Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] the [noun] " 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 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 8 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 9 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 10 | Carson knew better than to use the Mercedes as in-town transport-traffic and parking problems made a car into a liability during the daytime . |
| 11 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 12 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 15 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 16 | For a decade until the late 1930s , people could do no better than to regard the electron as an empirical fact . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Its job will be to consider the responses coming in and to decide the priorities . |
| 22 | He paused to let the effect sink in and to allow the participants to notice that the machine was not showing the correct time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 28 | ( 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 . |
| 29 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 30 | Despite the arguments in favour of the course which the King adopted , his encouragement to MacDonald to hold the government together and to fight the election as a government had quite momentous consequences for the politics of the 1930s . |