Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 2 | The door stayed jammed shut , and he did n't shout back or answer her in any way . |
| 3 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 4 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 5 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 6 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 7 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 8 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 9 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 10 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 11 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
| 12 | Sometimes they can be given a lump of clay that is too heavy for them to lift and they will gain new experiences as they try to mould or divide it into pieces of a manageable size . |
| 13 | Your right to use your ex-husband 's contributions to improve or provide you with a pension depends on your age and/or whether you remarry before the age of 60 . |
| 14 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 15 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 16 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 17 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
| 18 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 19 | It would be impractical to attempt to review or catalogue them in this study and , although we will mention some specific products , we will confine this section mainly to illustrating general authoring issues . |
| 20 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 21 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 22 | People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering ( if male ) and hysterical ( if female ) , and the appropriate treatment was a stiff talking-to , designed to exhort or scare them into ‘ stopping all this nonsense ’ and ‘ pulling themselves together ’ . |
| 23 | Such theories , he remarks , ‘ are not centrally concerned with literature ; indeed , they may marginalize or abandon it as a category ’ , and he instances their source in such fields as philosophy , psychology , sociology , anthropology , linguistics . |
| 24 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 25 | The general law of confidential information would impose a duty to the donors of information not to use or disclose it beyond the purposes for which it is given without consent of the donors . |
| 26 | ‘ I never intended to belittle or humiliate her in public . |
| 27 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 28 | She wept easily and often anyway : frequently dissolving in front of Alice , who would then coax or bully her into all sorts of concessions . |
| 29 | 5 Corps was still under orders not to provoke or resist them by force , for the reasons Macmillan had explained on his visit on 13 May , and on the evening of 14 May Gen McCreery confirmed this in a message to Gen Keightley [ KP 106 ] : agreement confirmed that Maj Dubajic would remain at Kappel with Lt Lochhead of 6 SF ( SOE ) to make arrangements for the hand-over of further 10,000 Croats by 23 May making a total of 13,000 Croats to be repatriated . |
| 30 | Hindus revere nature but never feel any need to marshal or mould it into a design of their own : a banyan tree will almost be encouraged to spread its drooping creepers into the middle of any village market , or to block any backwoods track . |