Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advancement means a sum of money paid to a child to start him in business or to make a permanent provision for him ; it does not include casual payments given as a present or to help to tide over temporary difficulties . |
| 2 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 3 | And I did n't know whether to laugh with pleasure or to cry with pain . |
| 4 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 5 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 6 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 7 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 8 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 9 | There were also plans to privatize the steel industry and to sell off majority or minority shareholdings in state-owned cement , food processing , pulp , mining and chemical concerns . |
| 10 | Attempts by Irish women , lesbian and heterosexual , to voice our oppression and to struggle for support were largely ignored . |
| 11 | You can reckon to need twenty to support a 100-yard net , allowing a few spares to be on the safe side and to allow for breakage . |
| 12 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 13 | The connecting trench was constantly full of water now , and because the firing-step was in danger of crumbling there was no alternative for someone who wanted to visit the other wheel but to wade through water and mud . |
| 14 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 15 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 16 | If they are held in overcrowded conditions , unfit for a dog to live in , and have no meaningful occupation — I do not mean soulless , non-productive work — they have no alternative but to fall into mischief and cause trouble . |
| 17 | In the end , since the pope refused to free him , he had no alternative but to continue in office . |
| 18 | The otter has no alternative but to retreat in agony and attempt to prize the claws free . |
| 19 | The decision to take time off work or to return to work is complicated and will vary between individuals and at different times . |
| 20 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 21 | Where any person by speech or writing seeks to persuade others to violate existing law or to overthrow by force or other unlawful means the existing government , he may be punished … but all other utterances or publications against the government must be considered absolutely privileged . |
| 22 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 23 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 24 | It must also be pointed out that the Sub-Group is a sub-group of Management Group , and its functions are to advise Management and to put into effect Management policy on computing issues . |
| 25 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 26 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 27 | It aims to promote community broadcasting and to press for legislation . |
| 28 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 29 | In a demanding situation , as thus defined , people inevitably begin to experience overload and to feel under pressure . |
| 30 | I 'm not such a fool as to look for love again . ’ |