Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To summarize : the existing English law classifies as murder those killings where there was an intent to kill or an intent to cause grievous bodily harm . |
| 2 | The practice of the present Auditor is to accept that a Tender lodged one week before a Proof is good in relation to the expenses of the Proof itself . |
| 3 | ‘ First , are we to accept that a man waded through water up to his neck to tie a noose to hang himself ? |
| 4 | If we add to these the possibility that juries sometimes acquit notwithstanding convincing evidence of guilt , we have to accept that an acquittal does not indicate that the police were wrong to conclude that the accused was guilty . |
| 5 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 6 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 7 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 8 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 9 | To establish that a vehicle has been stolen the Police must have a record of its reg no . |
| 10 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 11 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 12 | Cooper leaped out and opened the bonnet , to discover that a round had penetrated the cylinder block . |
| 13 | It is true that to discover that an object has a particular fractal dimension D is a valuable addition to knowledge and replaces earlier imprecise characterisations such as ‘ spotty ’ , ‘ stringy ’ or ‘ lumpy ’ . |
| 14 | It is therefore possible , in theory at least , for a court to find that a trader has complied with the code but that such compliance nevertheless involved giving a misleading indication . |
| 15 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 16 | The word ‘ ransom ’ seems to indicate that a price had to be paid to God in order that he would free people from their sins . |
| 17 | As with any accountability procedure it is insufficient just to indicate that a failure has occurred ; information must be forthcoming on how to improve educational practice . |
| 18 | The next moment , the railway lines began to shake and a train came screaming out of the tunnel . |
| 19 | The aim of this study was to establish if a relationship exists between the pH profile in the oesophagus and stomach and the development of complications in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus . |
| 20 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 21 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 22 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 23 | A separate Form HN1 for each centre is essential because SCOTVEC requires to know whether a centre has the approval of the Scottish Education Department and , if appropriate , the Regional or Islands Council concerned . |
| 24 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 25 | GC analysis distinguishes between solesterol ( plants ) and cholesterol ( animals ) to indicate whether a vessel has been used to prepare vegetables or meat . |
| 26 | To find whether a case has been proved or not . |
| 27 | If a search is to be conducted to find whether a pin has been successfully entered into a hole in a block then non-intersection , but possibly touching , is sought . |
| 28 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 29 | I was prompted to write when a customer sat on checkout ten following a dizzy spell . |
| 30 | During filming in Spain , there had already been a hint of what was to come when a journalist heard about this ‘ controversial ’ picture being made and managed to steal a script from the set , escaping by throwing beer glasses at cast and crew . |