Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | those , those read it thought yes , this is , this is , I 've got nothing to object to , nothing to er to write and complain about , or nothing to take issue with , so anyway I , I find that encouraging . |
2 | There are millions of people who admit to being members of the two Christian churches and their various sects , but who do little or nothing to give substance to that admission . |
3 | ‘ The road is too narrow for a pedestrian refuge but we have to consider a pedestrian crossing or something to improve safety . ’ |
4 | Plaited flex certainly but it probably had a large knot or something to increase pressure in the region of the larynx . ’ |
5 | Whether a court would grant a patient an order requiring a doctor or whoever to cease treatment , to ‘ pull the plug ’ , is not yet known in England . |
6 | How many truly realise that quality is knowing your buyer , getting him or her to define quality , rather than producing some sort of static standard which demands slavish conformance ? |
7 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
8 | The second type is where the child has a disability which prevents or makes it difficult for him or her to make use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools — within the LEA 's area — for children of his/her age . |
9 | If the sufferer loses his or her employment , this may be exactly the stimulus that ultimately leads him or her to seek recovery . |
10 | It is advisable that the social worker should have at least a knowledge of the laws of various churches on sexual and marital affairs which enables him or her to seek advice from the right source if a client might be affected . |
11 | By getting a Sponsor , one of whose functions may be to act as a mirror and reflect back the attitudes and behaviour of the sufferer , helping him or her to gain insight into self and establish goals for further improvement in recovery through guidance on the 12 Steps . |
12 | They are obviously extremely concerned about him , concerned for his safety , and again they 'd really like to get in touch with him or him to make contact with the family or the police . |
13 | How is she or he to make sense of the fact that the Christian tradition has reigned for two thousand years ? |
14 | ‘ It would take more than you to take advantage of me . |
15 | After a while my wife suggested that we to go Spring Harvest at Minehead ( a week of celebration and worship etc. with 10,000 Christians ) . |
16 | Robert said that we to spend money said the opposite so doubtful |
17 | Guitars themselves have become revered icons rather than something to play music with . |
18 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
19 | Each criterion will be specific enough for Bill and me to judge performance against it without hesitation and to reach the same conclusion , . |
20 | However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients . |
21 | But how much longer can these companies survive with nothing to sell to bring in revenue but plenty to spend money on ? |
22 | It was as though he had taken a drug , not one to make him hallucinate but one to end hallucination . |
23 | Nevertheless such a refusal is a very important consideration in making clinical judgments and for parents and the court in deciding whether themselves to give consent . |
24 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |