Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is clear that a listed building is being neglected and is in urgent need of repair , and the owner has no plans to remedy this or to sell the property , the next stage is simple . |
| 2 | In attempting to elaborate upon this and to answer the question , ‘ How do we establish other rights , or define the content of the rights which are enumerated ? ’ , |
| 3 | Some stabilisation of Gaelic has occurred since 1961 and the project , following previous pilot studies , aims to indicate the factors promoting this and to assess the strength of factors working against language-maintenance . |
| 4 | The project aims to investigate the design of ‘ automatic ’ foreign-language dictionaries for visual look-up or for the purposes of machine aided translation ; to analyse the linguistic strategies needed for this and to study the operationalisation and computerisation of such methods . |
| 5 | To do this and to avoid the risk of future misunderstandings , ideally your terms and conditions should be : |
| 6 | In the contract the sellers had agreed to do this and to deliver the machine f.o.r . |
| 7 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 8 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 9 | This is also partly the reason why in Adorno 's theory music in a sense takes on too much autonomy , so much as to create a danger of a relapse into idealism . |
| 10 | Whilst not nearly as extensive , it embodies several of the same incentives , such as to improve the range and quality of one 's own services in order to attract more patients and to review carefully the appropriateness of utilising certain hospital services . |
| 11 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 12 | I invite the hon. Gentleman to consider that and to endorse the Bill . |
| 13 | So we have to somehow resolve that and to address the issue somehow — and we intend to . |
| 14 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 15 | D : A daring character who likes nothing more than to crack the whip and digs anything that has a bit of a history connected to it |
| 16 | The number of levels is arbitrary , but it certainly is apparent that there is a very light , superficial , cliche level of communication that serves little more than to acknowledge the presence of another person . |
| 17 | ‘ I can wait for you , ’ she said huskily , and Claudia wanted nothing more than to leave a car that was rapidly becoming far too small for three . |
| 18 | The efforts made at that time by Sartre , Camus , Merleau-Ponty et alia to rehabilitate Nizan achieved no more than to illustrate the impossibility of reasoned dialogue with the French communist party at moments of extreme ideological polarisation . |
| 19 | ABOUT 2,000 young Sunday footballers intend to rally in Dundee City Square this weekend in protest at council plans more than to triple the cost of pitches and dressing rooms . |
| 20 | Britain doubted whether the UN could do more than to postpone the day when Soviet domination over Korea was established . |
| 21 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 22 | For an instant there was nothing she wanted more than to feel the heat of them on hers . |
| 23 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 24 | Its purpose Augean — no less than to perform an act of reparation for the sins of students everywhere . |
| 25 | Simply expressed , parliamentary democracy and the representation of individual electors by unfettered parliamentary leaders is challenged in favour of party democracy and the representation of collective ( class ) interests where the majority wishes of the party activists outside Parliament in the constituencies are interposed between the parliamentary leaders and the electorate to limit the former and to provide the party programme for choice by the latter . |
| 26 | For those who could do so , to subscribe to the militant slogans of Pravda was not the same as to accept the party line on every issue , still less that of Lenin . |
| 27 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |