Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | Whether you prefer to sell 100% for an immediate cash payment or to receive a smaller upfront payment and a deferred payment , determined by an earnout or retention or a minority stake with a pre-arranged exit . |
| 3 | The magazine yesterday launched an appeal , which it called ‘ Lemon Fund ’ to raise money for an eventual settlement or to finance an appeal . |
| 4 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 5 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 6 | For he has this grace , that he is happy to eat fish fingers or Chinese takeaway or to cook the supper himself . |
| 7 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 8 | Hence it is difficult to derive accurate and spatially-representative predictions of the impact of future land-use change or to examine the long-term stability of lake ecosystems in the face of repeated episodes of accelerated nutrient input . |
| 9 | The other system requires a device to measure the load in the cable or to control the maximum pull that the vehicle will provide . |
| 10 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 11 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
| 12 | This new dynamic competition comes from products and processes which threaten a firm 's knowledge base and challenge its dominant competence to enhance its current knowledge base or to establish a new one . |
| 13 | However , because of subsequent technological developments , integrated circuits , magnetic disks and tapes and optical character readers now are used to enter information into a computer or to store the programs which control the computer . |
| 14 | for a pause at the end of a sentence or to show the end of an abbreviation . |
| 15 | The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years . |
| 16 | It 's easy to overlook the need to register after a sale and purchase have been completed , for example , when acting for a seller to register newly imposed restrictive covenants , or for a lessee to register an option to buy the reversion or to renew the lease . |
| 17 | The prime purpose might be to make money or to achieve a measure of self-sufficiency . |
| 18 | In my practice we increased our practice nurse staffing by 50% and provided a range of responsible and relevant health promotion clinics , in the spirit of the 1990 charter , but now face the prospect of a substantial reduction in income or to make the nurses redundant . |
| 19 | A classic example of the latter category is a decision not to appoint or not to promote an employee or office holder or to fail an examinee . |
| 20 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But the portrait that has been drawn of respectable women rising from the marriage bed to insert the sponge or to draw the condom over the ‘ burning machine ’ , seems unlikely to have been the norm . |
| 22 | The second-level decision required is whether or not to authorize further research or to abandon the project at decision node 2b . |
| 23 | The second-level decision required is whether or not to authorize further research or to abandon the project at decision node 2b . |
| 24 | But , if you want the cash buy a car or to make a major home improvement we have special tailormade schemes . |
| 25 | It is usually the responsibility of the engineer to approve the alternative offered by the contractor or to suggest a possible solution . |
| 26 | These offer the variety and flexibility essential for teachers wanting to supplement an existing programme or to develop a programme of their own . |
| 27 | In the Fourth Duma ( 1912–17 ) the government showed little concern to defuse opposition or to exploit the deep divisions between its more moderate critics and the small minority of radical Left deputies . |
| 28 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 29 | It will be impractical , for example , to go to the market too often for new equity or to get the debt-equity ratio too far out of line . |
| 30 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |