Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 2 | They are indeed considerable achievements , but what they show most clearly is how hard it will be to get the major Third World countries to agree on any protocol which could slow down or affect industrial growth . |
| 3 | First , it should mean — but it does not — that decisions which do not bear on or affect other Member States should remain with the nation state or below . |
| 4 | 7.3 Termination under this Clause shall be without prejudice to the fulfilment of purchase orders wholly or partially outstanding at the date of such termination , and likewise shall not prejudice or affect any right of action or remedy which shall have accrued or shall accrue thereafter under this Agreement to either party . |
| 5 | Faced with the challenge of being original in this way , some student writers believe that they should copy or adapt other people 's work because it is bound to be of better quality than their own . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) 5.85 gives the police power of entry into licensed premises , and makes it an offence to refuse or obstruct such entry . |
| 7 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 8 | By removing the present focus of much community activity and co-operation , school closure will reduce or eliminate such activities in the future and thus destroy the community itself . |
| 9 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 10 | The teacher with less severely visually impaired pupils already in the class who faces the prospect of receiving pupils with more severe visual disabilities will want to consider practical and immediate strategies to mitigate problems of social acceptance and to reduce or eliminate cruel teasing or isolation of the pupils who have defective vision . |
| 11 | The Occupational Pensions Board has issued guidance on the information required from occupational pension schemes where they seek to reduce or eliminate statutory surpluses . |
| 12 | It will be the concern of the court of the state to which the child is to be returned to minimise or eliminate this harm and , in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary or evidence that it is beyond the powers of those courts in the circumstances of the case , the courts of this country should assume that this will be done . |
| 13 | Transferring to an alternative medium requires new data formats yet to be standardised and dependence on a new generation of hardware to read or download stored information . |
| 14 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 15 | A similar view appears to be taken by Lord Fraser of Tullybelton in the Rank case [ 1982 ] A.C. 380 , 446D ’ — where he said : ‘ A restriction by the court making the order would , no doubt , be effective to bind the party who obtained the order … ’ — ‘ ( d ) Since the decision of the House of Lords in Attorney-General v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 191 it is to be taken as settled law that it is a contempt of court , as constituting an interference with the course of justice , for anyone , whether a party to the action or not , knowingly to thwart or subvert that purpose of an order of the court . |
| 16 | Second , the contingent environmental events which may strengthen or weaken verbal responses are specified and an attempt should be made to identify those contingencies which will operate to maintain the target behaviours in the natural environment once they have been established through systematic teaching . |
| 17 | Parliament has thus recognised the unsatisfactory results of the common law privilege against self-incrimination and has been willing to abrogate or modify that privilege . |
| 18 | We should develop or modify existing structures as well as work out new ones . |
| 19 | Storm/Dba allows management information system ( MIS ) department staff to create or modify all parts of the database schema from a graphical environment . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland might attempt to terminate or modify this agreement ; or the government of either or both States might attempt to introduce legislation without seeking the views of the population , or against their expressed will . |
| 21 | In either event , the power to exclude or modify pre-emptive rights ceases with the expiration or revocation of the authority conferred under section 80 , ( or 80A ) though it can be renewed by special resolution when , and to the extent that , the authority is renewed . |
| 22 | Although firms may use a variety of contractual and structural techniques to try to deal with these problems , the uncertainty surrounding the extent to which it is possible to exclude or modify fiduciary obligations by contract or disclosure and consent , and as to the extent to which the use of Chinese walls provides protection as a matter of private law against allegations of breach of fiduciary duty , means that these techniques can not be relied upon exclusively . |
| 23 | However , this can never be a free and equal contract , because the individual worker must have work at any price simply in order to survive , while the capitalist ( though needing workers ) can employ or sack any individual he chooses . |
| 24 | The need to maintain or enhance public enjoyment of lochs , rivers and reservoirs . |
| 25 | These , respectively a need to hurt or to be hurt in order to obtain or enhance sexual satisfaction , are yet again aspects of normal sexuality within reasonable limits . |
| 26 | New drugs and agrochemicals are often developed by direct modification of an existing compound to mimic or enhance some aspects of its biological behaviour . |
| 27 | They are followed by people acting neutrally in a principled way , i.e. , because they believe that there is a reason not to help or hinder one side more than the other . |
| 28 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been tampering with any Witness , in respect of his evidence to be given to this House , or any Committee thereof , or directly or indirectly hath endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from appearing or giving evidence the same is declared to be a high crime and misdemeanour ; and this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender . |
| 29 | Under this modern view , contractual obligations may only be justified in order to deter or compensate some harm to the interests of another person . |
| 30 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |