Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to put it another way : on the representational theory of mind , all learning is the testing of hypotheses which are already represented in the mind in some form ( for instance as sentences ) . |
| 2 | Or to put it another way , it 's like a Birmingham City player when … |
| 3 | He put it as follows : ‘ Marxism is essentially atheistic , or to put it another way : it is atheism which provides the radical aspect of the Marxist philosophy of life . |
| 4 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 5 | Doctors are expected to assess medical needs ; nurses are themselves expert at assessing nursing need , or to put it another way , at assessing the need for nursing aspects of care . |
| 6 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 7 | Or to put it another way , he maintained that Marxism can only constitute its totality through its perpetual detours from itself . |
| 8 | Or to put it another way : is there an ‘ East German history of art ’ which is fundamentally different from our own ? |
| 9 | Or to put it another way : would you swap Albert Reynolds for a used Charlie Haughey ? |
| 10 | Or to put it another way , the analysis lacks both a sense of humanism and a theory of ideology . |
| 11 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 12 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 13 | Why was this allowed to happen ; or to put it another way , why were issues of distribution within society put into second place ? |
| 14 | Or to put it another way , an extra 6MB free on a 40MB disk . |
| 15 | Or to put it another way : a nude ( bar the dog-collar ) clergyman , a semi-undressed nun and a loud , blowsy tart fighting a losing battle to stay inside a Marks & spencer blouse at least two sizes too small . |
| 16 | This may be true , or to put it another way , this may be trew . |
| 17 | Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries ! |
| 18 | It now leaves me with only the very pleasant duty to declare the congress open and to wish it great success . |
| 19 | Lévi-Strauss ' objections to Sartre 's theory of history on the grounds of its ethnocentrism was certainly to the point , demonstrating that one lesson of Sartre 's Herculean attempt to make history truth , and to give it one meaning , was the relation of such history to Western cultural imperialism . |
| 20 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 21 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 22 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You dream about scoring at Anfield — but to do it both ends and to silence the Kop is a fantastic feeling . ’ |
| 25 | But to end it three issues must be raised , which have been implicit rather than explicit within the argument so far : the relevance of the lack of clarity within much policy ; the significance of value conflict ; and the importance of rewards . |