Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 2 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 3 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 4 | Perhaps because to think about reform is to think about its purposes , Mr Honecker and his colleagues keep their minds closed to such challenges . |
| 5 | If ; when your parents begin to draw a National Insurance retirement pension , they go on working , or their former employer is paying them a pension , their code will need to be changed so as to take into account the National Insurance pension . |
| 6 | Rates developed as a direct tax on an individual 's income levied so as to take into account his or her capacity to pay . |
| 7 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 8 | They should discuss the best way of monitoring loan arrangements within the company so as to put in place a control system to avoid these problems . |
| 9 | Find way of treating glass so as to respond to viewer 's gaze ? |
| 10 | Housing — Secure tenancy — Death of tenant — Tenant obtaining tenancy of council house 10 days before death — Tenant 's brother living with him in different council premises during 12 months prior to death — Whether brother ‘ resided with ’ deceased tenant so as to succeed to tenancy — Housing Act 1985 ( c. 68 ) , s. 87 |
| 11 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 12 | The belief in the broadcasting market is not without its difficulties : how can a multiplicity of channels be introduced so as to allow for consumer choice and how does one overcome the possible detrimental consequences of the market mechanism ? |
| 13 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 14 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 15 | Zou 's report called for greater control of investment in fixed assets , which had reportedly risen by 21 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the same period of 1990 , so as to concentrate on priority projects including water conservation , agriculture , energy , transport , key raw materials , health and education . |
| 16 | Purchase behaviour will , again , be altered so as to come into line with the customary behaviour of the reference group . |
| 17 | While he pretends to foster it loyally all the while so as to stay in contact with it ? ’ |
| 18 | A handful of people crossed the harbour square , dawdling on their way home or to drink after work . |
| 19 | Disillusioned with the ministry before he had even entered it , Vincent now said damningly that to trade in religion was on a par with trading in art or tulip bulbs . |
| 20 | Such a person is detached enough to think clearly and to advise without bias . |
| 21 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
| 22 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 23 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 24 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 25 | Meanwhile bureaux are advised to decide independently whether to cooperate with MSC schemes . |
| 26 | image , as well as to convey by implication a market of the status of the American OTC , toss around American phrases and terms in their sales presentations . |
| 27 | These meetings are intended to act as foci for the exchange of views and information between library staff and users , as well as to assist in library policy making . |
| 28 | It is hoped to develop and refine the approach by examining specific corporate behaviour and relationships as well as to contribute to analysis in these industrial sectors for major and selected minor European and US firms . |
| 29 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 30 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |