Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 2 | The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net . |
| 3 | the main , or one of the main , reasons for the business ' structure was to avoid registration ( not , say , due to the partial exemption rules or to get limited liability protection or facilitate a part sale ) ; |
| 4 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 5 | A grammar could , of course , be used to reject certain word candidates or to assign higher probability to some over others , and thus reduce the number of paths . |
| 6 | Decisions to award generous executive bonuses or to provide plush executive dining rooms and executive parking places tell the old story of entrepreneurial heroism . |
| 7 | Other bears will also use tools in captivity ; spectacled bears use leafy branches , provided for them to eat , to knock fruit off overhanging branches or to retrieve floating bread from water . |
| 8 | For those not wishing to specialise in statistics , some courses may be taken as options with Mathematics honours or in an ordinary degree ; such possibilities are valuable to those who intend to teach in schools or to take other employment in which they will apply mathematics . |
| 9 | ‘ Is our school a good school ? ’ is unlikely to draw many negative responses or to provide much insight into the sources of satisfaction or dissatisfaction . |
| 10 | The brewers are moving over to leases not to improve the running of their pubs or to offer better service to customers but simply to avoid new government legislation aimed at giving tenants greater protection . |
| 11 | Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing . |
| 12 | There has been no need to supplement the Chair 's VDU with printers or copiers or to provide expensive video projection or multiple large-screen monitors to allow the whole Committee to view such data . |
| 13 | President Joseph Momoh had appealed for assistance from the United Kingdom and the United States during April , but there were no indications that either country intended to commit troops or to supply lethal equipment . |
| 14 | The reaction of the more serious dramatists of our era to this public was to appeal to irrelevant moral-religious feelings or to use contemporary material to arouse equally irrelevant socio-political emotions like patriotism . |
| 15 | Borland has no plans to downgrade its Dbase and Paradox database efforts or to encourage these database users to migrate to InterBase . |
| 16 | Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them . |
| 17 | It was done in code , naturally , and sometimes people had to meet , for handovers or to relay difficult intelligence . |
| 18 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 19 | Consider their versatility ; their ability to blend happily with traditional surroundings or to lend extra character to a prestige project , with rich colours that brighten the most sombre scene — colours that mellow with time . |
| 20 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 21 | The Opposition have made absolutely no commitment to provide free phones or to increase public expenditure on telecommunications infrastructure in any way . |
| 22 | The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but . |
| 23 | Recipients are free to decide how to use the allowance , either as a contribution to general household expenses or to buy extra care . |