Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People desperate to conceive can sometimes enter fertility programmes without enough space to query how far they are prepared to go , to resolve any differences between the partners , or to mourn their personal loss in not being able to produce a child naturally . |
| 2 | Oddly enough I did n't set out from wherever I come from to trespass on your island , or to lose my wretched memory . |
| 3 | One of the major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 4 | From time to time the main Party had to intervene to help out the youngsters or to curb their youthful enthusiasms . |
| 5 | People often ask questions to bolster your status as presenter or to bolster their own status in the audience . |
| 6 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 7 | Rather than finishing school and entering work , young people were as likely to enter training schemes , temporary college courses , part time and temporary employment , odd jobs of all kinds or to find themselves unemployed as they were to find jobs directly . |
| 8 | Within hours of the reports appearing in the press , vets and cat sanctuaries were flooded with requests to have cats destroyed or to find them new homes . |
| 9 | someone invites you to a party or to try something new/different |
| 10 | To see your fabulous new system — or to provoke your fabulous live-in lover ? ’ |
| 11 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 12 | Members have the opportunity to paint or sketch from still-life arrangements or a model or to choose their own subject matter . |
| 13 | In Rosa Luxemburg 's view this forced nations either to be assimilated into an existing empire or to create their own empire . |
| 14 | It may be very difficult for the supplier 's marketing department to identify all of the individual sources of influence , or to evaluate their relative significance . |
| 15 | Why not call for a copy of the latest edition of our brochure ‘ PRACTICAL AND CREATIVE CONTRACT CARPETING ’ or to discuss your next project ? |
| 16 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 17 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
| 18 | Do you prefer structure in your exercise or to do your own thing ? |
| 19 | She loved it here , loved all of Ibiza and Santa Eulalia in particular — or to give its full , grand title , Santa Eulalia del Rio . |
| 20 | If the tribunal decides that the dismissal was unfair then it has the power to order the employer to give the employee his old job back or to give him another job . |
| 21 | To find the way , or to give you any advices . |
| 22 | Yet here the counsellor faces the problem of whether to delve into the difficult past , or to leave it alone . |
| 23 | The game of tables skittles , or to use its traditional name ‘ Devil Among the Tailors ’ , is a pub game which originated in London in 1783 . |
| 24 | The National Trust ( or to use its full name , the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty ) was founded in 1895 . |
| 25 | At the same time they have been reluctant to support the extension of legal aid in libel cases , or to put their own house in order by strengthening the Press Council ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 26 | Or to put it another way : on the representational theory of mind , all learning is the testing of hypotheses which are already represented in the mind in some form ( for instance as sentences ) . |
| 27 | Or to put it another way , it 's like a Birmingham City player when … |
| 28 | He put it as follows : ‘ Marxism is essentially atheistic , or to put it another way : it is atheism which provides the radical aspect of the Marxist philosophy of life . |
| 29 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 30 | Doctors are expected to assess medical needs ; nurses are themselves expert at assessing nursing need , or to put it another way , at assessing the need for nursing aspects of care . |