Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Knowles suggests that a Liverpool speaker first has to choose whether to merge these classes or not , before further deciding whether to apply a number of lower-level optional rules .
2 If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post .
3 On 28 February Cork County Council was to meet to decide whether to grant planning permission .
4 Impartial Guidance : Magistrates are expected to decide whether to grant access to parents , guardians or custodians , and , if they do so , to determine the conditions of access .
5 Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs .
6 With the ACE ODT developers ' kit for DEC 's R3000-based machines under its belt ( UX No 366 ) , SCO has to decide whether to continue work on HAL , ACE 's hardware abstraction layer , a version of which is required for each port of ODT to an ACE member 's MIPS platform .
7 ‘ But the matter is now with the Crown Prosecution Service , which has to decide whether to proceed . ’
8 Now manager Denis Smith has to decide whether to risk Dziekanowski against West Ham tonight as City chase a first home win .
9 Now the CPS has to decide whether to press further charges or alternative charges after receiving a file from Cleveland Police following the death .
10 The WRU now has to decide whether to take its ultimate sanction and expel the 18 from membership .
11 ‘ If he does n't come , the Disciplinary Committe then has to decide whether to go ahead with the inquiry in his absence , ’ said the Jockey Club 's Sue Williams .
12 Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again .
13 He can do nothing , though , because the stuffing is coming out of the armchair he is sitting in , and before anything else can happen he has to decide whether to get it re-covered or buy a new one .
14 Similarly one has to decide whether to read ‘ misled ’ as ‘ mis-led ’ or as ‘ misl-ed ’ , assuming a verb to ‘ misle ’ …
15 Another aspect of this problem arises when the researcher has to decide whether to become involved in criminal activity .
16 An office manager has to decide whether to change the procedures in his office for handling routine transactions .
17 Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road .
18 When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference .
19 With these nine potential partners in addition to teachers , parents and other phases of education , the manager has to decide whether to seek a broad partnership or the separate involvement of individual co-operators .
20 Aragorn has to choose between going to Mordor or to Minas Tirith ; delays , and then finds himself choosing between Sam and Frodo or Merry and pippin ; picks one quest , and then has to decide whether to rest or pursue by night .
21 Ten-year-old Marvin Grugel has to decide whether to don the red or blue , with both Liverpool and Everton fighting for his signature .
22 Within one month of receiving the notification , the Commission has to decide whether to approve the merger or to open proceedings .
23 He refuses to elaborate except to add that ‘ it was rough-housing all the way ’ .
24 Today committee members were meeting to decide whether to close the school down .
25 After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee .
26 After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee .
27 A council is meeting to decide whether to chop more than sixteen million pounds off its budget .
28 By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future .
29 The UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed concern at the constitutional implications of the judgment but pointed out that it was left to UK courts to decide whether to exercise the powers .
30 A shy bird , much preferring to run than to fly .
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