Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 2 | According to Foujita , the dealer 's ‘ method ’ was ‘ to sit reading a paper on the esplanade or to go into hotels , presumably with a rendezvous with a duke or some important person , but nothing came of all this ’ . |
| 3 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 4 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 5 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | It would not be lawful for a grant maintained school to reject children with special needs who were otherwise eligible for admission but it is impossible to legislate against the temptation to work towards greater academic activity or to concentrate on subjects which are regarded as prestigious by the potential client group . |
| 7 | In milder manifestations , counselling in its true sense may help the individual concerned either to overcome or to come to terms with the tendency . |
| 8 | The Sylvie he had failed to help or to come to terms with . |
| 9 | It is easy to see how such behaviour could originate out of necessity ( if B is bilingual , but A monolingual in L ) and be extended even to cases where both speakers are bilingual , out of a need to show solidarity or to conform to norms of politeness within the community . |
| 10 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 11 | Aristotle only produces spurious suggestions about a woman 's incapacity to think or to stick to principles when he is obliged to say something about why their judgements lack authority . |
| 12 | Before we look at sociological explanations it might be useful to ask yourself , or to discuss with colleagues , whether you feel that criminals are different ‘ types ’ of person . |
| 13 | The draft resolution would give the council authority to compel countries to cooperate with the court for instance , to extradite or hold suspects or to help in investigations . |
| 14 | I 'd now like to talk about places where stamps can be bought , whether for your own collection or to give as gifts . |
| 15 | ‘ Aids ’ are available to help people pull themselves out of bed , or to put on stockings . |
| 16 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 17 | And somehow Meredith knew that he would n't be as easy to brush off , or to coax , or to divert with jokes as the other young men she 'd fended off . |
| 18 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 19 | In view of the importance of the stipulation to pay 75 per cent of the price , and the failure of the defenders to pay or to respond to demands for payment , the pursuers were entitled to infer that the defenders did not intend to fulfil their obligations and pursuers were entitled to rescind . |
| 20 | To learn about or to teach about cities without considering both the biophysical environment and the social environment is downright unscholarly . |
| 21 | The chair should encourage people to put forward their own views or to argue against views that others have actually expressed , rather than against hypothetical stereotypes ( e.g. ‘ these feminists say … ‘ ) . |
| 22 | The award is worth up to £400 and can be used for a project , to fund attendance at meetings or conferences relevant to a current research report or to assist with costs of disseminating research through meetings , conferences or publications . |
| 23 | The reason for this is traditional : Roman friends were often called on to look after property or to care for members of a family . |
| 24 | Others used their empty houses to run a corner shop or to take in lodgers , sometimes both together . |
| 25 | With the separation of political power from the family , women were less able to influence the process of political recruitment or to act as substitutes for their men . |
| 26 | Most were intended to be exulting or to act as aids to the recognition of individual figures . |
| 27 | Identify broad social strategies to prevent or mitigate undesirable impacts of global change or to adapt to changes which are unavoidable ; |
| 28 | The following are several interesting demonstrations and experiments to try out on your own gliders , or to show to students . |
| 29 | The NCC has the power either to acquire land or to enter into agreements with its owners which may involve some financial assistance from the Council . |
| 30 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |