Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God was there and there seemed no need to pray or sing hymns either to transport me away from the present reality or to ward off danger by attracting God 's attention . |
| 2 | We hope to finalize the fieldwork by the end of 1992 and to round up research by the middle of 1993 . |
| 3 | It can further be used to keep all members of the community informed , and to pass on information to other pressure groups and the general public . |
| 4 | The aims of the project are to investigate the development of attitudes towards everyday objects , names , and tunes , and to discover why liking for such things sometimes increases and sometimes declines when they become more familiar . |
| 5 | The Europeans were encouraged to devalue , and to open up trade between themselves before freeing their exchanges with the US . |
| 6 | Herringman is probably best known as the publisher of John Dryden [ q.v. ] , but his first enterprising move was to purchase the stock of John Holden , who had died in May 1652 , and to set up business at Holden 's former shop at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk , New Exchange , during 1653 . |
| 7 | Can not you trust me to ensure a square deal and to ensure even justice between man and man ? |
| 8 | They informed to curry favour and to build up credit against being informed on themselves , but also out of ambition , spite , jealousy and almost every other nasty motive found in human nature . |
| 9 | The Cumbria emergency planning system outlined above can , for instance , be used as an experimental tool , permitting police and emergency planners to simulate a hazard event and to call up information on resources , to identify possible areas for evacuation , to plan routes through the transport network , and so on . |
| 10 | In other moves to improve the government 's human rights record , Babangida instructed the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau to compile a list of people held under Decree 2 of 1984 , which permitted detention for six months without trial , and to speed up prosecution of those against whom evidence existed . |
| 11 | In later years , by contrast , he came to speak in public less and less frequently , despite being repeatedly urged to do so by Goebbels and others , evidently realizing only too well how closely the effectiveness of his rhetoric was dependent on being able to report success and to hold out hope for an end to the war . |
| 12 | Peyton may have decided to have Godfrey killed both because of his ‘ betrayal ’ and to stir up hatred against the Catholics , on whom suspicion would inevitably fall . |
| 13 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 14 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |
| 15 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 16 | Geophysical work in the core programme has been focused on interpreting existing datasets , particularly so as to pick up evidence of underlying structural controls and increase our three dimensional understanding of the crust . |