Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably that produces omissions , and may lead the interpreter to stop altogether or to ask the speaker to slow down . |
| 2 | If you know you will be with people in the evening too , it would be ideal to have the afternoon away from people altogether or to postpone the evening appointment . |
| 3 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 5 | It was fascinating to watch how people of different temperaments and races worked together or to observe the way key personalities tended to colour the group . |
| 6 | Erm and people would n't know what to do , whether to leave the child at the bottom of the stairs and take the the shopping in or to leave the shopping and have er you know , er think it might go missing or something by the time they take the child and the buggy . |
| 7 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 8 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 9 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 10 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 11 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 12 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 13 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 14 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 15 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 16 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 17 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 18 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 20 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 21 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 22 | The principles as civil proceedings and the topic is now run by it goes on and that mainly deals with criminal material and then one can pick it up at paragraph thirty two er seventeen when er the authors addressed themselves to civil proceedings er and that er following passage deals with effects of the civil evidence act and the relevant procedures and then moving on my Lord to er to in fact , thirty two thirty nine on page eighty hundred and twenty nine the expert has furnished the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of her conclusion so that to enable the judge or jury to perform their own independent judgement by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence . |
| 23 | The owner of Peggotty 's Bakery and Cafe , Mr John Sowerby , arranged for other people who work with food to meet at his cafe so that to make the day cost-effective . |
| 24 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 25 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 26 | I am under pressure from a wide range of general practitioners to bring the list size criterion down and to extend the range of care that can be purchased by GP fund holders . |
| 27 | Eggs were stolen , the nest blew from its tree in a gale , attempts were made by vandals to cut down and to burn the nesting tree at Loch Garten . |
| 28 | The ( Moslem ) Democratic Action Party ( SDA ) , led by Izetbegovic , on March 25 called on all citizens to reject the division of the republic along ethnic lines alone and to accept the concept of a unitary state . |
| 29 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) Where the interest … is not pecuniary , and is neither substantial nor calculated to cause bias in the mind of the judge , it will be disregarded , especially if to disqualify the judge would be productive of grave public inconvenience : Wildridge v. Anderson ( 1897 ) 25 R. ( J. ) 27 , Lord Moncreiff at p.34 . |