Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 2 | Jenney wondered whether it is better to try and reduce congestion , or to let it increase , if we want fewer people to drive ? |
| 3 | To make this society work , or to allow it to operate , a non-arbitrary , or responsible , system of government was needed . |
| 4 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 5 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 6 | That 's all right — it is better to disperse the feeling than to let it build up . |
| 7 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 8 | There may be instances when the systematic abuse of conflict of interest situations will be tolerated on the basis that it is more efficient to permit the abuse than to have it eradicated . |
| 9 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 10 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 11 | Sroud District Council refused to comment on the Ropers case other than to say it had acted completely correctly in all its dealings with the couple . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I do n't wish to comment on the use of town hall rooms for this meeting , except to say it looks like another cheap political stunt by the Tories . ’ |
| 13 | I needed my own fairy-tale — my own legend — and to see it come true . |
| 14 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 15 | Later that year McNamara pressed for a conventional build-up by all the members of Nato so that a Warsaw Pact attack in the heart of Europe could be resisted long enough ( without recourse to nuclear weapons ) to persuade the USSR of the gravity of the situation and to encourage it to negotiate . |
| 16 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 17 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 18 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 19 | The accumulation on the ridges and swells is aided by the presence there of seaweed or flotsam , which tends to hinder the flow of the tide and to cause it to deposit the material it is carrying . |
| 20 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 21 | R.S. used Hill and Knowlton to research the five counties and to help it produce the relocation documentation . |
| 22 | The moment was too full of terror , of crashes and grunts , for her to hear the door unlocking behind her , and to hear it swing inwards . |
| 23 | From somewhere in the house she heard a sound and to cover it spoke again . |
| 24 | Now it seems to me obvious that there is such a problem , er and to deny it seems to me to be to be denying the obvious . |
| 25 | The class can simply tell him he has to go , but the moment of eviction is potentially highly charged and to let it slip by is to waste opportunities . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy . |
| 27 | Into this negativity goes all the support for our minds and all the arguments it needs to strengthen the intellect and to give it reasons not to shed its skin . |
| 28 | The needs of people to learn the language which is not speech , and to use it to interpret for members of the deaf community , test these theories to their limits . |
| 29 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 30 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |