Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] or [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are fitted with halogen bulbs for overall punch , or spots to light specific objects or to highlight . |
| 2 | In an eloquent speech he dwelt on the reluctance of the adult deaf to attend divine service or to receive moral instruction and on the " appalling " lack of religious knowledge amongst the younger generation . |
| 3 | Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) . |
| 4 | The Opposition have made absolutely no commitment to provide free phones or to increase public expenditure on telecommunications infrastructure in any way . |
| 5 | It is very important that a particular report can be found quickly , even after years ; it might be needed to establish some point or to provide evidence in an argument or court case . |
| 6 | ‘ hooligans on housing estates causing disturbances in the common parts of blocks of flats , blockading entrances , throwing things down stairs , banging on doors , peering in at windows , and knocking over dustbins ; groups of youths persistently shouting abuse and obscenities or pestering people waiting to catch public transport or to enter a hall or cinema ; someone turning out the light in a crowded dance hall , in a way likely to cause panic ; rowdy behaviour in the streets late at night which alarms local residents . ’ |
| 7 | Weigh up the pros and cons ; decide if it is better to accept such invitations or to spend the time doing your own thing , perhaps sharing a mutual interest with one friend . |
| 8 | Despite this forthright tone , later parts of the document point out that ‘ the scheme will be structured in a way that patients will always get the drugs they need ’ and that ‘ it will ensure that budgets reflect the costs of patients needing a greater volume of drugs or more expensive drugs … ’ ‘ so that there will be no disincentive to practices to accept such patients or to begin to prescribe expensive medicine to such patients , if there is a clinical need to do so ’ . |
| 9 | However we are currently unable to grant early retirements or to transfer pensions . ’ |
| 10 | The element of the formulation of the rule also leaves open some questions of not only whose statements but what statements are admissible either to establish parliamentary intention or to put such statements in context . |
| 11 | The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail . |
| 12 | With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared . |
| 13 | But even some of the older legislation requires sharpening up to meet modern situations or to respond appropriately to new ‘ indiscretions ’ . |
| 14 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 15 | Courtesy — A business letter is often used to obtain new business or to create goodwill ; therefore every letter should convey genuine sincerity and courtesy . |
| 16 | Other than as the objects of an occasional bout of jungle fever , other than to provide local colour or to lend some touch of verisimilitude or to supply a needed moral gesture , humour , or bit of pathos , blacks made no appearance at all . |
| 17 | Roman law had found difficulty in accommodating dispositions which aimed to benefit third parties or to serve abstract purposes . |
| 18 | The Thatcher approach was to employ small teams to tackle specific problems or to issue a set of proposals , and then wait for the howls of |
| 19 | All the more strange that the advocates of a return to Victorian values should chide trade unions for refusing to forgo or minimise pay rises in order to create more jobs or to contain inflation . |
| 20 | Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant . |
| 21 | That same year there was a school strike in the small town of Września , near Poznań , among Polish pupils who refused to receive religious instruction or to say prayers in German . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the leisurely beginnings and ends of terms , the examination time , unexpected holidays , and festivals , requests for children to parade or sing or help with community work , there are the apparently inevitable absences of teachers : the headmaster to collect salaries , the senior teachers to mark and supervise examinations or attend panels , the married ladies to nurse sick children or to have babies . |
| 23 | Anyone dismissed before then has no recourse to an industrial tribunal , either to claim unfair dismissal or to require the employer to provide written reasons for dismissal . |
| 24 | This , however , is mostly supposition and there is little evidence to support these arguments or to indicate the resource implications of this even if they are valid . |
| 25 | Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing . |
| 26 | The foundation of a company 's power is its control over property , and the claim of the members to be entitled to exercise that power or to delegate it to representatives rests on their rights as owners . |
| 27 | The latter , stripped of their powers to assume parental rights or to demand notice of a child 's removal from ‘ accommodation ’ , must work on the basis of negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 28 | Whilst we recognise that the Government does not want local authorities to use development plan policies to limit change of use rights , we believe the final guidance should indicate the special circumstances in which such constraints may be justified , for example , in order to avoid environmental problems or to sustain the traditional employment base of a particular locality . |
| 29 | The more pervasive a structure becomes in a given context , the more difficult it becomes for speakers and writers to select other structures or to depict events differently . |
| 30 | It was significant that loneliness and low morale made clients particularly difficult to support : ‘ Low social integration and the prospect of residential care decreased morale , while low morale left clients without the heart to play active roles or to fight to stay in their own homes ’ ( Sinclair et al . , |