Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have done nothing — absolutely nothing ! — to compromise your professional integrity , or to lose you the respect of your colleagues . |
| 2 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 3 | Wear sunlit shades to give your looks a lift — enhancing a tan , prolonging it , or to give yourself a slight sun-kissed healthy shimmer . |
| 4 | The proportion of tax paid decreases with increases in income : or to put it the other way round — the proportion of tax paid increases at lower levels of income compared with higher levels . |
| 5 | The difference which justifies the labels is the period to maturity of the debts , or to put it the other way round , the length of time for which the funds are borrowed . |
| 6 | But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ? |
| 7 | Yes , that 's right , or to put it the other way round , Sarah , whenever you start speech , whenever you start writing down what the wor the words somebody actually says , Louisa , Yvette , concentrate hard you always use a capital letter . |
| 8 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 9 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 10 | If , for example , the landlord is entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out substantial improvements or to reconstruct it the tenant may be able to defeat a claim to determine his tenancy on the ground of demolition and reconstruction ( Heath v Drown [ 1973 ] AC 498 ) . |
| 11 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 12 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 13 | If that did n't work , it was more logical to let her express her anger in the safety of her mother 's arms than to give her an irrelevant bottle , dummy or biscuit . |
| 14 | ‘ Adolph , I would like nothing better than to give you the chance to start your life again , but Colonel Goreng … he 's the cautious one . |
| 15 | The trick is to keep the line direct to the float , without disturbing the float more than to give it a slight lift . |
| 16 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 17 | Anyone would think there was a law which stipulated that to call yourself a specialist in private medicine , you needed the necessary training and experience . |
| 18 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 19 | We might even say that to call it a statement is misleading . |
| 20 | He knew better than to ask her the time ; she was edgy enough as it was . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know as I d I d although to tell you the truth I 've always had a weakness for pictures ever since I was a boy . |
| 22 | As to the second criticism , it is true that a talking-head programme does n't provide visual clues as to content , but it does permit the language learner to watch as well as listen , to see lip movements and facial expressions and to see what the speaker looks like . |
| 23 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 24 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 25 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 26 | The user of the system provides expertise because he will have to understand and respond to the system , he will have to interpret the questions asked by the system and to know what the scope and limitations of the system are . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 28 | It is an indication that your weight is too far forward and to avoid it the feet should be positioned further back and more weight should be placed on the back foot . |
| 29 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 30 | Always train with these mitts to get used to the additional range they allow , and to experience what an acceptable impact feels like . |