Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 2 | Should he be forced not only to retire but to leave behind a multi-party state , the example will be widely noted in Africa . |
| 3 | She paused , suddenly wondering whether to stick to her prepared story , or to change it . |
| 4 | The subject is one of great theoretical complexity , in which even the so-called experts find it easy not merely to disagree but to disagree about what questions to ask . |
| 5 | She crossed one leg over the other , and he 'd forgotten the incident again until he 'd gone to the car to bring in his brief case and check on the records before they went down to eat and to listen to the Donegal sound of Michael and his boys in the Connemara suite . |
| 6 | She did not know whether to believe in him or not . |
| 7 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 8 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 9 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 10 | The courts approach this problem broadly , following the guidance given by Lord Goddard in Gourley 's case [ 1956 ] AC 185 at p209 in his model direction to the jury : " No one can foresee whether tax will go up or down and I advise you not to speculate but to deal with matters as at present . " |
| 11 | Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds . |
| 12 | I 'm just debating whether to run in that kitchen and put that kettle on again , what do you reckon ? |
| 13 | I was still a bit sleepy and I hesitated a moment , not knowing whether to run to the bog or the bedroom . |
| 14 | The AFBD , and probably the LME , will dodge the issue by leaving members separately to decide whether to apply for exemption . |
| 15 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 16 | Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system . |
| 17 | A Dayglobe Leisure spokesman said the company was still considering whether to appeal against the council 's decision . |
| 18 | The converse of barriers to entry are barriers to exit : it may cost firms more to quit than to stay in the market . |
| 19 | While Miles and Gregory have still to decide whether to stay with Wigan for another season , the continuing dominance of a club which only 10 years ago was not considered to have one player good enough to start the series against Australia , is almost total . |
| 20 | Several methods were used both to promote and to check on data quality . |
| 21 | Since the beginning of the year , I have continued both to meet and to correspond with a wide cross-section of the Northern Ireland business community . |
| 22 | Yet many teachers clearly feel that to admit to facing dilemmas is somehow an admission of weakness , and that at all costs a front of professional equanimity and consensus must be maintained in respect of the validity and practical viability of mainstream primary orthodoxies . |
| 23 | We have introduced savings schemes such as TESSAs , and we believe that excess taxation is iniquitous when we seek to encourage people both to save and to invest in our economy . |
| 24 | At the same time , the learner must be encouraged to take every opportunity both to learn and to participate in the teaching of others . |
| 25 | Choukeir will now decide whether to go for the French equivalent of an appeal ; a cancellation in the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | The two councils must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealling through the courts . |
| 27 | I am writing to tell you what those few minutes of destruction will now mean and to ask for your urgent help to stop this needless forest massacre before it is too late . |
| 28 | The difficulty is that the indicators of this integration which are capable of being treated quantitatively ( to enable such a comparison ) are likely to be culturally determined and to vary from one community to another . |
| 29 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 30 | And the other patients did n't know whether to speak to me or not . |