Example sentences of "[noun] or [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 2 | Failure to pay can result in our applying to the court for power to deduct arrears from your income or to arrange for the sale of your goods to recover the amount due . |
| 3 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 4 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 5 | Wages fell rapidly and the unions , despite their involvement in many long and protracted disputes were unable to staunch the outward flow of members and funds or to stave off the savage monetary wage cuts which occurred . |
| 6 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 7 | Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law ? |
| 8 | ‘ Until then , they could n't even ask for a glass of water or to go to the toilet . |
| 9 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 10 | In addition she required government approval to leave Singapore or to participate in the activities of any organization . |
| 11 | The Insurer shall be entitled to take over the conduct in the name of an Insured Person in the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of an Insured Person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings and in the settlement of any claim . |
| 12 | No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require . |
| 13 | No admission offer promise payment or indemnity shall be made or given by or on behalf of the Policyholder or any person claiming to be indemnified without the written consent of the Corporation which shall be entitled if it so desires to take over and conduct in the name of the Policyholder or such person the defence or settlement of any claim or to prosecute in the name of the Policyholder or such person for its own benefit any claim for indemnity or damages or otherwise and shall have full discretion in the conduct of any proceedings or in the settlement of any claim and the Policyholder or such person shall give all such information and assistance as the Corporation may require . |
| 14 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 15 | Nowadays there are still tourist boats taking visitors to see Cabo Girâo or Machico or to swim in the sheltered coves , but Madeira now has a fine road network stretching to every small hamlet , whether it be on the top of a mountain or in the bottom of a valley . |
| 16 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 17 | For ordinary people in undernourished Bucharest to regard the trinkets of capitalism as the symbols of liberty as well as the rewards of prosperity is understandable , but to have the wealth of twenty-three million Romanians to squander at one 's will and to choose to watch Kojak or to sit on the sort of lumpish gilt furniture that Western department stores export to their Arab allies would not have suited Caligula . |
| 18 | A brief calculation showed that if the client is entitled to severe disability premium he would be entitled to income support but could not sign a green form to give this initial advice or to act on the other matter . |
| 19 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 20 | Like the Rattries , she supposed , who would never have had the money for a marriage licence or to put in the vicar 's collecting plate . |
| 21 | The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory . |
| 22 | From the beginning the putsch had been poorly conceived : it had failed to mobilize the support of the pieds noirs or to win over the conscript troops , who were the vast majority . |
| 23 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The worker is likely to have to climb over knees and bags several times as the clients wait , in order to get client records from the general office or to refer to the information system . |