insured Risks The landlord may wish to include this in order to protect its position resulting from insurance contracts being uberrimae fidei , with the resultant obligation to disclose to the insurers material facts within its actual or presumed knowledge .
6 In this the Commission is charged with keeping all State aids under continuous review , and member states are required to provide prior notification of any plans to grant or to alter aid .
7 They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways .
8 The account of global politics that I have given here derives in part from such a paradigm , in which I emphasize the importance throughout the twentieth century of the opposition between capitalism and socialism , and more generally between those processes and policies which tend either to increase or to diminish inequality in its diverse forms , within societies and in the world as a whole .
9 A request to a person to appear or to give evidence must be in the language of the place where the evidence is to be taken , unless the witness is a national of the requesting State .
10 If the requested State has not filed a declaration under Article 18 , and measures of compulsion are not available by other means under internal law , the request must state that he is not compelled to appear or to give evidence .
11 The characteristic products are books or articles , and review articles : these enable members of a scattered community to communicate and to develop knowledge and polemic .
12 With its interest in cultural representation , the stories people tell about themselves , New Historicism is concerned to explore not only how the Renaissance fashioned itself , but how our present cultural categories allow us both to write and to understand culture .
13 Labour will ensure that the 3 million people on the pile of human misery known as the dole queue will be given a chance to work and to provide tax and insurance .
14 Extra filtration would be added and to save time it was decided that a 4′ water tank would be used for this purpose .
15 In either case , in order to obtain and to retain business it is necessary to cultivate and accumulate knowledge of the client 's requirements and of his record , so as to be able to offer him attractive terms .
16 Goody , nevertheless , believes that such individuals are more likely to appear and to have scope for challenge in societies with the ‘ technology ’ of literacy .
17 Internal friction , as measured , for example , by damped free oscillations of a pendulum , may be related to creep and to stress relaxation if the deformations are small enough for linear viscoelasticity to be assumed .
18 On the penultimate page of Black Skin , White Masks Fanon declares that one of the things that he , the man of colour , wants is ‘ that it be possible for me to discover and to love man , wherever he may be ’ .
19 Numerous requests for this purpose could impose an intolerable burden and not all of those requests would admit of a ready answer , having regard to the Director of Public Prosecution 's duty to prosecute and to make use of the most cogent evidence , particularly in a very serious case of great notoriety .
20 The Greek miracle-worker or thaumatourgos , in order to have his marvels recognized , needed a martus , a witness , to observe and to spread word of what he had seen .
21 The average human being learns , under proper conditions , not only to accept but to seek responsibility .
22 The Rubenesque hype merchant does n't know whether to blame wife or workmates .
23 Salmon explains that " Colletts and Gallaher agreed that to follow competition and cut price would show a short-term benefit in sales , but set up a long-term " imagery " problem .
24 Again this film led to boycotts and demonstrations and seemed to confirm that to make propaganda films was to invite box-office coolness and critical hostility .
25 The opportunity may , therefore , exist for settlement at this stage and there is no doubt that it is preferable so to proceed than to achieve settlement at the door of the Court .
26 In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now .
27 There will be the customary banquet and Ladies ' programme and companies wishing to exhibit or to provide sponsorship may still do so .
28 At both extremes of anorexia or bulimia the sufferers may use medications to induce vomiting or to reduce body fluid or to purge themselves either with laxatives or enemas or both .
29 It must also be noted that the liability to answer or to make discovery depends on the opinion of the judge .
30 The study will produce a detailed description and analysis of what young women know about sexuality and about AIDS ; the ideas which they have about risk , danger and control in sexual encounters ; how they behave sexually ; why they behave as they do , and what factors are likely to constrain or to encourage change in their behaviour .
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