Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Whatever the force of this cryptic remark , it is up to us as readers to find a value for these preferences , or else to dismiss them as the outcome of prejudice or eccentricity . |
| 2 | Most of us tend to see things as wholes or else to analyse them into the obvious parts . |
| 3 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 4 | This was the " United Front from Below " ; the attempt to separate Labour Party members from their leaders and eventually to recruit them into the Communist Party . |
| 5 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 6 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 7 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |
| 8 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 9 | And Mr Robinson explained : ‘ The meeting was called to let the fans have their say and also to put them in the picture . |
| 10 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help self-employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 11 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 12 | They had been advised not to keep them too cold and also to cover them with waxed paper . |
| 13 | We are tempted , perhaps , to associate them with what they are of , or what they represent , and hence to remove them from where they otherwise would seem to be , and hence to be lost for a location to which to assign them . |
| 14 | If it did not do so , they threatened to suspend trade agreements with Yugoslavia , and immediately to restore them with those individual republics which agreed to the plan — in effect to recognize their independence . |
| 15 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 16 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 17 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 18 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 19 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 20 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 21 | I prefer to rinse the olives well if they have been bottled in brine and then to toss them in a little olive oil and leave for an hour or two before serving . |
| 22 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 23 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 24 | They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members , but only to represent them to outsiders . |
| 25 | But also to put them in position whereby in the future , as the needs for further services emerge , they will be able erm , to , to contribute with the department for , for those services for that er , appropriate funding . |
| 26 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 27 | It is preceded by a prologue ( Genesis 1–11 ) , consisting of ancient records and traditions , which serve not only to introduce the main themes of the narrative but also to relate them to God 's purposes in the world of fallen men , of divided nations and of a created order which was originally good . |
| 28 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 29 | In order to get a response in subject searching , the user has had not only to specify his needs but also to specify them in a way that " matches " the system . |
| 30 | Treaty , included the right not only to take up activities as a self-employed person but also to pursue them in the broad sense of the term and that ‘ The renting of premises for business purposes furthers the pursuit of an occupation and therefore falls within the scope of article 52 of the E.E.C . |