Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 2 | The court may give directions or vary or revoke an existing direction at any stage in the proceedings provided that the parties are given notice and an opportunity to attend and be heard or to make written representations . |
| 3 | It will pay them to settle in advance how such matters are to be resolved and to make appropriate provision in the partnership agreement . |
| 4 | In order to study effectively you need to be organised and to put sufficient time aside to learn and to reflect . |
| 5 | However , it might be said that to require additional disclosure from all companies as a means of addressing the lack of it from a few is to force rules on the majority for the sake of the minority . |
| 6 | A call management system has been installed to monitor all calls to enable the team to assess the impact of changes made and to produce hard data for use in any justification or recommendations . |
| 7 | frequent contact must be maintained between the boss and subordinate to review the progress made and to discuss constructive criticism . |
| 8 | The Home Secretary stressed last night that the Government had not yet decided whether to bring forward legislation , but he said he did not believe the Hetherington report could just be interred . |
| 9 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 10 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 11 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 12 | If it is agreed that to regulate corporate crime the level of intervention should be organizational ( although individual offenders should be prosecuted in tandem ) and different judicial principles to increase the state 's chances of securing conviction should be instituted , then what ? |
| 13 | ‘ Sackholders ’ which look like dustbins but lack proper handles which can be grasped are INADEQUATE for loose refuse and MUST NOT be used except to hold tied plastic sacks . |
| 14 | You are requested to switch off lights when these are not needed and to exercise proper economy in the use of telephones and other company equipment . |
| 15 | During this period there will be pressures to woo and be wooed and to gain sexual experience . |
| 16 | Key messages include the need to plan audits adequately , to record audit work performed and to maintain adequate quality assurance procedures . |
| 17 | The court ordered them to carry out surveys of how the birds would be affected and to prepare alternative routes for the pipeline . |
| 18 | Russia 's envy is understandable when , under communist government , the state 's doctors were so slightly rewarded as to make illegal private practice inevitable . |
| 19 | Many companies have already found that to maintain commercial confidentiality they have had to register for VAT and appoint agents in other member states just to comply with the new reporting regime . |
| 20 | Better to be fired than to look bad . |
| 21 | We had from the outset a desire to cross barriers that had previously existed and to get involved in community groups . |
| 22 | Responding on Sept. 28 , Houphouët-Boigny promised ( i ) a national commission to consider the opinions expressed and to recommend appropriate measures ; ( ii ) consideration by the PDCI conference due in autumn 1990 of constitutional reforms ; and ( iii ) a reshuffle of senior Cabinet posts [ see below ] . |
| 23 | Unless you were oil-related it was quite difficult to get equipment serviced and to obtain certain stores . |
| 24 | The Sunday Life photographic session brought a welcome opportunity to be pampered and to try different images . |
| 25 | These ‘ second-pass ’ eye movements relate to attempts to organise the meaning of what is read and to correct faulty syntactic decisions . |
| 26 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |