Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [coord] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to try and improve the lives of the people who would one day be his subjects ? |
| 2 | It is also a criminal offence to falsify , destroy or otherwise dispose of , or to cause or permit the falsification , concealment , destruction or disposal of documents which you know or suspect are or would be relevant to the investigation . |
| 3 | The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) . |
| 4 | Secondly if the first question is answered affirmatively , it is necessary to consider whether there are any considerations which ought to negative , or to reduce or limit the scope of duty or the class of person to whom it is owed or the damages to which a breach of it may give rise . |
| 5 | The effect is consequently a reversion to the pre-Anns position of developing new categories of duty incrementally by analogy with established categories rather than by a wide prima facie duty constrained only by undefined ‘ considerations which ought to negate , or to reduce or limit the scope of the duty or the class of persons to whom it is owed ’ . |
| 6 | Governments might also wish to protect domestic industries to maintain industrial activity within the country , or to maintain or develop the country 's involvement in certain key industries , such as electronics , defence equipment and so on . |
| 7 | Furthermore , landlords and managing agents were said to use a range of ‘ sharp practices ’ to circumvent the law or to stop or reduce the likelihood of tenants taking legal action . |
| 8 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |
| 9 | Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again . |
| 10 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 11 | Indeed , some of the film sequences we saw seemed to have no purpose or justification other than to reinforce or sell the idea that it can be highly pleasurable to inflict injury , pain or humiliation ( often in a sexual context ) on others . |
| 12 | Before you begin to think that it might be safer to starve than to eat and run the risk of food poisoning , it 's important to get the whole matter of food poisoning into perspective . |
| 13 | Here the individualistic , childhood-makes-man approach is relatively trivial and , paradoxically , can do little more than to complement and compound the worst aspects of the holistic fallacy by narrowly explaining adult character as a function of cultural conditioning and contemporary family circumstances . |
| 14 | The corporate identity has been updated to reflect Rentokil 's wide diversity of business activities and to promote and endorse the ‘ Rentokil ’ brand around the world during the 1990s . |
| 15 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 16 | But acceptance has been conditional on the university being able to raise £1.5 million to build a suitable building , and to conserve and endow the collection . |
| 17 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 18 | In the case of bush and shrub types , this will ideally be from the base of the plant to avoid the main road from becoming any longer than it need be , and to preserve and constrain the overall size of the bush . |
| 19 | 6.3 Superior lease Where the lease is an underlease , the tenant should consider inserting the following landlord 's covenants : To pay the rents reserved by the [ superior Lease ] dated and made between and to observe and perform the covenants agreements and conditions on the part of the tenant contained therein and to enforce the covenants on the part of the Landlord in the said Lease Not to agree to the variation of any of the terms of the [ superior Lease ] without first obtaining the Tenant 's written consent [ such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ] |
| 20 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 21 | Apart from the CDs I have already reviewed , I have been playing through others in the series to get things into perspective and to try and plot the diverse range of Liszt 's output which has so far been performed and recorded with such remarkable consistency . |
| 22 | This interest drove me to inquire in depth into the experiences and feelings of individuals and to try and identify the processes by which they came to define themselves and other people under one set of categories rather than another . |
| 23 | Some want Taligent to go with Mach 3.0 instead of Opus-for-openness , and to try and get the stuff out earlier , even if it were to mean having to tie up loose ends as it went along . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 26 | He decided to adopt a different approach and to try and teach the Bible through story-telling . |
| 27 | The main objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the processes by which dominant firms achieve and maintain dominance in their markets and industries ; to explore the determinants of profitability of these firms ( especially the role of investment in R&D ) , particularly where they are apparently able to earn high profits persistently over time ; to evaluate their dynamic efficiency in terms of new products , improved quality and cost-reducing new technology ; and to inform and strengthen the policy analysis of dominant firms . |
| 28 | The task of teachers is to help the less able master basic skills , to meet the needs of the children of average ability and to encourage and satisfy the needs of the children who are exceptionally able . |
| 29 | Before applying for legal aid , the solicitors consider that it will be necessary to see the video of the boy 's interview with the police and social services , and to obtain and consider the social service records . |
| 30 | If on the other hand residential accommodation is granted for a term at a rent with exclusive possession , the landlord providing neither attendance nor services , the grant is a tenancy ; any express reservation to the landlord of limited rights to enter and view the state of the premises and to repair and maintain the premises only serves to emphasise the fact that the grantee is entitled to exclusive possession and is a tenant . |