Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision came in the wake of an announcement by Bush on May 3 cancelling plans to modernize short-range Lance missiles and nuclear artillery in readiness for a " triple-zero " agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce or eliminate all short-range land-based nuclear missiles in Europe . |
| 2 | The challenge is to produce a car which is more attractive to more people and costs less to make , and to minimise or eliminate any social embarrassment in running one . |
| 3 | It 's not hard to kill or damage any one it 'll be a long old day today I reckon , dragging already . |
| 4 | The new Army Commander , Gen. Vimol Wongwanich , promised to unify the Army and on Aug. 7 ordered commanders of all army units not to intervene in politics or do anything to help or hinder any political party . |
| 5 | Neither Henry 's pre-existing contacts in Rome nor the special envoys sent out from England were able to improve or circumvent this adverse diplomatic situation . |
| 6 | Anticipating such conflicts , many may conclude that we do not need or want this genetic knowledge . |
| 7 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 8 | Save for … but he refused in his quaint but thoroughly determined way to evade or apologize any more . |
| 9 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 10 | The major problem with investigating the effects of human sexual scents is that many of our actions are dictated by our conscious mind which can moderate or overrule these unconscious influences . |
| 11 | Paul 's verdict : I found myself opting to wear or carry these simple track-suit-style pants more and more often . |
| 12 | do these figures include or exclude that sub-let |
| 13 | As far as I could see , every one of those off-worlders was an owner ( or the employee of one ) , there to claim or deposit some personal valuables . |
| 14 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 15 | FETAL DEATH is death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception , irrespective the duration of pregnancy ; the death is indicated by the fact that after separation the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life , such as beating of the heart , pulsation of the umbilical cord , or definite movement of voluntary muscles . |
| 16 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |
| 17 | She did not read or sew any more , but used to sit there silently , staring into the distance . |
| 18 | The 62-year-old actress declared : ‘ So many children are barely alive , children who can not smile or see any more . |
| 19 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 20 | However , vehicle owners will be given the opportunity to move or remove any such item beforehand . |
| 21 | Which beliefs or attitudes might block or limit this particular dream ? |
| 22 | For various reasons it has proved impractical to find or create any alternative access to the port and that is likely to remain the position at least until the third Medway crossing and northern link road project comes to pass . |
| 23 | ‘ You have to have a massive show of force to contain or control any riotous situation , ’ says the mayor . |
| 24 | They failed to reflect the political spectrum in its entirety and they tended to exclude or denigrate all those who strayed outside the centre of the political stage . |
| 25 | Happily , apart from patients with high-grade obstruction within the alimentary tract , or with coeliac disease , dietary fibre in its natural state in food has not been shown to cause or exacerbate any human disease in the Western population . |
| 26 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
| 27 | In giving this right , the Act does not remove or alter any other rights of the consumer , e.g. under the Sale of Goods Act or the law of negligence . |
| 28 | They do not necessarily reflect or indicate any academic achievement . |
| 29 | As early as 1566 , the Earl of Sussex had pointed out that Calvinism was being preached throughout the country , and after 1570 it was difficult to hear or read any non-Calvinist theology . |
| 30 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |