Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth .
2 They help to mark out the field within which the theologian has to work and to discover what his own role and contribution should be .
3 Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate .
4 Knowles suggests that a Liverpool speaker first has to choose whether to merge these classes or not , before further deciding whether to apply a number of lower-level optional rules .
5 He has struggled since to meet the £3,500 monthly loan repayments and works 15 hours a day with his team of four in Aston , Birmingham .
6 HARDCOPY VERIFIER Once the user has decided whether to accept or reject hard copy volumes , this interactive program , HCVERIFY.EXE , is run to inform the hard copy system of the decision .
7 Once the Hard Copy manager has decided whether to accept or reject the volume , which must be in the VOLCLOSING state , this interactive program should be run in the process directory .
8 I should like , on their behalf , to thank him for all he has done and to wish him every success in his new appointment as Director General of the Electronic Components Industry Federation .
9 He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment .
10 China has recognised that to rule out direct elections would be bad public relations , but has yet to settle on how to describe its proposed dictatorship .
11 Revisionist analysis of the internal structure and composition of the revolutionary parties has demonstrated that to treat the underground as synonymous with the revolutionary intelligentsia is profoundly misleading .
12 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 .
13 In the meantime the drama has to start and to start simply .
14 Mrs Thatcher has emphasised that to avoid the troubles which have afflicted other African countries , a majority-ruled South Africa must be based on a sound economy .
15 ‘ It is impossible for every child to lead the life that this boy has led and to develop the knowledge which this boy 's way of life has given him .
16 With the ACE ODT developers ' kit for DEC 's R3000-based machines under its belt ( UX No 366 ) , SCO has to decide whether to continue work on HAL , ACE 's hardware abstraction layer , a version of which is required for each port of ODT to an ACE member 's MIPS platform .
17 ‘ But the matter is now with the Crown Prosecution Service , which has to decide whether to proceed . ’
18 Now manager Denis Smith has to decide whether to risk Dziekanowski against West Ham tonight as City chase a first home win .
19 Now the CPS has to decide whether to press further charges or alternative charges after receiving a file from Cleveland Police following the death .
20 The WRU now has to decide whether to take its ultimate sanction and expel the 18 from membership .
21 ‘ If he does n't come , the Disciplinary Committe then has to decide whether to go ahead with the inquiry in his absence , ’ said the Jockey Club 's Sue Williams .
22 Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again .
23 He can do nothing , though , because the stuffing is coming out of the armchair he is sitting in , and before anything else can happen he has to decide whether to get it re-covered or buy a new one .
24 Similarly one has to decide whether to read ‘ misled ’ as ‘ mis-led ’ or as ‘ misl-ed ’ , assuming a verb to ‘ misle ’ …
25 Another aspect of this problem arises when the researcher has to decide whether to become involved in criminal activity .
26 An office manager has to decide whether to change the procedures in his office for handling routine transactions .
27 Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road .
28 When an applicant comes into a priority category or reaches the head of a queue and is offered housing , he or she then has to decide whether to accept the offer if it does not accord with the original preference .
29 With these nine potential partners in addition to teachers , parents and other phases of education , the manager has to decide whether to seek a broad partnership or the separate involvement of individual co-operators .
30 Aragorn has to choose between going to Mordor or to Minas Tirith ; delays , and then finds himself choosing between Sam and Frodo or Merry and pippin ; picks one quest , and then has to decide whether to rest or pursue by night .
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