Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not form healthy friendships with either women or men , and ‘ identified with abstract collectivities to compensate for their failure and/or inability to relate to individual human beings . ’ |
| 2 | The researcher must not impose any prior assumptions on the subject matter , and should allow any theory or hypothesis to emerge from what is observed and recorded . |
| 3 | Few companies , when first established , have the resources or expertise to operate outside their home market . |
| 4 | Parties may obtain discovery by one or more of the following methods : depositions upon oral examination or written questions ; written interrogatories ; production of documents or things or permission to enter upon land or other property , for inspection and other purposes ; physical and mental examinations ; and requests for admission . |
| 5 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 6 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 7 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 8 | This may well be so , but a presiding officer who , without good cause , interferes or attempts to interfere with a voter when recording his vote commits an offence ( 1983 Act , s.63 and 66(3Xa) ) and he would need , therefore , to be sure of his ground . |
| 9 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 11 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 12 | Girls in school uniform , women in hospital nightgowns , mothers struggling with poverty , who have no time or money to spend on their appearance , can feel that they are being depersonalized . |
| 13 | The return of a Fianna Fáil government under Jack Lynch meant something of a decline in Anglo-Irish cordiality or willingness to collaborate in security matters , while the end of the constitutional assembly in early 1977 had removed any prospect of finding any viable Ulster administration to modify the picture of direct rule from Westminster . |
| 14 | In popular belief , adults would take years or generations to adapt to spelling change , although in this decade vaster changes have taken place in everything else . |
| 15 | Whether the issue is whether to buy a motor motor bike , what college or university to apply for , or what job to look for , a calm discussion of all the factors involved is far more fruitful than teenage demand met by flat parental refusal , with no real thinking on either side . |
| 16 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 17 | In a rapidly changing world , preoccupied by Eastern Europe , the American Administration may not have the time or patience to devote to Israelis and Palestinians . |
| 18 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 19 | At worst , they merely signal a reluctance or inability to grapple with those problems . |
| 20 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 21 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 22 | In addition to placing the baby on its back or side to sleep under a cot blanket , parents are advised to avoid duvets and sheepskins . |
| 23 | A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning . |
| 24 | One is the loss of flexibility : there is a tension between the objective of promoting economic efficiency in different market situations , and the need to provide rules or guidelines to indicate to firms the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable market structures or conduct . |
| 25 | GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 . |
| 26 | There is nothing left either in womanpower or funds to devote to blowing our own trumpet , so we have been unable to impress you with the extent and importance of our work . |
| 27 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 28 | To avoid having a large number of small accounts in the ledger it is often the case in some hotels to ask members of groups or parties to pay for ‘ extras ’ at time of service . |
| 29 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed . |
| 30 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing should be removed . |