Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also played the same games in the playground , and when a group had the same work in class , everybody would whisper or signal the answer to everyone else , + everyone put down the same things , whether right or wrong ! |
| 2 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 3 | Moreover , because individuals are likely to be members of more than one interest ( " cross-cutting ties " ) and more than one group ( " overlapping membership " ) this will soften or moderate a commitment to any single interest . |
| 4 | The things in the ‘ outside world ’ which we use to embody or give a shape to our feelings are our metaphors . |
| 5 | The other partners are only safe if the individual who acted had no authority in fact and the party with whom he dealt either knew about the absence of authority or else did not know or believe the individual to be a partner . |
| 6 | The court may order the husband to convey or transfer the home to the wife absolutely in the following manner : It is ordered that the Respondent shall transfer as beneficial owner to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order the property at 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre . |
| 7 | In addition , repeated exposure to violence over time can desensitize or dull a child to the effects of aggression and the signs of pain in others . |
| 8 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 9 | Turning over , she looked up at Damien 's dog-face , and then sat up quickly , trying to repair or disguise the ravages to her appearance caused by the emotional racking she had just endured . |
| 10 | The House also has the power to admonish or issue a reprimand to those in contempt . |
| 11 | An open question is useful as a probe to clarify or expand the answer to a closed question , e.g. ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 12 | Thus the hospitals , schools and universities should learn how to help these conscientious citizens to provide financial assistance rather than expect the Treasury to be constantly replenishing their begging-bowls . |
| 13 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 14 | Some juniors complain that partial shifts have been introduced to cut costs rather than improve the service to patients and reduce doctors ' workload . |
| 15 | If you want their details for records then it is simpler to fill in the form yourself while conducting the interview rather than submit the candidates to the unnecessary stress of coping with a form . |
| 16 | They inspired the efforts of Admirals D'Estaing and De Grasse in the War of the American Revolution to seize British West Indian islands and evade rather than destroy the fleets to which they were opposed . |
| 17 | Rather than concede a point to me , the inspector insisted that the meeting be held , in true spy novel fashion , in the open air . |
| 18 | Freud preferred to help an individual work out a set of goals and norms for himself , within the psychoanalytic setting , rather than propose a return to a tightly structured civilization . |
| 19 | For example , a trip to the Barringtons , a group of villages in the Cotswolds left to ruin by the local landowner rather than allow the houses to be purchased by or let to ex-urbanites , will show that the ‘ loss of community ’ in both a Physical and a social sense , has not been caused by newcomers moving in . |
| 20 | In the heavy engineering industry , as well as internal labour markets , Japanese employers also chose paternalistic practices and employee welfare provisions , rather than accept the threat to their power posed by trade unions and collective bargaining ( Okayama , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Recent evidence suggests that Helicobacter pylori and ingestion of NSAIDs may interact to influence and enhance the susceptibility to gastroduodenal ulceration . |
| 22 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
| 23 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) The clerk of each licensing board shall make out and deliver a licence to every person to whom a licence is granted by the board . |
| 25 | Paul Leon , a Russian Jew , who was Joyce 's closest confidant and business adviser , risked his own life to return and deliver the papers to an Irish diplomat . |
| 26 | The way horses pass messages between themselves will be the way that they will try and impart a message to us . |
| 27 | Thus a pattern mask will greatly reduce the time available for a letter detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems , but will not affect the time available to a word detector . |
| 28 | It will , therefore , be capable of cutting short the period of time available for an activated word detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems . |
| 29 | Immunisation for teenage girls against rubella also reduces the chance that pregnant women will catch and transmit the infection to their unborn children , with possible resultant brain damage ; and biochemical screening of pregnant women to detect phenylketonuria enables the condition to be treated promptly in the newborn infant ( Graham , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | My destination was Victoria station where I would try and catch a boat-train to France . |