Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family . |
| 2 | Initially , I had to decide how to use the space : whether to place a separate work in each room or to accept the perceptual boundaries of the Duveen Galleries as a given and conceive a work which would deal with the space in its entirety . |
| 3 | What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change . |
| 4 | These areas provided havens for gambling schools , and the police did not dare to venture there except in strength — when attempts to break up street-gambling , or to douse the high spirits of Bonfire Night could lead to violent eruptions . |
| 5 | The boss , Mr. Uphill , always had his sleeves rolled up way past the elbows — whether for comfort or to exhibit the many tattoos which covered his arms is anyone 's guess . |
| 6 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 7 | The inflexional system of Latin , however , made it freely possible to subvert these norms , for rhetorical effect , to topicalise or focus , or to create the metre-governed structures of poetry . |
| 8 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 9 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
| 10 | I personally find it hardest to deal with married men , still sexually active with their wives while seeking casual unsafe sex with gay men and refusing either to change their sexual style or to consider the possible results . |
| 11 | A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems . |
| 12 | ‘ To be neutral … is to do one 's best to help or to hinder the various parties concerned in an equal degree . ’ |
| 13 | In all these societies there are contradictory movements , either to limit or to expand the social services ; movements which take place in what are still substantially free market economies , but raise the question whether there can be any further development of the welfare state without restricting still more the operation of the market and eventually creating a more socialist type of economy in which public ownership of some major productive resources and financial institutions , and more extensive planning , would have a larger role . |
| 14 | In the Fourth Duma ( 1912–17 ) the government showed little concern to defuse opposition or to exploit the deep divisions between its more moderate critics and the small minority of radical Left deputies . |
| 15 | I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided . |
| 16 | They offer three options for Horton : to Roughly stay as they are when they become a health Service Trust ; TO ’ Examine ’ the Accident and other acute services ; or to move the acute services away to major hospitals . |
| 17 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 18 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 19 | It would be worthless to dwell on the strengths and weaknesses of the regrading exercise here , other than to acknowledge the apparent difficulties associated with it . |
| 20 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 21 | No more low-tech warming of domestic water supplies — these scientists were trying nothing less than to mimic the early stages of photosynthesis , it collecting solar photons and trapping their energy in an act of electronic charge separation . |
| 22 | On his instructions , the bombardment was intense but lasted less than a day , its object being to take out selected points in the enemy 's defence , rather than to destroy the Austrian trenches . |
| 23 | However , if it 's being done to honour British art rather than to satisfy the mundane demands of space packaging , that could be quite interesting . |
| 24 | It is in fact no more ‘ theoreticist ’ than the basic liberal idea of culture , in which It is presumed that the universal source of cultural production is ‘ individual expression ’ , so that to study the social relations of cultural activity is to describe the conditions which bear on this norm , permitting or preventing its ‘ free exercise ’ . |
| 25 | On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants . |
| 26 | This is why , among other reasons , orthodox sociology has found it ( apparently ) easier to analyse cultural effects , where large numbers and control groups are available , than to analyse the social relations of cultural production . |
| 27 | The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it . |
| 28 | It is so much easier to prescribe a pill than to change the social conditions that may be responsible for the severity of the symptoms . |
| 29 | That is not to say that to get the best results you must be a strict vegetarian but , based on contemporary research , a move toward that direction makes sense . |
| 30 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |