Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will help her calculate what quantities of tin openers to order , or to plan a promotion campaign at the beginning of February . |
| 2 | The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem . |
| 3 | They have doubts about their ability to tell their partners what they want or to sense a woman 's requirements . |
| 4 | It requires a far finer tuning that that of any ordinary human radio to be able to pick up specific molecular electromagnetic emissions , or to sense a pheromone in any other way . |
| 5 | They were less likely to have a general practitioner with an interest in diabetes ( χ 2 =21.7 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) or to attend a practice with a miniclinic ( χ 2 =42.6 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) . |
| 6 | The Thatcher approach was to employ small teams to tackle specific problems or to issue a set of proposals , and then wait for the howls of |
| 7 | Do you want to make regular contributions to an investment plan , or to invest a lump sum ? |
| 8 | The buyer as well as the seller will often have documents to sign ; for example , if the transfer or other document contains covenants by the buyer ( to observe restrictions or to erect a fence , or on a joint purchase ) the document vesting the property in him , her or them will require execution . |
| 9 | The greater the effort needed to resolve a puzzle or to see a thing ‘ whole ’ , the greater is the experience of tension or pressure . |
| 10 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 12 | Their specific duty is to prevent a breach of the peace or to enforce a court order ; for example , access . |
| 13 | The answer is to listen carefully before buying , or to arrange a hum loan ( usually against the cash price ) from a dealer with alternatives on offer . |
| 14 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 15 | Write or call now for a comprehensive information pack or to arrange a showhouse visit . |
| 16 | Major construction companies are often prepared to invest their own funds in a project , or to arrange a loan on their own behalf in return for construction work . |
| 17 | Another possibility is to decorate the mount of a pressed flower picture with small groups of flowers , or to arrange a design on a plain backing with no mount , and then create the effect of photographic corners with single flowers and a couple of leaves , arranged about 2. 5cm ( 1in ) in from each corner of the frame . |
| 18 | All members are entitled to make or to support a nomination for any vacancy amongst the officers and the elected members of Council and boards subject , where appropriate , to members hip of a particular Division , association with a particular district , or professional membership . |
| 19 | Wall lights are best if they are directional and used to bounce light off a ceiling or floor , or to light a picture or piece of wall . |
| 20 | If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child . |
| 21 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 22 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 23 | I meant to try again and better , either to get at him , or to find a messenger who would carry word to Harry inside Parfois . |
| 24 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 25 | These may be to make as large a profit as possible for the organisation 's owners , in the case of private enterprise , or to provide a service in the case of non-profit-making organisations or government departments and institutions . |
| 26 | Special paints are designed to cope with conditions that ordinary paints will not withstand , or to provide a surface that satisfies a certain need , eg fire retarding or damp-proofing . |
| 27 | Mood-altering substances or behaviours may be discovered by the individual sufferer specifically to alleviate the disorder of mood or to provide a sense of elation . |
| 28 | … it is not the object of the Bill to make prostitution illegal , or to provide a cure for prostitution . |
| 29 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 30 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |