Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sponsors , too , may actively seek out educational institutions to see if some working arrangement can be made — the testing of a product or its promotion . |
| 2 | The extent to which the child has been encouraged to be physically independent , to develop spatial awareness , a sense of direction and response to sound and tactile cues and to use any vision he possesses positively will have a considerable influence on the extent to which he is able to meet the demands of his school environment . |
| 3 | Have a look to see whether these things apply to you — it is not a test . |
| 4 | Landlords with money to spare and other entrepreneurs took advantage of such factors as space and improved communications to expand productive facilities to rural areas . |
| 5 | There were 18 pitches to go and six hours of daylight left . |
| 6 | However , it is important to keep a close eye on your skin to see if any moles change in size or shape , in which case you should seek medical advice . |
| 7 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that sufficient resources will be made available to ensure that full establishment is maintained at each of those locations for men and resources , for training and administration ? |
| 8 | However , it is the housewife 's ultimate responsibility to see that all tasks get done properly . |
| 9 | It is the Chief Constable 's responsibility to see that these complaints are properly investigated and result in disciplinary action where appropriate . |
| 10 | However , it has never been thoroughly tested in Britain nor have there been any systematic attempts to see if local taxes and services are important in actual decisions to move . |
| 11 | In terms of the overall needs employers had of young people , it was clear that non-academic criteria , attitudes to work and personal characteristics , and basic skills , essentially those of reading , writing and arithmetic , were far more important to employers than academic qualifications . |
| 12 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 13 | ‘ Pupils ’ attitudes to work and common politeness in a group situation are decidedly unhealthy in this school , ’ said one . |
| 14 | In the past , proposals for major change — such as those emerging from the Lord Chancellor 's Department 's review of the financial conditions for legal aid , and those arising from the Legal Aid Scrutiny — were published in a consultation document so that all concerned had a full opportunity to comment before final decisions were taken . |
| 15 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 16 | One may remark that it is common experience to find that conscientious people who have a job to do that is too much for them ( like writing a book ) turn in their uncertainty to doing a succession of easier jobs instead ( like answering their mail , drawing up syllabuses , or rationalising office organisation ) . |
| 17 | A pilot scheme is using ponies to establish whether traditional methods of management can improve England 's four and a half million acres of low-lying heathland and prevent the encroachment of trees . |
| 18 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 19 | The decision to put the Scottish Office contract out to tender is an example of ‘ market testing ’ — an attempt to see if alternative sources can give better service and value for money than government departments and agencies . |
| 20 | I phoned your office on Friday to confirm that this date is convenient . |
| 21 | But DES Circular 11/87 exhorts schools to acknowledge that some parents have strong religious or cultural objections to the imparting of sex education by schools and to comply with a request to withdraw a child in such circumstances . |
| 22 | He had tried to feel inside his mouth to see if any teeth were broken or missing , but the great bulk of his boxing-glove precluded any such investigation . |
| 23 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 24 | Post guards to see that those instructions are obeyed . ’ |
| 25 | We went to Mozambique and asked Mozambican journalists to write and Mozambican artists and photographers to illustrate what is really happening in their war- and famine-torn country . |
| 26 | Gramlich and Galper ( 1973 ) estimated that in the USA an additional $1 of unconditional aid to state and local governments induced , on average , a $0·43 increase in spending . |
| 27 | In some areas of the country , taking day trips into town or country on public transport is cheaper thanks to free or reduced price travel for pensioners . |
| 28 | Attitudes in excess of 80° in pitch and roll may cause the gyro to topple and some minutes will be required for it to re-erect. bearing friction and other causes , as well as the rotation of the Earth will make the gyro wander . |
| 29 | The elections will be boycotted by Shining Path , who have already stepped up assassinations , caused several candidates to resign and raised fears that , in many parts of Peru , democratic elections will simply be a pipe dream . |
| 30 | These tumours are characterized by the presence of embryonal carcinoma cells , which are poorly differentiated cells similar in morphological and other aspects to epiblast and primordial germ cells . |