Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ New Courses ’ comprise combinations of units either developed nationally or locally to create a new course , i.e. one which leads to a qualification which is substantially different from existing provision but which meets a defined local or national need . |
| 2 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 3 | The argument goes that if we had short-range nuclear weapons at the front , in the event of a rapid advance there would always be the danger that a commander would have no choice but to use those weapons , either because he could not get rid of them back to headquarters , or perhaps to start a nuclear conflagration . |
| 4 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 5 | Some , including Portland , Oregon , charge $1 or so to recycle a tree . |
| 6 | According to market researchers the Gartner Group , it costs a company an astonishing £19,500 or so to run a single personal computer over a five-year period . |
| 7 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 8 | My advice to agencies : send someone out with a quid or so to buy a magazine before you advertise in it ; or better still , have those editorial folk over for a Gordon 's & Tonic . . . . |
| 9 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 10 | The introduction of new partners involves similar problems whether they arrive as part of an expansionary exercise or merely to replace a partner who has died or retired from the firm . |
| 11 | Boards can be painted all over in one colour , or individually to form a formal or striped or variegated pattern ; they can be stencilled , given a border , or topped with all sorts of imaginative decorative effects ( see Paint Finishes , pages 368–79 ) . |
| 12 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 13 | ( Of the 36 US states which used the death penalty , only three used gas , which , it was alleged , could take 12 minutes or more to kill a condemned prisoner . ) |
| 14 | Some evenings it would be a small group of half-a-dozen close friends , on red-letter nights a gathering of 100 or more to greet a visiting celebrity . |
| 15 | Whether you are leaving on a more or less amicable basis , perhaps just a luckless victim of business recession or a change in management style following a takeover , or in an atmosphere of mutual recrimination , it is usually possible sooner or later to strike a deal with the company which satisfies both sides . |
| 16 | If anyone believed that by wearing , bestowing or even consuming particular substances it was possible to avert poison and other evils or positively to advance a cause , it was comforting enough to ensure the continuity of such beliefs . |
| 17 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 18 | But in practice , as we have seen , courts have enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy thanks to the failure of successive governments over the years to develop an overall sentencing policy of their own , or even to articulate a coherent set of principles from which a jurisprudence of sentencing might emerge . |
| 19 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 20 | In the UK , the government has tried to limit the size of the PSBR , or even to run a PSDR , in order to keep monetary growth in check . |
| 21 | The customer may telephone to place an order ; to enquire about a product ; to ask about days and times of shop opening ; to complain about the quality of goods or service , or even to offer a word of praise |
| 22 | Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image . |
| 23 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 24 | There is no chance of a quiet evening slumped before the telly , or even to read a novel . |
| 25 | But " originality " presents a difficult problem because ( unless you are doing advanced research ) you are unlikely to be in a position to advance new facts or radically new interpretations , or even to have a wide enough knowledge of what other people have written to be sure that you are not duplicating it . |
| 26 | As a consequence it is essential to abrade the surface of a coin ( on its edge ) , or alternatively to drill a sample from its centre ( typically using a 1- or o.5-mm drill from the edge of the coin ) . |
| 27 | The caravan already has a busy diary for the summer but anyone interested in having it along to a community event , or simply to visit a neighbourhood , should contact their local divisional police headquarters and ask for the crime prevention officer . |
| 28 | Most people like some form of bedside lighting — either for reading in bed or simply to create a cosy atmosphere . |
| 29 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 30 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |