Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is the academics ' interests in the livings that come in the wake of a research career ; or industry 's wish to produce new drugs or insecticides ; or the state 's desire to develop new military armaments or better traffic flows or even to reduce truancy in schools ; these are motivations quite unconnected with the education of students in higher education . |
| 2 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 3 | Allowing then that international law , at least at present , sets out to control force and therefore to preserve peace , those who would deny its status as law can point to its failure in this respect . |
| 4 | Gaveston was the favourite of a Prince of the Blood and even to draw steel in the Prince of Wales ' presence could be construed as treason . |
| 5 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 6 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 7 | The aim is not to increase the community nurses ' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team . |
| 8 | Finally , to what extent is the harmonizing measure to pre-empt national law and thus to exclude conflict of laws issues ? |
| 9 | We have also taken action at home and abroad to improve conservation , and will continue to do so . |
| 10 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 11 | A representative national committee for religious education and welfare was set up to establish youth clubs , organise correspondence classes , distribute literature and generally to keep contact with refugee children in Christian homes , offering Jewish hospitality at times of festival or fast and preparing boys for Bar Mitzvah . |
| 12 | Many hearing-aids have devices to restrict the loudness received by the aid user and also to provide tone selection , but there are still aid users who find that sound volume must be reduced in noisy circumstances . |
| 13 | Bacteria then work on the nitrates converting them firstly to nitrous oxide and then to free nitrogen gas . |
| 14 | We wish to see all pupils having the opportunity to study balanced science as 20 per cent of the curriculum and also to include technology as a core subject . |
| 15 | The Insert mode , the normal mode for most programs , inserts new text at the point of the cursor , shifting the text to the right and below to make room . |
| 16 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 17 | In practice , the registrars are often supplied with a draft of the affidavit in advance not only to ensure that they are happy with its contents but also to ensure compliance with the necessary procedures . |
| 18 | Some co-operative stores were started , with the immediate object of consumer protection but also to accumulate money with which to finance a co-operative community . |
| 19 | All local dust , dirt and rubbish should be cleared away , partly to remove conditions congenial to the beetles but also to facilitate treatment with insecticide . |
| 20 | The desire to get land to cultivate as a farmer and proprietor or simply to get work as a landless labourer drew people to the islands in large numbers . |
| 21 | There is no longer any need to have the authority of the registered proprietor to inspect the register or indeed to obtain office copy entries , and fees are now levied pursuant to the Land Registration Fees ( No 2 ) Order 1990 ( SI1990 No 2029 ) . |
| 22 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 23 | Nowadays , we are well used to this switching back and forth , and cutaways are used not only to hide jump-cuts but also to telescope time by making it possible to remove uninteresting parts of lengthy actions . |
| 24 | A For a start your aquarium water is much too alkaline not only for an Amazon aquarium but also to keep Discus in . |
| 25 | He used these to preach that kings are made , and can only be unmade , by God , to whom solely they are responsible ; that sedition is opposed no less to God than to the king ; that it is a sin not merely to speak evil of the king but even to think evil of him . |
| 26 | The commercial is not designed to win non-drinkers to Guinness but rather to build company awareness and to remind current drinkers — and especially blonde beer drinkers — about Guinness . |
| 27 | After a take-over a common way of making an acquired company more profitable is to reduce the size of the workforce or otherwise to change working conditions to lower costs or increase productivity . |
| 28 | The person insured travelling contrary to medical advice or specifically to obtain treatment . |
| 29 | It is reluctant to accommodate G-proteins and thus to bring information in from the outside . |
| 30 | Art therapy is applied arbitrarily to Disabled people and has often been used less to benefit Disabled people and more to minimise disruption to the ablebodied world . |