Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinction between public law and private law can , therefore , be used either to accord government special privileges , or to impose on it special responsibilities and duties and to subject it to special controls . |
| 2 | Is the first aim to make money ( we must obviously avoid losing it ! ) or to provide for our personal needs ? |
| 3 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 4 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 5 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 6 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 7 | The removal of this will mean that thousands of residents will be unable to obtain the legal assistance in matters like arranging family visits or to look into their own circumstances . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't ask to get hit on the head — or to intrude on your private property , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 9 | Dialogues are carried on to tell the reader something he must know , or to infuse into him some explanations of a writer . |
| 10 | Mr asked why we should close our homes and let private homes profit erm , if people choose either to go into the private sector or to stay into their own homes , what are we supposed to do tell them they 've got no choice but to keep our substandard homes going ? |
| 11 | Does the Minister agree that the best right for the people of the United Kingdom under any citizens charter would be the right to live and to go about their daily work without the continual threat of terrorism ? |
| 12 | This approach however is not without problems and to cope with them sophisticated administration systems are needed exercising controls in five main areas : |
| 13 | Certainly man desires peace in his inner conscience and to cope with his outward circumstances , but what is true peace ? |
| 14 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 15 | Students will be expected to identify the strengths and weaknesses in their contribution to the investigation and to comment on their personal feelings and reactions and on the value of the learning gained to their personal and social development . |
| 16 | they provide an opportunity for students to explain their intentions and values and to comment on their own performance , thus contributing to the collaborative nature of the assessment procedure . |
| 17 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 18 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 19 | He had no idea that Finch was trying to get him to stop being an accompanist and to work on his own . |
| 20 | Preparers of financial statements are encouraged to comment on the disclosure requirements proposed in the FRED and to indicate with which specific requirements it might be particularly costly or difficult to comply . |
| 21 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 22 | The defendants , caught between the need to demonstrate their innocence and to stand by their political commitment , opted to make a political defence . |
| 23 | Gradually , I learnt to live more comfortably with a ‘ foot in both worlds ’ , and to revel in my new way-of-being . |
| 24 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 25 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 26 | His reaction to his new situation was perhaps predictable — he decided to travel again , both for interest and to reflect on his own future . |
| 27 | It was hardly surprising that kings wanted solemn oaths from their servants , the bishops , that they looked upon bishoprics as income and that , in line with the symbolic ceremonies of society , they expected to " invest " their appointees and to receive from them solemn oaths of fidelity . |
| 28 | Both plans were designed to assist your parents and to help on your dear sister , but above all to build up your own name and reputation in the world . |
| 29 | By building up a good soil structure and providing conditions where all the natural soil flora and fauna can thrive , it is possible to realize the full potential of any piece of land , and to grow on it vigorous , healthy crops and livestock . |
| 30 | Those giving papers were asked to emphasize humans as meaning-makers , rather than humans as biological primates , and to elucidate from their own ethnographic experience the indigenous meanings of concepts relevant for an understanding of human interpersonal and , wherever applicable , intersocietal relations . |