Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country . |
| 2 | There is also the question of whether to buy on credit or to pay cash . |
| 3 | The referee glared at the crowd as if to ask for silence : how is a wrestler supposed to concentrate ? |
| 4 | She also wore large red-frame glasses , although she wore them on top of her head , as if to keep in place the shock of ginger-red red hair which she 'd rubber-banded into a pony tail down most of the length of her back . |
| 5 | Increasing intra-abdominal pressure by straining as if to defecate in control subjects produced a variety of anal pressure waveforms incorporating both anal contraction and anal relaxation ( Table II ) , and corresponding with the external anal sphincter myoelectrical activity . |
| 6 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 7 | It was always better to know what was going on than to lie in bed with the door shut and wonder what was happening . |
| 8 | Having become deadlocked along party lines over whether to call for censure , the committee decided instead to present the case against Cranston on the Senate floor on Nov. 21 , a rare step for discipline short of formal censure . |
| 9 | The limitation that can now be placed on the child-bearing and child-rearing years gives women a greater choice as to whether to return to work sooner , later or not at all . |
| 10 | The life president of Malawi , Kamuzu Banda , bowed to opposition pressure and said he would not insist on having two ballot boxes , one for yeses , one for noes , at next month 's referendum on whether to move to democracy . |
| 11 | No decision has been made on whether to renegotiate with EASE , sign up with one of the several other electronic systems now operating , or , like County Auctions , develop its own system . |
| 12 | They believe that no part of the money should be used to finance Sizewell C , proposals for which are still on the drawing board awaiting a decision on whether to apply for planning permission . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Unix System Laboratories Inc is probably going to have to make a business decision about whether to buy in Motif from the outside . |