Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor will often feel it necessary to examine the pelvic organs manually to assess whether there is evidence of pelvic inflammatory disease , fibroids in the uterus , or to see whether the uterus is enlarged when pregnancy is suspected . |
| 2 | He might be brought in for periodic boosters or to help when the problem is in the degree of difficulty and intensity not experienced before . |
| 3 | It would be a mistake to claim too much for the career structure or to suggest that the graduation process is a rigid one . |
| 4 | Easy ways to detect this kind of outfit are to ask for popular , but not standard , typefaces or to suggest that the material will be coming on IBM format disk . |
| 5 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |
| 6 | I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported . |
| 7 | To call it a personal relationship or to believe that the individuals contributed more than its pleasantries is an illusion . |
| 8 | To speak of these ‘ new styles ’ of politics is not , of course , to say that political struggles between classes have ceased , but only that they may now be modified by other kinds of political action and be less predominant in political life as a whole ; or to argue that the nature , aims and strategies of the principal classes have changed substantially , as Mallet and Touraine have suggested . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , the court shall have power in any such proceedings to exempt any person from liability to make contribution , or to direct that the contribution to be recovered from any person shall amount to a complete indemnity . ’ |
| 10 | I could do little to help in this experience of childbirth except to urge that the mother should be kept in her rough bed on the floor and given proper nourishment . |
| 11 | The excitement beckons — and I 'll go no further at this stage than to wonder whether the Championship record of exactly 100 years ago might be repeated in 1992 , when England beat Ireland , Wales and Scotland ( just ! ) , |
| 12 | There is very little in the way of overall explanation and analysis other than to assume that the complex arises because individuals in the military and large corporations want to protect their own selfish interests . |
| 13 | The Welsh Development Agency says that to ensure that the Wrexham project got under way as quickly as possible ‘ it cooperated fully ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I do agree , ’ said Miss Waters , then regretted that she had agreed too quickly , for Mrs Bostock would venture no further except to opine that the Reverend Frere was , at the very least , too little of this world to serve as a useful guide to the next . |
| 15 | First , ‘ complete lives egalitarianism ’ : this approach suggests that to decide if the allocation of resources between people is fair , we should compare the allocation of resources over the complete life . |
| 16 | than to decide that the following two sentences had the same meaning : |
| 17 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 18 | The portfolio will be further expanded in the future as extra Unix variants are supported ; no names yet , except to say that the company is not rushing to implement under IBM Corp 's AIX : most customers who are interested in a Unix version are looking for prime open system vendors , says UK marketing manager David Miller , adding that AIX is not usually towards the top of the list . |
| 19 | The portfolio will be further expanded in the future as extra Unix variants are supported ; no names yet , except to say that the company is not rushing to implement under IBM Corp 's AIX : most customers who are interested in a Unix version are looking for prime open system vendors , says UK marketing manager David Miller , adding that AIX is not usually towards the top of the list . |
| 20 | I shall not comment further , except to say that the consequences of such a step would need to be very carefully weighed . |
| 21 | I think also if you read it through there 's no insurance jargon in there at all , except to say that the policy 's underwritten by a Department of Trade approved insurer . |
| 22 | Further comment might be superfluous , except to say that the disposal of fission products should interest many chemist but is hardly central to a text on inorganic chemistry . |
| 23 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 24 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 25 | And to see that the salt was there and the mattresses were up and that was great . |
| 26 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 27 | Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 28 | In 1667 the Marquess of Worcester , as Constable of St Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean , was ordered to revive the Forest courts there and to see that the Forest laws were obeyed : their discontinuance had brought about ‘ great destruction of timber and retardment of its future growth ’ . |
| 29 | In Nigeria , it was the Resident 's task , not the emir 's , to assess the people for taxes and to see that the tax was collected . |
| 30 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |