Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 2 | You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered . |
| 3 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 4 | The safest course , in view of the Revenue 's Statement , must be either to complete the transfer ( if by agreement ) before the marriage is dissolved or to have the transfer made the subject of a court order and so usually fall within the provisions of s10(1) . |
| 5 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 6 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 7 | He may even have considered that to establish the superiority of the Copernican over the Tychonic system would be to reaffirm the superiority of Catholic over Protestant science . |
| 8 | The specification produced earlier should be included and to assist the supplier in providing information it is reasonable to supply information on the following : |
| 9 | Then , while he was in an uncertain mood about the idea of leaving the warren , Captain Holly had appeared in capital time to be attacked and to provide a perfect reason for their departure . |
| 10 | Oestrogen is thought to reduce the rate at which bone is dissolved and to increase the rebuilding process . |
| 11 | Influencing both civil and criminal procedure before and at trial , the English adversarial approach permits the parties to dictate the issues to be resolved and to settle the pace of the action . |
| 12 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 13 | Four bishops representing the Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches yesterday met the university 's Vice-Chancellor , Walter Kamba , to urge that the campus be reopened and to learn the fate of the estimated 40 students arrested following the protests . |
| 14 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 15 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 16 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 17 | However , Trotsky also recognized that to effect the massive social change needed in the Soviet Union a professional , trained and expert apparatus was needed . |
| 18 | Where possible , material which could be salvaged from old buildings or walls was recycled into the new fortifications , while in many places no indemnity was paid to those who were forced ‘ pro bono publico ’ to surrender property on which walls might be built or to provide the open ground , outside a wall , vital for effective defence . |
| 19 | Other youngsters helped with hyperactive teenagers who were so severely disturbed that to encourage a patient to smile was a major success story . |
| 20 | There is no greater achievement in geographical Research remaining to be done than to lift the veil from before this unpenetrable and mysterious Continent . |
| 21 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
| 22 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 23 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 24 | I have argued that to present an analysis in this way is inappropriate . |
| 25 | It could hardly be argued that to place the power of veto in the hands of an individual or a minority is a democratic device , except perhaps in certain very unusual and specific circumstances . |
| 26 | Both the interim President Joseph Nerette and the acting Prime Minister Jean Jacques Honorat had earlier argued that to approve the agreement would be unconstitutional , a view endorsed by the Supreme Court on March 27 . |
| 27 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 28 | Applying Kirchhoff 's voltage and current laws respectively to the input and output circuits of figure 10.6(b) yields However , and so from equation ( 10.18 ) the small-signal current gain between input and output is while the input resistance presented to small signals is from equation ( 10.17 ) Making use of equation ( 10.19 ) , the latter becomes Proceeding further , the small-signal voltage gain between input and output is and , on substituting for and from equations ( 10.19 ) and ( 10.20 ) , it is seen that To obtain an expression for the output resistance , observe that in the input circuit Eliminating through equation ( 10.18 ) gives and rearranging this equation in the form establishes that the output resistance is |
| 29 | ‘ The shelling was getting closer , so a decision was made that to protect the civilians and to protect the soldiers ’ own lives , ’ he said . |
| 30 | In any situation where heavy demands are placed on personnel owing to excessive work load , there is a tendency to deal with those jobs where most external pressure is being applied and to neglect the ones showing least demand . |