Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other youngsters helped with hyperactive teenagers who were so severely disturbed that to encourage a patient to smile was a major success story . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second purpose is to build upon the work that the investigators and others have previously done and to investigate a number of specific theoretical issues . |
| 8 | He maintains he 's doing ‘ a lot less blood and guts ’ although that 's difficult to believe as he chats of chopping off an arm of a ‘ volunteer ’ from the audience , although theatregoers may escape being sawn in half : ‘ I am not decided whether to saw a young lady from the audience or myself . |
| 9 | A decision will also have to be made whether to use a number of smaller local distributors or a small number of large national distributors . |
| 10 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 11 | In preparations for post-war construction , Resistance figures had planned to ban the continued publication of all newspapers that had collaborated and to create a press that would be economically viable as well as politically free and pluralist : there should be no repetition of the venality of journalists , the concentration of ownership , the submission to the forces of capital , of the inter-war years . |
| 12 | Their advice is that it would be wise to wait until all the rules are formalised and to secure a rock-solid conveyance . |
| 13 | Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground . |
| 14 | It is therefore possible in principle for the application to keep track of the structures it is handed and to assign a score to each one behind the scenes , telling CLE-I that each one is implausible . |
| 15 | As the TGAT Report said : ‘ it should be recognised that to record a low level of performance for this reason [ English as a second language ( E2L ) ] would be no reflection on a pupil 's general ability but merely an indication that the pupil needed special help in English language skills . ’ |
| 16 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |
| 17 | Not all schools of nursing are so well equipped or staffed as to afford a media officer , and responsibility for the care and maintenance of equipment is delegated to teaching staff . |
| 18 | It is now believed that to get a true account of unemployment the current official figures should be multiplied by 1.5 . |
| 19 | But the priest allowed himself to be seated and to have a glass of wine poured for him . |
| 20 | At first , there had been great enthusiasm over the Collector 's decision to suppress the rights of property in the food that was to have been auctioned and to give a share to everybody . |
| 21 | The project therefore attempts to devise a more general descriptive framework for the intonation of the languages investigated and to establish a general theory of intonation structure which takes account of the different role of intonation in languages of different types . |
| 22 | The convention 's preparatory committee had discussed whether to advocate a declaration of support for direct negotiations with PLO members " having no prior record of terrorist activity " , but in the event this was left unresolved . |
| 23 | Murrie suggested Attlee should be encouraged to scrutinize carefully the number of committees being created and to circulate a memorandum discouraging ministers from raising questions unnecessarily . |
| 24 | They subsequently won the right to start moves to have the inquest verdict quashed and to have a judicial review . |
| 25 | Secondly , the system circumscribed professional activity , constrained initiative , and demanded acquiescence in a curriculum that was so narrowly conceived as to represent a parody of education . |
| 26 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 27 | Differences on European defence policy [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ; 38155 ; 38216 ; 38295 ; 38313 ] emerged over Franco-German plans for a European force based in Strasbourg [ see p. 38554 ] , although responses were sufficiently guarded as to suggest a reluctance to revive transatlantic splits in NATO . |
| 28 | Two problems intervened though to prevent a compromise , both in the secret negotiations of 1913 and the Buckingham Palace talks of July 1914 . |
| 29 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 30 | According to Dirk Bauer , Chairman of the new co-operative , ‘ British Organic Milk Producers has been formed to keep organic dairy farmers informed and to form a stronger hand to open new , or widen existing markets ’ . |