Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 2 | I still hoped to aid Justine — or rather to correct the course of justice , feeling , in some vague and entirely unwarrantable way , that I was more civilized than these Genevese , having a two-century evolutionary lead over them ! |
| 3 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 4 | But the gap in the columns showing the cult image is the convention adopted by the die engraver to convey the essential nature of the temple and the identity of its cult , or perhaps to express the epiphany of the god . |
| 5 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |
| 6 | ‘ Basically what we did was occupy the airport and set up positions more or less to keep the locals , cattle and goats off the runway , ’ said Captain Dave Hall . |
| 7 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 8 | If there is more information than can be displayed on the page at any one time , the lines can be ‘ scrolled ’ up or down to access the hidden information . |
| 9 | IN THE first science debate in the House of Commons for two years , Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , accused the government of ‘ failing properly or sufficiently to fund the science base ’ . |
| 10 | The instep must travel two metres or so to reach the opponent 's head . |
| 11 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 12 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 13 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 14 | So the Nikkei has two years or so to rise the 20–50% needed to bail the issuers out . |
| 15 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 16 | Lord Tenterden C.J. saw the question thus , at p. 893 : ‘ whether the plaintiff intended to discharge the whole debt , or only to relieve the party proposing to pay a proportion of the debt . ’ |
| 17 | There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition . |
| 18 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 19 | One of the most difficult decisions he was faced with in recent years was whether or not to sell the foods business , particularly as it involved disposing of Cadbury 's Cocoa , the product with which his great-grandfather launched the company . |
| 20 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ . |
| 21 | The Attorney General 's spokesman said a decision on whether or not to appeal the sentence would be made ‘ urgently ’ . |
| 22 | A directive is addressed to member states within the EC but it is left to each individual government to decide whether or not to implement the directive . |
| 23 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 24 | The basic tree consists of a network branching out from an initial decision of whether or not to undertake the project . |
| 25 | Councillors from the Forest of Dean came to visit the site at Tidenham Chase , before deciding whether or not to allow the travellers to stay there . |
| 26 | If these can be detected early enough , then women can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy . |
| 27 | The two-part referendum asked voters to choose whether or not to retain the existing electoral system , and to express a preference for one of four alternative systems . |
| 28 | Ultimately , whether or not to take the test must be the decision of the individual . |
| 29 | There are skills of every kind to be learned , from changing a nappy to knowing whether or not to call the doctor , when to teach the facts of life , and how to develop the parent-child relationship during adolescence . |
| 30 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |