Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 2 | Alternatively , where such territories were too small and scattered , as in many colonised archipelagos , they were combined or broken up according to convenience or local politics . |
| 3 | may be delayed when dementia sufferer lives alone , or is not well known in the community ( eg crowded city areas ; living in multi-storey blocks , or has recently moved to a new area ) . |
| 4 | As soon as practicable after the pre-trial review , if the action or matter still remains to be heard , the court fixes a date for hearing and gives notice to all parties ( Ord 17 , r 9 ) . |
| 5 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 6 | In fact , the little chap positively trailblazes along walls — when he 's not bounding on his robo-legs or zooming skywards strapped to a jetpack . |
| 7 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 8 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 9 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 10 | The best example is a conclusion that direct facts do or do not amount to contributory negligence , which will always be an inference drawn in the light of the facts found . |
| 11 | Some folk use machine knitting because they can not , or do not wish to , hand knit . |
| 12 | The faster fitness style and stamina section featured will appeal to many younger people , and videos of this type are very popular with those who can not , or do not wish to , go to a regular class . |
| 13 | If good faith requires only that the holder have no actual notice that the goods have not been shipped or do not correspond to the bill of lading description , the holder does not have to prove that it give value or consideration , as it must under the Pomerene Act . |
| 14 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |
| 15 | Or do n't want to . ’ |
| 16 | If you ca n't — or do n't want to — breastfeed , why does it seem that the whole world is out to make you feel guilty ? |
| 17 | On a local level it 's quite hard to distinguish ratings , but there is a certain folklore and sometimes it 's an information that comes out as to whether people to listen to things or do n't listen to things . |
| 18 | Training logs are one of those things you simply do or do n't take to . |
| 19 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 20 | He pretended he did n't know me or did n't want to . |
| 21 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
| 22 | Somehow I felt I could not , or did not want to , explain about Miss Havisham and her strange house . |
| 23 | It seemed as if Walterkin 's request for more information had become a subliminal trigger which Lucien could not , or did not want to , ignore . |
| 24 | The possibility of an indefinitely long list of necessary indices or co-ordinates thus has to be faced . |
| 25 | ‘ Rock should not , or does n't intend to , appeal to the intelligentsia , because your balls have nothing to do with your brains . |
| 26 | Trollope portrays her as someone who knows she is cynical and too worldly , but knows she can not , or does not want to , do anything about it . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the degree to which custom , as directly observed , conforms or does not conform to a predetermined stereotype needs to be looked at very carefully . |
| 28 | ( c ) You may find that Halliday 's model of thematic analysis does not apply to your language at all or does not apply to some of its sentence patterns . |
| 29 | The difficulty arises when it is uncertain whether or not the competent adult ( as I call her for brevity ) does or does not consent to the proposed treatment . |
| 30 | There is , I think , no material distinction between interpreting the law for the purposes of applying it , having due regard to article 10 , and interpreting the law for the purposes of deciding , when the point has not been finally decided by the courts , whether the law does or does not provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel . |