Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 2 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 3 | Conversely , the Commission is given wide powers to deal with those who fail to notify mergers or to provide the information demanded of them or who implement mergers in contravention of an obligation to suspend . |
| 4 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 5 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |
| 6 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 7 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 8 | The golfers , four amateurs of handicaps ranging from 13 to 5 and four professionals , were told not to waggle the clubs or to bend the shaft on the ground but just to hit the ball . |
| 9 | But Lord Donaldson said he did not interpret the power in the 1981 Broadcasting Act to mean that Parliament intended the home secretary to have authority either covertly to censor programmes or to require the broadcasting authorities to present news programmes other than with due impartiality and accuracy . |
| 10 | Create a new opinion or attitude , based perhaps on new products or to pave the way for the introduction of long term plans . |
| 11 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 12 | It may be done to emphasize certain textural characteristics or to prepare a surface for staining ( see Section 4.52 ) . |
| 13 | The South Korean government rejected the proposal as containing nothing new , and was unwilling to agree to the participation of opposition parties or to allow the conference invitations to be delivered directly to Seoul . |
| 14 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 15 | In the rush for funds or to exploit the fusion fanaticism , few had the time or inclination to look beyond the surface and see the shaky foundations beneath . |
| 16 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 17 | Pronominal substitution is one of the several methods to link sentences and paragraphs and to allow the perception of an overall text . |
| 18 | These cases illustrate the importance which the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords attached to the need not to constrain the Commission and the Office of Fair Trading within narrow bounds and to emphasize the width of their discretionary powers . |
| 19 | Beyond this , the Federation magazines served to publicise forthcoming meetings and courses , to inform branch secretaries of one another 's addresses and to provide a forum for members to exchange ideas : for instance an article by George Tweed of Cambridge branch in the Fenland Bulletin of spring 1956 and another by ‘ Cesnoh ’ in the Hertfordshire Parcel of autumn 1957 both stressed the importance of personal canvassing as a means of recruiting students to courses . |
| 20 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 21 | To follow up initial discussions with interested parties and to arrange a number of presentations . |
| 22 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 23 | To investigate system development teams as social units and to provide a re-appraisal of the predominant organisational models used to account for the management of system development teams . |
| 24 | Companies have always needed to be fully aware of events in their marketplace , to recognise opportunities and to maintain the flexibility to take advantage of them . |
| 25 | The US 's solution to the problem of its own borders and indigenous peoples had been to expand until stopped by force , to renege on all treaties with native peoples and to conduct a policy of genocide and dispossession which , though it reached a peak in the years 1860–90 , continued well into the 1920s . |
| 26 | Only the coven leaders had contact with each other to prevent infiltration of spies and to reduce the risk of others being incriminated should one of their number be arrested and interrogated . |
| 27 | Ataturk was able to control the mullahs and to find a place for them as well as for merchants and intellectuals in the new Turkey . |
| 28 | Our small scale numbers confirm the earlier studies quoted , that is , that older children especially , seem able to distinguish between different types of relationships and to have the capacity to relate to more than one set of parent figures simultaneously . |
| 29 | Each received a variant of Nora 's lofty homily on the virtues of staying calm and of reposing confidence in firms whose soundness was beyond question — plus , to be sure , the gold to back the words and to sugar the message . |
| 30 | Suddenly I wanted to hear the sound of human voices and to feel the warmth and comfort of loved ones . |