Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever the force of this cryptic remark , it is up to us as readers to find a value for these preferences , or else to dismiss them as the outcome of prejudice or eccentricity . |
| 2 | Most of us tend to see things as wholes or else to analyse them into the obvious parts . |
| 3 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 4 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
| 5 | Some libraries want their own library group others are quite happy to be joined in with one or more libraries within the adjoining group and the constitution does in fact provide that investment wish what we have n't said what those who should be at maximum membership membership and to their claim will common sense not to make it too large otherwise it might turn out to be more than than sensible discussion among a reasonable amount of people but this but then to decide that equally to encourage them to ah find ways and means of the public other than library users who will be represented on the committee and to that . |
| 6 | This was the " United Front from Below " ; the attempt to separate Labour Party members from their leaders and eventually to recruit them into the Communist Party . |
| 7 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 8 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 9 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |
| 10 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 11 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 12 | And Mr Robinson explained : ‘ The meeting was called to let the fans have their say and also to put them in the picture . |
| 13 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help self-employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 14 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 15 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 16 | We are tempted , perhaps , to associate them with what they are of , or what they represent , and hence to remove them from where they otherwise would seem to be , and hence to be lost for a location to which to assign them . |
| 17 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 18 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 19 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 20 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 21 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 22 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 23 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 24 | I prefer to rinse the olives well if they have been bottled in brine and then to toss them in a little olive oil and leave for an hour or two before serving . |
| 25 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 26 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 27 | They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members , but only to represent them to outsiders . |
| 28 | But also to put them in position whereby in the future , as the needs for further services emerge , they will be able erm , to , to contribute with the department for , for those services for that er , appropriate funding . |
| 29 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 30 | It is preceded by a prologue ( Genesis 1–11 ) , consisting of ancient records and traditions , which serve not only to introduce the main themes of the narrative but also to relate them to God 's purposes in the world of fallen men , of divided nations and of a created order which was originally good . |