Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go or not to go , that is the equation , hey ? ’ |
| 2 | According to the Commission 's National Survey of Countryside Recreation 1990 four out of 10 people in England and Wales are worried about trespassing on private land , getting lost and not knowing where to go or how to behave when visiting the country . |
| 3 | This follows from the principle that individuals are free to contract or not to contract with whomever they please . |
| 4 | Both parties enjoyed freedom to contract or not to contract and both parties exercised that freedom by contracting on the terms set forth in the written agreement and on no other terms . |
| 5 | Often the choice was to weep or else to hit their partner over the head with an axe or say really horrible things to them . |
| 6 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it does seem reasonable to suggest that teachers need to be aware that when tackling many writing tasks pupils will achieve a greater degree of success , both as writers and as learners , if they can work in stages , and if within these stages they have sympathetic and informed support from both teachers and peers — not , I would insist , seeking to impose a preconceived notion of how to plan or how to write , but helping pupils to discover what works best for them . |
| 8 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 9 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 10 | To soap or not to soap ? |
| 11 | ‘ But where the sentence is substantial the offence will be grave , the risk the offender represents to the public can be significant and the difference which decision to grant or not to grant parole makes , may be more than a few months . |
| 12 | In Eudes 's eyes , then , he held Champagne hereditarily ; it was not subject to the king 's decision to grant or not to grant . |
| 13 | Creditors may vote to accept or not to accept either the voluntary liquidation or liquidator . |
| 14 | Then we have a vote as to whether to accept or not to accept Mr 's addendum . |
| 15 | They would be unable at times to concentrate or even to stay awake , It is very noticeable that Barratt required " as far as possible " the attendance of the children at school during the winter " when they are unemployed " . |
| 16 | Perhaps they 've never been taught to write or how to handle criticism of their written work . |
| 17 | However , the freedom to provide or not to provide is regarded as an essential element in that sector , and therefore does not attract the same critical comment . |
| 18 | TO TRAIN OR NOT TO TRAIN |
| 19 | He knew neither what to write nor how to write it . |
| 20 | They know what to write and how to write , and if they do not they will be out the front door before they can pick up their hats and coats . |
| 21 | Thus , since nothing in the Constitution allows the Federal government to create a welfare system , whereby payments ( or payments in kind ) are made to the residents of the various States , a welfare state system could only be established either through Constitutional Amendment ( which would be difficult both to write and then to enact ) or through successful negotiation with the State governments . |
| 22 | Descriptions of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century working class family life as crude and brutal usually attribute the blame to the husband in a manner similar to that of the politicians and policy makers , who so mistrusted his commitment to work and hence to provide . |
| 23 | In other words Braque is in effect saying ‘ My picture is an object , a flat surface , and the spatial sensations it evokes are a painter 's space which is intended to inform and not to deceive . ’ |
| 24 | A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury . |
| 25 | Weather , where to pitch and where to fish are typically topical . |
| 26 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 27 | Where these guarantees are not in place it is always easier and certainly cheaper not to train and not to rely on a production system which requires highly skilled workers . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Just as every normal human child first learns to crawl , then to stand and then to walk and the motivation and capacity to do these things comes from within the child , and is not artificially imposed from outside — so , the moral development theorists hold , there is a necessary sequence of stages of emerging moral judgement . |
| 30 | The only rule is to encourage but not to force . |