Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 2 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 3 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
| 4 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 5 | The prime purpose might be to make money or to achieve a measure of self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It may be done to emphasize certain textural characteristics or to prepare a surface for staining ( see Section 4.52 ) . |
| 8 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 9 | These offer the variety and flexibility essential for teachers wanting to supplement an existing programme or to develop a programme of their own . |
| 10 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 11 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 12 | The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem . |
| 13 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 14 | The rich have greater incentive to oppose redistributive policies in that they have much more to lose , and there are arguments that suggest that risk-averse individuals are keener to defend against a loss than to secure a gain ( see Jones and Cullis 1986 ) . |
| 15 | CAP is a prokaryotic sequence-specific protein which is known to bind to DNA as a dimer and to induce a bend in DNA . |
| 16 | Beyond this , the Federation magazines served to publicise forthcoming meetings and courses , to inform branch secretaries of one another 's addresses and to provide a forum for members to exchange ideas : for instance an article by George Tweed of Cambridge branch in the Fenland Bulletin of spring 1956 and another by ‘ Cesnoh ’ in the Hertfordshire Parcel of autumn 1957 both stressed the importance of personal canvassing as a means of recruiting students to courses . |
| 17 | To follow up initial discussions with interested parties and to arrange a number of presentations . |
| 18 | To turn back now from the monastic life , however it had been approached , was to turn back to a world of uncertainty and to face a future in which only damnation was assured . |
| 19 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 20 | It probably takes time to enter the cell and to activate a cascade of intracellular mechanisms leading to secretion of water and electrolytes . |
| 21 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 22 | To investigate system development teams as social units and to provide a re-appraisal of the predominant organisational models used to account for the management of system development teams . |
| 23 | The US 's solution to the problem of its own borders and indigenous peoples had been to expand until stopped by force , to renege on all treaties with native peoples and to conduct a policy of genocide and dispossession which , though it reached a peak in the years 1860–90 , continued well into the 1920s . |
| 24 | Jenny inherited a substantial sum from the estate of an aunt and used the funds to buy a second car and to establish a trust account for their child . |
| 25 | Ataturk was able to control the mullahs and to find a place for them as well as for merchants and intellectuals in the new Turkey . |
| 26 | Arising out of this the Archbishop of Canterbury sought a solution by asking the king to avoid the use of force and to summon a parliament to consider the grievances of the Lancastrian party . |
| 27 | He is believed to have been near the scene of the crime and to have a record of sexual assaults on girls . |
| 28 | Multiple copies also enabled the consignor , the consignee , or the consignor 's assigns to claim a breach of the carrier 's duty of safe carriage and to lodge a claim against the cargo insurers . |
| 29 | However , it seems that the technology is not right at the moment in economic terms to fill the gap and to play a part in the crucial current round of negotiations in which the future of the coal industry in the next three to four years is the most important issue . |
| 30 | The ideal of service allowed the professions to reconcile the concept of the gentleman with the necessity of work for a living and to formulate a definition of their relationship with clients and with society . |