Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 3 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 4 | ‘ I would love to write to or to meet anyone with similar interests , or with children of a similar age . ’ |
| 5 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 6 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 7 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 8 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 9 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 10 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 11 | It can also be used to establish the propensity of different ACORN categories to buy different products or services , or to use them at particular rates ; and to analyse their exposure and reaction to different forms of promotional and advertising media . |
| 12 | ‘ I have no doubt , ’ comments Stewart , ‘ that one or two of those medical symptoms are genuine ; but the main problem for these youngsters collapsing and feeling very ill is just plain exhaustion , or to put it in simple mountaineering jargon — physically knackered . ’ |
| 13 | Or to put it in another way , for Gandhi the stone partakes of the nature of that which it represents . |
| 14 | Or to put it in another way Truth is God . |
| 15 | Hardy suggests two types of strategy which may be used to turn conflict into competition or argument , or to manage it in some other acceptable way . |
| 16 | If we do something pleasant to a horse , like worming it , or giving injection , or something else , we are likely to care and stroke it afterwards , or to reward it in some other way , such as with food . |
| 17 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 18 | Most of them , protected by their voluntary-aided status , resisted for twenty years and more all attempts to change their fiercely academic character or to entangle them in vague schemes of amalgamation or co-operation with secondary modern schools . |
| 19 | Three years after its publication , less than half of Solihull 's secondary school teachers claim to have seen the booklet , and a much smaller proportion claim to have read it all , or to recall it at all well . |
| 20 | He wanted to grasp the newness , or to measure it in some way , hardly daring to hope that it was good . |
| 21 | There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think . |
| 22 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 23 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 24 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 25 | No injunction will be granted to restrain the repetition of an allegedly libellous statement if the publishers indicate an intention to call evidence at the trial to prove the truth of their statement , or to defend it as honest comment . |
| 26 | Sinhalese cattle medicine called for branding the animal with particular designs in order to give it strength or to cure it of various illnesses . |
| 27 | If your employer has the right , for example , to insist that you undertake certain other tasks or to move you to another department , your job will be at risk if you dig in your heels and disobey . |
| 28 | The only way to show work is to show it either absolutely by itself , in a very plain setting , so that you can notice every detail of how the light falls on it and so on , or to show it with other absolutely minimal works , so again you get this utter simplicity and you become very aware of the space in which the thing is hanging and so on , but there must be a very clear , simple setting , as indeed for new classicism , and I sometimes think that this kind of art is the son or grandson of new classicism , in which incidentally Britain was the leading country . |
| 29 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 30 | THE African National Congress leader , Mr Nelson Mandela , has been urged by colleagues to announce his official separation from his volatile wife , Winnie , and to strip her of political office to avoid continued embarrassment to the organisation . |