Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 2 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 3 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 4 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | The wrongful act of the son in intercepting those letters , which could not have been anticipated by the creditor , was held not to affect the creditor so as to prevent it from enforcing the charge . |
| 6 | Would it not be preferable to broaden the defence of diminished responsibility so as to convert it into a defence of extreme emotional disturbance , applicable to both sexes ? |
| 7 | It is important to write these plans down and to keep them under review . |
| 8 | The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control . |
| 9 | Since pretreatment with TPA did not completely destroy histamine stimulated adenylate cyclase activity , it seems possible that the effect of phosphorylation by protein kinase C is to reduce the efficiency of coupling between the receptor and Gs rather than to abolish it completely . |
| 10 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 11 | I have suggested that it is the function of grammar to reduce the range of meaning signalled by words so as to make them more effective in the identification of features of context , thereby providing for the increased indexical potential of lexis . |
| 12 | I was guarding a moving shadow ; trying to prevent something that might not happen , searching for the intention so as to stop it occurring . |
| 13 | During a series of meetings with US President Bush , the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the US Secretary of State James Baker , Moiseyev was informed that the USA would refuse to accept the reclassification of three Soviet motorized divisions as naval coastal units so as to exempt them from the terms of the treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 14 | The two leaves are , however , linked across the cavity with metal wall ties so as to stabilise them , and particularly the narrower outer leaf ; the ties are firmly bedded in the mortar of both leaves . |
| 15 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |
| 16 | As it is , he 's put off his fishing so as to entertain you — ’ |
| 17 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 18 | His duties were defined as being : ‘ to attend to the opening and closing , lighting and heating , dusting , washing out and general care of the premises ; the trimming of the ivy so as to keep it clear of the spouting and the roof ; the keeping of the borders tidy ; and the cleanliness of the WCs . |
| 19 | Sir : In her article ( 'The child as a piece of disposable property' , 2 October ) , Sue Wells argues for a change in adoption law so as to bring it nearer an open adoption system , whereby adopted children remain in contact with birth parents . |
| 20 | However , 11 stated that it was poorly written , and all but one of those 11 rewrote the passage so as to make it conform to Hankamer & Sag 's parallelism condition — some changed the antecedent from are critical of to criticize , others changed the form of the ellipses ( e.g. … anyone who is … ) or eliminated it ( e.g. … anyone who was openly critical … ) . |
| 21 | This refers to the shock treatment applied by Western-dominated financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to the economies of developing countries so as to make them more efficient . |
| 22 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 23 | that some concessions regarding ( a ) should be afforded to small companies so as to relieve them of burdens and expense that they might find intolerable . |
| 24 | Secondly , the nature of the controls imposed on management so as to assure us that their power can not be used arbitrarily will be analysed and criticized . |
| 25 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 26 | Led by Lord Pugh , the Fists would punch their way through into the city , the treacherous city which would reconfigure itself like a machine so as to funnel them unwittingly . |
| 27 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 28 | We need to ensure people receive proper help and counselling , both to deal with abuse now and to prevent it in the future , ’ said Chris Cullen , who holds the SSMH chair in learning difficulties at St Andrews University . |
| 29 | In short , the social debate on evacuation probably served to reinforce existing analyses of working-class poverty rather than to change them : for conservative social observers , it confirmed their view that the bulk of the problems were caused by an incorrigible underclass of personally inadequate ‘ cultural orphans ’ for whom a Welfare State could do little . |
| 30 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |