Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 2 | Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work . |
| 3 | Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B. |
| 4 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday . |
| 5 | The 348 to 123 vote , a majority of 225 , is likely to provide irresistible pressure on the Cabinet when it decides within the next few weeks whether to press ahead with the necessary legislative changes . |
| 6 | The Government will decide over the next few weeks whether to penalize Gloucestershire for overspending . |
| 7 | If they call you names or they spit at you , or or whatever , it 's better to walk away and live another day than to get your head kicked in and end up in hospital . |
| 8 | The commission is expected to decide this month whether to open an investigation . |
| 9 | Councillors will decide this week whether to carry on running the service this summer . |
| 10 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 11 | This is a very large issue mostly beyond the scope of this book except to note that ergonomics is an exemplar of a style of thinking which is based on characteristics of people . |
| 12 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 13 | England 's selectors must decide this weekend whether to give the 21-year-old his big chance in the second Ashes Test against Australia . |
| 14 | ITN sources say that the Prime Minister will consider this weekend whether to hold the General Election on April the ninth . |
| 15 | Alec Evans , 53 , assistant coach on the 1984 Wallaby Grand Slam tour of Britain and Ireland , will decide this weekend whether to accept a £30,000 offer to join Cardiff as director of coaching . |
| 16 | It is certainly more fun to shoot video this way than to take unrelated pot-shots , and it is infinitely more interesting to watch . |
| 17 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 18 | I had persuaded myself that there was no such long-continued action on this dictum as to render it improper in this House to reconsider the question . |
| 19 | And what , thought reformers , could be more effective in pursuit of this goal than to inculcate in young workers the values of citizenship — a popular doctrine which drew support from all political perspectives ? |
| 20 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 21 | The excitement beckons — and I 'll go no further at this stage than to wonder whether the Championship record of exactly 100 years ago might be repeated in 1992 , when England beat Ireland , Wales and Scotland ( just ! ) , |
| 22 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 23 | One deals with ‘ lack of care ’ in that a failure to fence a pond resulted in a verdict of such negligence as to justify a verdict of manslaughter . |
| 24 | The stream was in full spate , rushing over its stony bed with such force as to make the way across the stepping-stones hazardous for George and Bob . |
| 25 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ( ‘ the deceased ’ ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; ( b ) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown ; or ( c ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act , then … the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or , subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , without a jury . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the coroner to dispense with an inquest in any case where there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; or ( b ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act . |
| 28 | Clause 1(2) ( b ) defines a mutiny as where two or more prisoners ’ collectively resist , impede or disobey any exercise of lawful authority in the prison in such circumstances as to make their conduct subversive of order in the prison . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Where an unpaid seller has made part delivery of the goods , he may exercise his lien or right of retention on the remainder , unless such part delivery has been made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to waive the lien or right of retention . ’ |
| 30 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |