Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a person wishes to give up his physical integrity in certain circumstances , or to risk it for the sake of sport or excitement , should the criminal law allow the consent to negative what would otherwise be a crime ? |
| 2 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 3 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 4 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 5 | From time to time Shelly Films held evening previews of certain feature films , either for clients , or to screen them for the local parent company . |
| 6 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 7 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 8 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 9 | As long as people find the Christian story good there is reason to believe in it , or to believe it with the exception of some of the more minor matters such as virgin birth or the creation stories which they have had to decide are untrue ( or only symbolically true ) . |
| 10 | Plant in late spring , and clip in mid-spring if required to be grown formally as edging , or to keep it within the space available . |
| 11 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 12 | For example , a disabled plaintiff may require a motor car equipped with special devices to enable him to get in and out of it or to control it on the road . |
| 13 | There is a concern that the Panel would no longer have the same flexibility to adapt the rules to take account of new market practices , or to waive them in the interests of fairness . |
| 14 | ‘ If you are still not satisfied after that you can threaten to issue a court summons or to take it to the ombudsman . ’ |
| 15 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 16 | In any case , if Siward knew fresh forces were coming , you 'd expect him either to gather his forces and try to reverse the battle quickly , or to muster them in the forest and get away before the rest of the enemy could arrive . ’ |
| 17 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 18 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |
| 19 | Denying the vote to children is not based on some false assumption about 10-year-olds ' political knowledge , nor to deny that they have interests , nor to protect them from the harm their votes might do . |
| 20 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 21 | to deal with entries entailing exemption from part of the Course on behalf of the Polytechnic Dispensations Committee , to set appropriate conditions for such entries and to report them to the Dispensations Committee ; and |
| 22 | Clinton ordered agencies with facilities that release toxic pollutants , including military bases and research laboratories , to develop a plan to reduce their output by half by 1999 , and to report them to the public as private companies are now required to do . |
| 23 | That was a case in which a district board took it upon themselves to pull down Mr. Cooper 's house , which they regarded as unsatisfactory , and to burden him with the cost of demolition without having first given him any type of notice . |
| 24 | We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out . |
| 25 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 26 | A broader academic aim is to relate the effects identified to other processes of retail change and to compare them with the impact of other major developments . |
| 27 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 28 | And to treat him like the prodigal son was stupid . |
| 29 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 30 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |