Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will help her calculate what quantities of tin openers to order , or to plan a promotion campaign at the beginning of February . |
| 2 | The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem . |
| 3 | Whether the particular objective is to provide school leavers with better general training for the labour market or to stimulate the development of more portable skills , it is hoped that government training initiatives , such as the Youth Training Scheme , will provide a catalyst for change . |
| 4 | We just did n't even bother to whitewash or to paint the ceiling again . |
| 5 | They have doubts about their ability to tell their partners what they want or to sense a woman 's requirements . |
| 6 | It requires a far finer tuning that that of any ordinary human radio to be able to pick up specific molecular electromagnetic emissions , or to sense a pheromone in any other way . |
| 7 | Possible actions are to ignore it ( if previous runs suggest that that light level is about right ) , or to abort the run and recommence from Option 1 . |
| 8 | Nowadays all serious conditions were diagnosed before the child was born and steps taken either to correct them or to abort the foetus . |
| 9 | 20.1 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement . |
| 10 | The differential information limits the ability of legislators or voters to take decisions or to monitor the performance of government agencies . |
| 11 | They were less likely to have a general practitioner with an interest in diabetes ( χ 2 =21.7 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) or to attend a practice with a miniclinic ( χ 2 =42.6 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) . |
| 12 | Irrespective of which method is used , full details of the sub-contractor 's background , including employment history , should be obtained by a requirement either to complete an application form or to attend an interview . |
| 13 | Delete a division mark created accidentally , or to reset the default margins . |
| 14 | Pointing to the lack of decent recreational facilities m the slums , Butterworth also believed that ‘ it is pointless to denounce street evils , gang hooliganism or to mourn the absence of team spirit in poorer areas … |
| 15 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 16 | The Thatcher approach was to employ small teams to tackle specific problems or to issue a set of proposals , and then wait for the howls of |
| 17 | Do you want to make regular contributions to an investment plan , or to invest a lump sum ? |
| 18 | These are rehearsals , and performances given solely or primarily for the purpose of making a recording or to enable the performance to he broadcast or included in a cable programme , unless it was attended by persons other than those participating for such purposes . |
| 19 | As the debt can not be required to be redeemed , its value after the primary period has expired is negligible and , in practice , there will usually be arrangements to transfer it to a party friendly to the issuer or to enable the issuer to elect effectively to redeem the debt for a token amount . |
| 20 | The buyer as well as the seller will often have documents to sign ; for example , if the transfer or other document contains covenants by the buyer ( to observe restrictions or to erect a fence , or on a joint purchase ) the document vesting the property in him , her or them will require execution . |
| 21 | The greater the effort needed to resolve a puzzle or to see a thing ‘ whole ’ , the greater is the experience of tension or pressure . |
| 22 | As the majority of the latter are either Moslem , Sikh or Hindu , it is understandable that the Church has encountered severe problems in trying to communicate her message , either with a view to attracting them into her fellowship or to see the significance of the gospel of Jesus Christ within their own cultural context . |
| 23 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 24 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 25 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 28 | But if the gist of the article is genuinely to demolish the rumour , or to demolish the credibility of its mongers rather than its victim , the article as a whole may not bear a defamatory meaning . |
| 29 | If the incubation period is for less than I h , which should be sufficient to produce some metaphase accumulation , there is probably no need to include serum or to gas the medium . |
| 30 | Their specific duty is to prevent a breach of the peace or to enforce a court order ; for example , access . |