Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the duty is framed in subjective terms , as we have seen , the practical effect is not to impose a duty but to confer a discretion and hence a management which is not disposed to sacrifice profits ( or otherwise depart from its chosen course ) in order to advance other interests will not be compelled to alter its behaviour . |
| 2 | There is also an increasing trend towards agroforestry which involves a combination of tree and agricultural crops ; the silvicultural component may be used to provide a crop and to ensure environmental protection . |
| 3 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 4 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 5 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 6 | Exploratory will give visitors the opportunity to discover why mirrors invert sideways but not up and down , to measure their heart rates while pedalling a bicycle and to re-enact Galileo 's experiments with falling weights on inclined planes . |
| 7 | The decision to purchase a microcomputer or to give advice on the purchase means that the school librarian and teachers will have to gather information in relation to the questions posed above on criteria for selection . |
| 8 | For example , they pretend to feed a doll or to drink from an ( empty ) cup . |
| 9 | It is used by the Conclave of Cardinals to choose a Pope , by the Democratic and Republican Conventions in the United States to choose a presidential candidate , and by the Labour Party both to choose a Leader and to elect local officers . |
| 10 | Le Corbusier talked of the " man-of-today … following in his leisure the organic development of his existence , which is to create a family and to live , like every animal on this earth and like men of all ages , an organized family life " ( 1927p 268 ) . |
| 11 | That relationship can be affected if the scale or seriousness of a student 's compulsory assignments ( knowledge of the literature , a capacity for critique and argument , ability to design a project and to collect and analyse data ) is in any way diminished . |
| 12 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |
| 13 | The more people a man could interest in his quarrel , the more serious it was , the greater the pressure on the other side to reach a settlement and to make peace . |
| 14 | But it seems that the key to an illness-free holiday is to turn your back on seeking a suntan and to head for cooler countries , according to a recent survey by the Consumers Association . |
| 15 | Record the salient terms of the sale ( eg the purchase price , whether the property is freehold or leasehold , desired date of completion , etc ; in the case of a buyer , that the purchase is subject to selling the buyer 's own house or seeking a mortgage and to keep you informed as to his or her success ) . |
| 16 | So , for example , it would be better to stick your head out of the window and take in six large gulps of air instead of smoking a cigarette than to cut out smoking and put nothing in its place . |
| 17 | But demonstration is rarely enough both to sell a product and to establish a brand . |
| 18 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 19 | It can tell its readers that Antiochus IV , in mortal danger , promised to " become a Jew and to visit every inhabited place in order to proclaim the power of God " ( 9.17 ) . |
| 20 | One person may become a Christian because to believe in Jesus is ‘ where it 's at ’ . |
| 21 | [ In discussions , at ] no stage did the appellant attempt to assert a title or to exclude the representatives of the respondent from the premises … |
| 22 | The lack of clarity may be so total that it is comparatively meaningless to seek to identify a policy or to study its implementation . |
| 23 | The ability to hear a word and to recognise the separate sounds that make it up . |
| 24 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 25 | For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’ |
| 26 | Political activity here would undermine the credibility of a claimant only if it was designed merely to enhance a claim or to construct one that did not exist . |
| 27 | There was much that was more likely to inspire a smile than to send us rushing from the gallery complaining about the injustices of patriarchy , which is probably the best way to subvert the system . |
| 28 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 29 | I 'm not running another 20 , not even to win a bet or to please a dying grandmother ! |
| 30 | Each child was given a present and to go with it a box of sweets . |