Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I was on my knees trying to make up my mind whether to bow my head in the direction of Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Eindhoven or the US . |
| 2 | I am just trying to make up my mind whether to stay overnight with my cousin Katy McKay or walk to Achnacarry . ’ |
| 3 | There is a famous story from the fifties about the discovery by nutritionists that you were better off eating the box than the cornflakes inside it , and I was wondering hopefully whether it might be better to eat my column than to read it , or alternatively whether it might be toxic . |
| 4 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 5 | And they had better uses for their money than to sit here drinking with Colin and his latest tart who had opened her legs to half Norwich , if rumour were to be believed . |
| 6 | And foreign statesmen were far more eager to have him spread Iran 's wealth in their direction than to advise restraint . |
| 7 | The council will take a number of factors into account when making up its mind whether to give a development the go-ahead . |
| 8 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 9 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 10 | She lay stiffly on the bed , unable to make up her mind whether to scream in disappointed rage or to burst into hysterical laughter . |
| 11 | This is quite important because when a child in the third form the kids are making up their mind whether to do science or not . |
| 12 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 13 | Yet , encouraged by Tory Central Office , sections of the Press are keener to criticise Labour for the quality of its opposition than to slam the Government for policy failures . |
| 14 | If these groups persisted in their protest then they were drawn into sham " participation " exercises with the local authority that experience shows did more to neuter their dissent than to advance their real interests . |
| 15 | It is this University 's view that selective payments to a minority are more likely to do damage by their divisiveness than to benefit the University by encouraging those who receive them . |
| 16 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |
| 17 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 18 | ‘ there may be particular agents , such for instance as auctioneers , by whom a pledge would be such a departure from the ordinary course of their business as to put the pledgee upon notice . ’ |
| 19 | Consequently the attitude of students to legal study is predetermined by their exposure to a substantive body of law designed more to develop their memories than to expand their minds . |
| 20 | It followed that the House had to consider afresh the principles upon which the court ought to exercise its discretion whether to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown . |
| 21 | That expression of opinion by the Law Commission can have no relevance to the construction of the Act , whilst any bearing it might otherwise have had on the matters which the court should take into account in exercising its discretion whether to grant leave to apply for a residence order in respect of a child in the care of a local authority has clearly been superseded by the express provisions of the Act . |
| 22 | The deputy chamberlains gained some of their fees from those wishing to consult Domesday Book and other records in their custody ; it was a matter at their discretion whether to index or calendar the records . |
| 23 | In exercising their discretion whether to permit such representation , tribunals should take the following facts into account : the seriousness of the charge or penalty ; whether any points of law are likely to arise ; the capacity of a person to present his own case ; procedural difficulties ; the need for speed in reaching a decision ; and the need for fairness as between the individual and the officers concerned . |
| 24 | This has the unfortunate consequence that they are much more likely to kill their patients than to cure them . |
| 25 | It will also challenge clubs like Nottingham — and perhaps even Cardiff — to become as effective as Saracens have been , not only in finding and developing new young talent , but in building such good relations with the junior clubs in their area as to make this process acceptable to both sides . |
| 26 | ‘ Better to endure her insults than to die of exposure . ’ |
| 27 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | As directors of horror movies know so well , there is no better way to scare their audience than to have some unidentified object flash suddenly on to the screen , very close to the hero 's face . |
| 29 | Shareholders like Joe have until tommorrow to make up their minds whether to sell to TI . |
| 30 | The parents ' right to dispose of their child overrode considerations of the child 's own rights : it was accepted that children should be put in care while the parents made up their minds whether to relinquish them or not . |