Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MDC insists that , in the short term , most of its expenditure has not been intended to create but to regenerate physically derelict dockland areas and create confidence in a depressed local economy . |
| 2 | The first thing which strikes one is the speed with which bodies are expected to respond or to change . |
| 3 | Impartial Guidance : Magistrates are expected to decide whether to grant access to parents , guardians or custodians , and , if they do so , to determine the conditions of access . |
| 4 | Thus , treatment with cyclooyxgenase inhibitors has been reported to augment or to suppress glucose induced insulin release . |
| 5 | Nor did he know whether the fridge had been manufactured to last or to become obsolescent quickly ; nor whether it consumed more or less electricity to run than other models ; nor whether , when it was defunct , its parts could or would be recycled . |
| 6 | A will apparently has the function of bequeathing but it might also be intended to please or to repudiate — and to a historian , though that was not the intention , it may function as information . |
| 7 | A major effort needs to be made to generate and to use energy more efficiently . |
| 8 | They can be said to determine and to indetermine , both to record , and to distort and desert , the facts of his life . |
| 9 | Internal friction , as measured , for example , by damped free oscillations of a pendulum , may be related to creep and to stress relaxation if the deformations are small enough for linear viscoelasticity to be assumed . |
| 10 | The corporate approach is a management instrument that can be used to serve or to oppose any particular external interests ’ ( Stewart J 1983 : 172 — 3 ) . |
| 11 | Whatever knowledge there is to be gleaned from this year 's batch of accidents will not be of an academic nature , but will be used to teach and to train for the future . |
| 12 | They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways . |
| 13 | It can be used to communicate and to discommunicate , to bring people nearer to one another and to separate them ; to liberate human beings and to control them ; to iron out differences and to make and establish differences ; to clarify and mystify . |
| 14 | In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles . |
| 15 | Production work — students should be encouraged to prioritise and to produce work within deadlines throughout , in order to mirror as closely as possible the conditions of the workplace . |
| 16 | These are the highly successful , who must be encouraged to stay and to do well for they are the motor that pulls the rest up ; they create prosperity and employ other people . |
| 17 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 18 | Industry should be allowed to fashion and to shape its own policies based on the needs of the employer group companies . |
| 19 | Above all , teachers are trained to listen and to talk to children . |
| 20 | The question that people who are forced to decide whether to discard or not are liable to ask is : ‘ What have the students actually lost if these books go ? |
| 21 | It appeared to some that somehow the police had been left to solve or to break the strike by impeding the exercise of the rights of persuasion and protest aimed at bringing out the miners who were still at work . |
| 22 | Today committee members were meeting to decide whether to close the school down . |
| 23 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 24 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 25 | A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems . |
| 26 | The release of information by the assistant was too fast for normal ears to follow , but the Sechem were trained to understand and to interpret for one another . |
| 27 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 28 | If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told . |
| 29 | Respondents were encouraged to relax and to contribute to the discussion at will . |
| 30 | Professional anthropologists , for whom Lugard and the Northern Residents had had no use , were encouraged to study and to recommend . |