Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |
| 3 | Differences on European defence policy [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ; 38155 ; 38216 ; 38295 ; 38313 ] emerged over Franco-German plans for a European force based in Strasbourg [ see p. 38554 ] , although responses were sufficiently guarded as to suggest a reluctance to revive transatlantic splits in NATO . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Below the front windows was a box extension of about two feet in length , so placed as to increase the space of the interior . |
| 6 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 7 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 8 | It was their duty ‘ so to work as to make proprietors or occupiers on a lower level as secure against injury as they would have been had nature not been interfered with . ’ |
| 9 | Another senior police officer who more than once captured the headlines , James Anderton , Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , decrying ‘ the rot that has now taken a firm hold in the fabric of our society ’ , was so moved as to describe crime as Britain 's ‘ Top Growth Industry ’ . |
| 10 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 11 | She paused , suddenly wondering whether to stick to her prepared story , or to change it . |
| 12 | The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away . |
| 13 | On the other hand , pressure of whatever character , whether acting on the fears or the hopes , if so exerted as to overpower the volition without convincing the judgment , is a species of restraint under which no valid will can be made . |
| 14 | They believe Tom was old enough to decide whether to support it . |
| 15 | Mr. Scrivener points out that , in the days of capital punishment , it was the practice for the Home Secretary personally to decide whether to recommend a reprieve ; and political memoirs record how seriously that responsibility was regarded . |
| 16 | Correct or not , this hypothesis does at least hint at the complexities which could have been involved when Æthelred 's counsellors sat down to decide whether to pay or fight , and offers one of a range of reasons why individual self-interest may have resulted in less fighting than might have been expected . |
| 17 | However , the basic concept of collecting and removing filth will not be affected , as any system which does not localise contaminants merely spreads them so think as to make the problem less obvious . |
| 18 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 19 | The British Navy thus became the dominant force between northern Britain and Norway , so poised as to frustrate any German sortie into the North Sea . |
| 20 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 21 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 22 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 23 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one is inadequately prepared than to begin too late and realize one is over-prepared . |
| 24 | I do not exist except to serve you and give you pleasure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The exhibition is a challenge too , she is aware of that , but does not know whether to accept . |
| 27 | He did not know whether to laugh or to weep . |
| 28 | She did not know whether to believe in him or not . |
| 29 | Privately , however , he was still sending conflicting signals to his supporters , some of whom got the impression that he had not decided whether to act . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal held that he was not guilty when he had not decided whether to use it or not . |