Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below that age , a child may have the competence to consent or withhold consent but it is a matter of judgement to be exercised in each case by the person responsible for carrying out the examination or assessment ( Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] AC 112 ) . |
| 2 | This is clear from the facts of In re D. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Sterilisation ) [ 1976 ] Fam. 185 , where the child concerned had neither the intelligence nor understanding either to consent or refuse . |
| 3 | However , so far as the present case is concerned , this little girl … was only 6 and it would be idle for anyone to suggest that a girl of that age had sufficient understanding and knowledge to decide whether to consent or resist . ’ |
| 4 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 5 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 6 | You 've no idea the miners and , and people that came out onto the road and had nowhere to go or stay and had nothing . |
| 7 | Then she withdrew her will from Fenna , leaving the dragon free to go or come as he would . |
| 8 | Hours lost , days lost , weeks , months … it 's a pity that we did not have a day together to mull & muse … however , 't was lovely to see you , to see you , lovely . |
| 9 | It is a good idea to have a thorough scrub out , though , and if you can arrange to borrow or hire a power washer , the task will be easier . |
| 10 | Of course , a contract which lacks any agreement to transfer property ( ownership ) at all , will fall outside the definition , e.g. a contract where one person agrees simply to borrow or hire another person 's goods . |
| 11 | Whether there is a PSBR or a PSDR , it is clear that the method the government uses to borrow or pay back debt will affect how much the money supply changes . |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to borrow or lend money on a rolling settlement basis we can bundle it in with the service . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Iago is ‘ hardened ’ , as Cruden put it , in his hypocrisy , so that his refusal to repent or explain shows great psychological insight on Shakespeare 's part . |
| 15 | The tribunal or court could well take the view that the business needs to reorganize or terminate practices or indeed to cut costs . |
| 16 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 17 | Those who had come by carriage had dismissed their drivers with instructions not to return until early evening and now they were stranded , having to decide whether to wait or walk . |
| 18 | I like to cook recipes that foolproof , able to wait or take a moment to finish before serving . |
| 19 | She was nineteen and choked by the immensity of her reaction to this man , unable to breathe or stir , and panicked by the conviction that Luke was seeing into her secret self , invading , bent on vandalising and stealing . |
| 20 | The Monster writhes on the horns of a dilemma : to breathe or bellow . |
| 21 | The information contained in this brochure is correct at time of going to press , however , the Management reserves the right to cancel or alter the advertised programme in exceptional circumstances . |
| 22 | Parliament would also retain the ultimate right to cancel or vary a part or the whole of Community law as it applied to the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 24 | But , oddly enough , Harriet had never held it against Tom who , after all , could easily have elected to cancel or postpone their plans . |
| 25 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 26 | The Management reserve the right , without notice , to cancel or amend any of the attractions and special events detailed and determine the prices according to the circumstances . |
| 27 | ‘ But it 's been a complicated situation ; we 've had to cancel or reschedule gigs with Cozy 's band because of Brian 's thing , and there was a further complication … |
| 28 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 29 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 30 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |