Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 2 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 3 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 4 | Our understanding is that the Scottish Office brief is far wider than to look only at the promotion of Scotland as a destination . |
| 5 | I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man . |
| 6 | If these turn out to be major then it 's often better to re-scan the picture for the new dimensions than to mess about with the first version . |
| 7 | This certainly overstates the situation , but there is no doubt that party leaders in Parliament like to keep a free ( and vague ) policy hand , and in their speeches and campaigning around election time they are more likely to attack opponents and invoke positive symbols than to get down to the specifics of their own party programmes . |
| 8 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 9 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |
| 10 | She could not find the light switch and stood , her hand on the newel post , deciding whether to go up in the dark . |
| 11 | ICI says a final decision on whether to go ahead with the demerger will be made in February ( when the full-year results for 1992 are announced ) in the light of market conditions . |
| 12 | ‘ If he does n't come , the Disciplinary Committe then has to decide whether to go ahead with the inquiry in his absence , ’ said the Jockey Club 's Sue Williams . |
| 13 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 14 | Leave your telephone number , because the decision whether to go ahead with the visit , or hold another talk , will have to be a late one . |
| 15 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 16 | Ian Woosnam is debating whether to go back to the drawing board and change his putting style for today 's Honda Open in Hamburg . |
| 17 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 18 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 19 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 20 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 21 | ‘ We considered whether to vote again on the issue . |
| 22 | The 348 to 123 vote , a majority of 225 , is likely to provide irresistible pressure on the Cabinet when it decides within the next few weeks whether to press ahead with the necessary legislative changes . |
| 23 | Nutty found both the running and swimming hard , but had no option but to keep up with the boys . |
| 24 | Uncertain whether to knock politely on the kitchen door , or just thrust it open and make a dramatic entry , Leonora dumped her bag on the flagstones and pushed wet rat's-tails of hair back from her face . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Western countries remained divided over whether to intervene militarily in the conflict . |
| 26 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 27 | These are individuals whose behaviour is considered to be so outrageous as to fall completely outside the range of actions based on reasons and causes . |
| 28 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 29 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 30 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |