Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing out our good clothes or wasting hot water to wash them ! ’ |
| 2 | RBS has taken a hard look at its branches in England , and decided to shut isolated outposts or develop new outlets to support them . |
| 3 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 4 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 5 | During the union 's last strike on April 16 , Britain 's 11,000 mile rail network was brought to a standstill and nearly 100,000 London-bound East Anglian passengers were forced to either stay at home or make alternative arrangements to reach the capital . |
| 6 | The 600 Group made , or commissioned British firms to make , all the equipment in SCAMP . |
| 7 | Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up . |
| 8 | Radicals from across London , Britain , and Europe began to pour into the college to observe , participate , or make unsuccessful attempts to take the struggle into the correct channels . |
| 9 | This anxiety has been fuelled by , for example , changes to the basis of counting the numbers of unemployed people , changing the index for measuring poverty or using official figures to claim that the health service is enjoying unprecedented prosperity . |
| 10 | The ancients had surfed while other nations floundered in the water or built unwieldy vessels to keep them precariously afloat . |
| 11 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 12 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |
| 13 | he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the ( non-visitor ) is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case , whether the ( non-visitor ) has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and |
| 14 | Where the section states ‘ he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe ’ this applies to the situation where the occupier knows or is aware of the primary facts but fails to draw the reasonable inference that the premises are dangerous or that the non-visitor 's presence is likely . |
| 15 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 16 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 17 | However , by the early 1980s some LEAs began to adopt more prescriptive approaches , insisting on school policies fostering racial equality within given time limits ( e.g. ILEA , Brent ) , prescribing aspects of headteacher behaviour to ethnic minority parents ( e.g. Bradford ) , making certain forms of racist behaviour a disciplinary offence ( e.g. Manchester ) or establishing central mechanisms to decide upon school suspensions and so removing power from Heads and Governors ( e.g. Birmingham ) . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , pressure groups are variously encouraging retailers to open on a Sunday or urging local authorities to prosecute the law breakers , and labour MP Ray Powell 's Private Member 's Bill ( supported by the Keep Sunday Special Campaign ) is due for its second reading on 22nd January . |
| 19 | Some beds also have a manual or motor driven mechanism to raise the foot and/or head area . |
| 20 | Remember , you should not have to make a special journey or travel extra distances to recycle , as this will waste energy . |
| 21 | Moreover they could always use family labour or import casual labour to carry out any essential work . |
| 22 | The research sought to identify the key factors affecting urban economic change , to examine the consequences of change for the urban economy and the employment of inner city residents , and to assess the effects of public policies in impeding or facilitating urban adjustment to change . |
| 23 | Since the beginning of all storytelling , true lovers are shown as willing to die or face extreme hardship to save each other . |
| 24 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 25 | The Japanese takeover of Manchuria caused anxiety among major nations outside Asia , but faced with their own economic and political problems none was prepared to engage in military action or to use economic sanctions to assist China . |
| 26 | The reaction of the more serious dramatists of our era to this public was to appeal to irrelevant moral-religious feelings or to use contemporary material to arouse equally irrelevant socio-political emotions like patriotism . |
| 27 | Where the practice is found to be anti-competitive the Minister can then accept voluntary undertakings from the firm to modify its practice or invoke extensive powers to proscribe the practice . |
| 28 | The X/Open Group Co Ltd has missed its proposed May timeframe for rolling out XPG4 , the next version of its portability guide , which are a set of specifications designed to make it easier to develop open systems products , or to port proprietary offerings to open systems platforms . |
| 29 | Wiring together the jaws of compulsive overeaters or performing surgical Operations to reduce the abdominal apron or reduce the length of the intestines , and hence reduce their capacity to absorb food , or inserting inflatable balloons through an endoscopic tube into the stomach , or performing liposuction to various parts of the body , all show no understanding of the primary spiritual nature Of addictive disease . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence . |