Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Government do not appear to be currently giving any commitment to provide funds or even to give British Rail the necessary borrowing authority . |
| 2 | Nowadays , we are well used to this switching back and forth , and cutaways are used not only to hide jump-cuts but also to telescope time by making it possible to remove uninteresting parts of lengthy actions . |
| 3 | To be a Socialist class party is to encourage revolutionaries and therefore to breed reaction , which is Fascism . |
| 4 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 5 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 6 | All of these appointments could be used to help friends and thus to sustain a political interest . |
| 7 | Subordinate classes are granted a degree of power to make meanings , to negotiate meanings and even to reject meanings . |
| 8 | It enables them to give options and also to retreat behind the literal meaning of what is said . |
| 9 | It is reluctant to accommodate G-proteins and thus to bring information in from the outside . |
| 10 | These and other rules are designed ( amongst other things ) to guarantee bank solvency and therefore to protect depositors and indeed to maintain a stable monetary system . |
| 11 | There is a widespread perception in the UK that top management is ever ready to give responsibility to project leaders/managers but seldom to delegate corresponding authority . |
| 12 | Mr. Belville is after to come to town to settle matters and then to go down to her where they are to live as man and wife . |
| 13 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 14 | They do not consist of an abstract duty to maximise profits or otherwise to act in the interests of society . |
| 15 | Not providing money to pay debts or even to buy " essentials " . |
| 16 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 17 | The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary . |
| 18 | At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group . |
| 19 | Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals . |
| 20 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 21 | Therefore , I regret Labour 's stated intention of abolishing all museums charges , because that would remove from museums the opportunity to be flexible about staying open later , to improve services and generally to meet the added requirements of the public . |
| 22 | Unable to visualize plans or even to judge the success of a design from a scale model , Ceauşescu demanded larger and larger mock-ups . |