Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give reasons or to withhold them ? |
| 2 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 3 | You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them . |
| 4 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 5 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 6 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 7 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 8 | International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions . |
| 9 | We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us . |
| 10 | If , for example , the landlord is entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out substantial improvements or to reconstruct it the tenant may be able to defeat a claim to determine his tenancy on the ground of demolition and reconstruction ( Heath v Drown [ 1973 ] AC 498 ) . |
| 11 | Parents can not always be on the spot to point out the sensible course of action , to remind children about the rules or to enforce them . |
| 12 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 13 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 14 | Education and housing departments , water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work . |
| 15 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 16 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 17 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 18 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 19 | They had no aspirations to be patrons of the arts and to regale themselves like proletarian Ludwig IIs with grand opera or private performances of the classics . |
| 20 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
| 21 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 22 | It is the policy of the Government to encourage our exporters and to congratulate them . |
| 23 | To get more foxes and to get them distributed more evenly over the country , gorse covers and spinneys were started by hunting landlords in well-chosen spots . |
| 24 | It is part of an attempt to deter potential recruits and to distract us from concluding that it is men who are the cause of women 's oppression , not anyone else . |
| 25 | Horsewatch encourages its members to look out for each others animals and to improve their own security measures . |
| 26 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 27 | Then I know it is my duty to score goals and to bring something to the team . |
| 28 | Residents at Wesley Court , Darlington , held the event on Saturday to help pay for day trips and to replace their karaoke machine stolen last month . |
| 29 | So what you really have from the government is a set of guidelines , and it will now be up to each Local Education Authority to interpret those guidelines and to make their own provision . |
| 30 | The basic purpose of the ranking is to equalize the workload among tutors and to determine which one of them will make a decision on each applicant . |