Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury . |
| 2 | One blind person found lack of non-verbal communication a problem , though others felt able to compensate and even viewed blindness as helpful in some situations . |
| 3 | Professionally-based community care is here to stay and is increasingly needed , backed by access to respite and long stay hospice beds and acute ward facilities . |
| 4 | This is by no means to say that the patient is not entitled to receive and indeed invite advice and assistance from others in reaching a decision , particularly from members of the family . |
| 5 | It was an art knowing which stick to choose and where to place emphasis . |
| 6 | Government revenue was such that not only was it possible to sustain and indeed expand expenditure on the national health serve , it was possible to do so without substantial increases in taxation . |
| 7 | With higher marginal tax rates the incentive to evade and not declare income increases , so that the discrepancy between actual and recorded income widens as increases . |
| 8 | Early herbicide treatments provide the best control , because older grass weed seedlings are more difficult to kill and also compromise yield . |
| 9 | The requirements for new skills , changing roles and management styles , the erosion of traditional functional boundaries and the needs for training and staff development will give rise to conflict and accordingly focus attention on the role of the personnel function as a mediator . |
| 10 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 11 | We also talk of ‘ doing research ’ when we investigate the history of a place we intend to visit , looking up information in travel guides and brochures , finding out how best to get there , what to avoid and how to get value for money . |
| 12 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 13 | The instincts to suck and later to eat roughage are often vented on the wood of its stall . |
| 14 | It is problematic trying to consider hospital readmission rates as most hospital computer systems currently in operation are not easy to interrogate and rarely produce information about readmissions on a routine basis . |
| 15 | TWO guitarists aged 19 looking for bassist and drummer to jam and possibly form band with , influences Hendrix , Metallica , Led Zeppelin and Satriani . |
| 16 | In the critical early months of 1943 he was prepared to disappoint and even antagonize resistance leaders in his pursuit of this objective . |
| 17 | This project examines how far the model can be used to explain and possibly forecast car sales in the UK , France , Germany and Belgium . |
| 18 | Those who were too tired to move and still felt cold took themselves off for a hot bath . |
| 19 | These made clear both Stalin 's undoubted contribution to the struggle to achieve and then defend socialism , but also his ‘ flagrant political mistakes ’ for which a ‘ great price ’ had been paid . |
| 20 | Equally , to yawn is to act bored , to admit and even to flaunt kinship with Svidligailov , and the evil-omened word listless ( vyali ) that dogs Stavrogin , though he never uses it himself , corresponds to the other man 's terminal boredom . |
| 21 | He knew when to confront and when to allow evasion . |
| 22 | This has enabled us to construct and continually update probability tables on the acceptability of our terms — we are able to estimate very accurately the number who will leave as we extend our offers . |
| 23 | This evidence can then be used to modify the contract or allow it to terminate and not to offer renewal . |
| 24 | Various people are opposed to this scheme as it will give the youth another area to congregate and possibly cause trouble . |
| 25 | Various people are opposed to this scheme as it will give the youth another area to congregate and possibly cause trouble . |