Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 2 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 3 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 4 | He had to choose whether to grasp power at every opportunity or to love others and to trust in God . |
| 5 | In his valuable and revealing Diaries of a Cabinet Minister R. H. S. Crossman gives an account of how the Labour Cabinet of which he was a member had to decide whether to allow an oil company to build a refinery on Canvey Island in Essex . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal had to decide whether to authorize surgery on a week-old child born with Down 's syndrome and duodenal atresia . |
| 7 | To oblige them to belong to a national group was as likely to imprison them in an identity from which they wanted to escape as to liberate them . |