Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , recent spacecraft voyages have dissuaded astronomers from being too ready to categorize objects as satellites , asteroids , comets or even failed suns ; or to neatly itemize inter-planetary debris , with planets being bigger than moons , asteroids bigger than meteors , and so on . |
| 2 | Sometimes in the process they decide to let go of old destructive relationships or to completely change their career . |
| 3 | There are two possibilities : either to exploit the existing key order — if that is possible — or to completely destroy that order , and to allocate keys to addresses as randomly as possible . |
| 4 | The choice is to extensively renovate or to completely replace them with ‘ intelligent buildings ’ . |
| 5 | In practice it proved logistically impossible to observe the strict letter of the law or to completely suppress these cultures . |
| 6 | And the local tavernas are the best places to sample the delicious Greek cuisine or to simply sit back with a glass of ouzo and watch the world go by . |
| 7 | As a consequence , there is either a tendency to overcompensate and carry out too much fact-finding in a rather loose fashion , or to simply focus on specific information processes with a view to introducing new technology . |
| 8 | This gives you so much more flexibility to have people to stay , to rent out a room if you become hard up or to simply have a room to move into while you decorate your main bedroom . |
| 9 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 10 | And time to either discuss their illness with people who understand how they feel , and the way that people react , or to just relax and forget all about the fact they 're living with it . |
| 11 | It is an excellent example of the pointlessness of so much intelligence work , often conceived in the looking-glass world of make-believe where no one seems to be in touch with the real world outside , or to even consider the consequences of their ludicrous ideas . |
| 12 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 13 | The overall aim is to show in detail how schools can mediate between past and future without attempting to copy the former or to naively predict the latter . |
| 14 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 15 | Subjects were asked to continue describing different junctions until no more stood out in their memory but not to attempt to recall all the junctions , nor to deliberately recall them in the order they had been driven through . |
| 16 | This statement is based on the fact that the mutated oligonucleotides were neither able to produce specific retarded complexes nor to specifically compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences ( see Fig. 4 ) . |
| 17 | People should visit Docklands to find out what is going on inside , and to also check out what Docklands has to offer . |
| 18 | The intentions of the vigils were to give thanks to God for the precious gift of human life , and to also pray for an end to the abuses of this gift , by abortion , destructive embryo experimentation , and euthanasia . |
| 19 | Er yes , erm I told him to calm down because he was quite excitable and to just stay there and somebody would explain what it was all about . |
| 20 | I went and to just walk around the town . |
| 21 | I wanted to talk to you about the things that er you 've got from the meetings and to just think about the pricing issues . |
| 22 | But it 's all all this is okay , but it sort of makes your brain ache after a bit and to just see something real that relates to it it 's makes it stick in your |
| 23 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 24 | In other words , people have settled into an environment where they live , and to even attempt to get to talk and get themselves out . |
| 25 | More common is Milton 's use of the word , describing the serpent in Paradise Lost as ‘ the fittest imp of fraud ’ , for imps are thought to sprout from Satan and to frequently adopt various animal forms in order to serve their evil master . |
| 26 | The aim of the investigation was to investigate how land-use changes with distance from the centre of a city and to thus determine which model of urban structure best fits Nottingham . |
| 27 | For example , Snider examined the enforcement of the Canadian Combine Investigation Act , 1889 , which makes it ‘ illegal to conspire or arrange with another person to limit unduly the facilities to manufacture any article , or to prevent or lessen unduly competition in the manufacture or production of any article and to thereby increase the price ’ ( 1978 : 147 ) . |
| 28 | They certainly did n't choose to drop out of society like their New York City equivalents who could always return to daddy 's money ; rather , theirs is a quest to reflect the plight of the dispossessed and let them know they 're not alone , to offer the disaffected hope , and to somehow go beyond merely preaching to those who already understand . |
| 29 | It can be difficult but necessary at times to carry out this study and to slowly change our own techniques to keep in date with modern developments . |
| 30 | About 6 years ago we therefore set out to raise the image of Washroom with the hope of protecting our customer base in difficult times and to generally increase sales . |