Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] to " 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 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 3 | NIGEL BENN 's arrival on the world championship stage may have to be delayed or diverted to another country . |
| 4 | The Middle East Economic Digest of March 1 reported that total foreign aid received or pledged to Jordan since the onset of the crisis in August stood at US$1,150 million . |
| 5 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 6 | Its value remains constant until it is assigned or input to . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the policy formation process is a largely uncontrolled one : on the whole , the government decides which groups it will consult or listen to and which it will ignore ; and empirical evidence shows what one would intuitively expect , namely that some groups are in a much better position to influence government than others . |
| 8 | Regulation 3B(1) requires that a wasted costs order ‘ may provide for the whole or any part of the wasted costs to be disallowed or ordered to be paid and the court shall specify the amount of such costs . ’ |
| 9 | People did n't try and score points off each other — contributions were acknowledged and applauded , rather than criticized or tested to destruction . |
| 10 | New contractual rules , and any changes in those rules , should be communicated or published to the membership to ensure that they are binding . |
| 11 | Hard-bitten journalists hot on the heels of a sensational story had flown or sailed to Orkney by any means they could , as the news broke . |
| 12 | Section 1 covers all forms of spying making it an offence if any person , for purposes prejudicial to the interests of the state : ( a ) approaches , inspects … enters any prohibited place ; or ( b ) makes any sketch , plan , model or note which … might be useful to the enemy : or ( c ) obtains or communicates to any other person any information … calculated or intended to be , or which might be useful to the enemy . |
| 13 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 14 | Make sure they are treated with a wood preservative before nailing or screwing to the frame . |
| 15 | If the Vendors also going to warrant the accuracy of all disclosures , care should be exercised before suggesting or agreeing to this compromise . |
| 16 | The 100MHz DX2 will need a 50MHz motherboard , so Atomstyle 's 50MHz unit might be just the thing to upgrade a little further down the road if you 're a real speed freak , but I have the sneaking suspicion that you wo n't either want or need to . |
| 17 | When you have reached the lees , leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side . |
| 18 | The radical translator is faced with the task of writing such a manual on whatever evidence he can glean ; roughly , on the evidence of sentences uttered or assented to by the ‘ natives ’ and the circumstances of those utterances and assents . |
| 19 | Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance . |
| 20 | For many people this was the last time they were to see or speak to him and they are left with a good memory and a triumphant one . |
| 21 | These included conciliatory actions such as showing concern for , comforting , helping or apologizing to the other . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors . |
| 23 | The acquirer will want to be sure that grants will not be withdrawn or have to be repaid . |
| 24 | My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries . |
| 25 | If that were so , no one would ever eat or drink to excess . |
| 26 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 27 | Each side was therefore unwilling to give ground and ready to support or go to the aid of their colleagues . |
| 28 | Others were diffident , unable to cope or come to terms with their sexuality . |
| 29 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 30 | Unless there are other effective ways in which the managers of the public company are constrained , it would seem that the power of corporate management threatens liberalism 's ideal that all power should be limited or subjected to checks . |