Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that he 's wanted to know whether to destroy the negatives and things does he , yes ? |
| 2 | On the whole the royal courts of Europe were more concerned to administer than to define the law : as in canon law , there was no clear distinction between legislative and judicial functions , and so the former was normally hidden in the latter . |
| 3 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 4 | If an expatriate , rather than a local employee is really needed , the organisation has to consider whether to relocate an existing employee or recruit specifically to fill the post . |
| 5 | He confirmed that the staff committee would now meet on Thursday night to consider whether to discipline the workers who made the allegations . |
| 6 | The letter added that while it was a matter for the City Council to determine whether to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the event , ‘ there are no funds at the disposal of this Department to meet the costs involved ’ . |
| 7 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 8 | The minority parties , including the Liberal Democrats , would have to decide whether to support a Queen 's Speech based on consensus politics ‘ or whether to throw us back into the melting pot of a general election ’ . |
| 9 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 10 | Sir Nicholas has 28 days to decide whether to refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal . |
| 11 | In an unexpected move on Oct. 12 President Hastings Kamuzu Banda announced a referendum which would allow Malawians to decide whether to abandon the one-party political system in favour of a multiparty system . |
| 12 | THE Attorney-General has just six days left to decide whether to ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the sentence of Harley Street rapist Dr Tom Courtney . |
| 13 | He looked like a particularly lethargic Newfoundland dog , trying to decide whether to obey an order . |
| 14 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 15 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |
| 16 | Today committee members were meeting to decide whether to close the school down . |
| 17 | COUNCILLORS meet this morning to decide whether to allow the partial demolition and redevelopment of a 19th Century convent . |
| 18 | In his valuable and revealing Diaries of a Cabinet Minister R. H. S. Crossman gives an account of how the Labour Cabinet of which he was a member had to decide whether to allow an oil company to build a refinery on Canvey Island in Essex . |
| 19 | It is in fact an argument about Godwin 's ideas , and it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Godwin or to the more conservative philosophy which Wordsworth was now beginning to embrace . |
| 20 | Indeed , the plan has coincided with the takeover of Datarange by SFA Inc which — conveniently for LanOptics — invalidates the current contract , enabling LanOptics to decide whether to continue the relationship . |
| 21 | The justice will then either form one of the opinions set out in subsection ( 5 ) , and if he does so , go on to decide whether to remand the defendant in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , or if the justice feels unable to form one of the opinions set out in the subsection , he will order the defendant to be released on bail on the same terms as were originally imposed . |
| 22 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 23 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 24 | LIN now has 45 days to decide whether to buy the balance of the franchise . |
| 25 | it can be very difficult to decide whether to have a child . |
| 26 | Mr. Scrivener points out that , in the days of capital punishment , it was the practice for the Home Secretary personally to decide whether to recommend a reprieve ; and political memoirs record how seriously that responsibility was regarded . |
| 27 | The UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed concern at the constitutional implications of the judgment but pointed out that it was left to UK courts to decide whether to exercise the powers . |
| 28 | more time for patients to decide whether to make a complaint ( up to 13 weeks after the event ) ; |
| 29 | The Executive will have to decide whether to add the money raised by the appeal to the £5,000 or retain it as a part-contribution towards the pledge we made . |
| 30 | In order to decide whether to grant an injunction , the House of Lords had to decide whether damages were available for breach of Article 86 and whether that would , in the event of an injunction not being granted , be a satisfactory remedy . |