Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 2 | I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others . |
| 3 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 4 | It was formed to elicit an open-ended response , which can not be quantified , other than to note that only two of the respondents answered negatively . |
| 5 | This may , however , turn out to be hokum and Saturday 's Stradey celebration probably provided an imperfect guide to the two clubs ' chances , other than to reveal that here at least there is no chance of capitulation . |
| 6 | He rose then as if to go but impulsively Robyn caught at the sleeve of his robe . |
| 7 | Yes , we need to agree this , unpalatable as it is , to go forwards to P and R , to expose what the five percent reduction is , and to indicate as well to P and R other points that we , we want to say about these specific services . |
| 8 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 9 | … children are used to feeling dissatisfied with their work , to expect chiding from the teacher and often mockery from their friends and to find that even when they 've tried their hardest , the results do n't reflect the amount of effort expended . |
| 10 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 11 | and with us oh God and according to you we are to one church a church which opens doors and large windows a church which takes the world seriously ready to work and to suffer and even to for it and we follow and witness to him who is the saviour of the world Jesus Christ our Lord amen . |
| 12 | The IDBs , who are in constant contact with all GEMMs , will be able to match offers to buy and to sell and so localised shortages and surpluses of particular stocks will be quickly ironed out . |
| 13 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 14 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 15 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 16 | At the same time , through a process of collective discussion and education , peasant communities are being taught how to prevent the worst effects of pesticide on themselves and their families , and to identify and immediately treat the symptoms of poisoning . |
| 17 | Friendship as well as marriage is a two-way affair and it is only when both parties have the opportunity to share problems , experiences and ideas and to give as well as take , that the relationship is a success . |
| 18 | During the first few days that Mr Reynolds was in hospital the main aims of his care were to confirm the diagnosis of carcinoma of the rectum , and to ensure that both Mr and Mrs Reynolds understood the implications of this . |
| 19 | The pre-meeting is essential to clarify the teacher 's aims and objectives and to ensure that as far as possible these can be met . |
| 20 | The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years . |
| 21 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 22 | But they go on to represent these examples as limited qualifications to their general thesis and to argue that nevertheless ‘ literacy fosters the specialisation of the logical functions of language resulting in a focus on sentence meaning per se ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 23 | ( f ) To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined and to hold or otherwise deal with any investments made . |
| 24 | ( f ) To invest and deal with the moneys of the Company not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined and to hold or otherwise deal with any investments made . |
| 25 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 26 | Several hon. and hon. and learned Members who are present , some of whom have already spoken , have , like me , had the opportunity over the years in their professional lives to meet corrupt and evil people and to examine and sometimes cross-examine them in court . |
| 27 | Safe : Distribution systems need to be safe in their own right and to facilitate or even promote safe working as far as possible . |
| 28 | She was to tell me what she was doing and to stop as soon as she wanted to . |
| 29 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |
| 30 | The League had little alternative but to disband and thus allow its members to continue their campaign within the Labour Party as individuals . |