Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your own college library and local lending and reference libraries house a great deal of this ; you will be able to borrow or refer to the literature in these libraries . |
| 2 | Advertise the requirements of clients and contacts who may wish to acquire or sell through the NEWSFLASH system . |
| 3 | Presumably they would be unable to burrow or hide from the Sun like small mammals . |
| 4 | 1805 The stent includes " The Sum allow 'd Mrs. MacMillan , Professed Midwife , for her encouragement to attend & remain in the Island for this year . |
| 5 | ‘ Fans demand the right to sit or stand in a safe ground . ’ |
| 6 | Each side was therefore unwilling to give ground and ready to support or go to the aid of their colleagues . |
| 7 | During his career , the Master of Stair showed himself to be willing and able to flow or turn with the prevailing political tide , changing sides as it suited his purpose or ambition . |
| 8 | Open Learning would be extremely useful to chemists unable to attend or travel to an institute of higher education . |
| 9 | If the rider 's weight is in front of the horse 's , he may cause the horse to fall or stop in the above instances . |
| 10 | The task does not require detailed syntactic processing , simply to know where to pause ( the major syntactic boundaries ) , which words to stress ( distinguishing content and function words ) and whether the sentence requires the pitch to fall or rise at the end ( is it a yes-no question ? ) . |
| 11 | Asked to agree or disagree with the statement : ‘ As Darlington 's MP Michael Fallon has served very well ’ , some 47pc either agreed or agreed strongly . |
| 12 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 13 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 14 | If the acquiring company refuses to provide , or is incapable of providing , clear instructions , if it refuses to accept and/or pay for the equipment or software , if it tampers with the programs , misuses them and allows employees to copy them freely , the supplier will need to take action . |
| 15 | Although not an exact science , it does enable banks to give countries some sort of credit rating and , from this , bank lending officers can make a decision on whether to grant or participate in a loan . |
| 16 | It may help , with the older child , to write or type out the house rules ( the ‘ standing orders ’ ) and post them up in the kitchen or elsewhere . |
| 17 | Some school pupils may , however , prefer to visit the Office , in which case they are invited to write or telephone for an appointment ( see section ‘ Addresses for Enquiries ’ ) . |
| 18 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 19 | In contemporary times , the cultural field of these symbol-producing middle classes undergoes such expansion , such ‘ mass-ification ’ , that it begins to engulf or implode into the more general social field itself . |
| 20 | OLDHAM have placed Paul Round , their second-row forward , on the transfer list for £95,000 , claiming he is in breach of contract for refusing to train or play for the club , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 21 | Since they held Jordanian passports , it followed that those wishing to work or travel outside the West Bank had to pass over the bridge . |
| 22 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 23 | For a start his mother had always taught him that it was a sin to work or play on the Sabbath . |
| 24 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 25 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 26 | The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar . |
| 27 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 28 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 29 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 30 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |