Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 2 | I keep going round the painting seeing extra bits that need to be emphasised , or perhaps to blend in too start a line . |
| 3 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 4 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 5 | She walked briskly out of the station , and set off in the direction of Bayswater , stopping every hundred yards or so to put down her dark blue Revelation suitcase ( a Christmas present from her parents ) and change hands . |
| 6 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 8 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 9 | Dip sandwich , both sides , then leave for 30 seconds or so to soak up egg . |
| 10 | The only exception is where it appears to a court that the reporting of the proceedings before it might prejudice the administration of justice in other proceedings imminently pending in another court , or shortly to follow thereafter . |
| 11 | In the Netherlands , nearly a third of the local fungi species are extinct or shortly to become so . |
| 12 | ‘ With his ultimate decision on whether or not to sell entirely dependent on how successfully you cope in his absence . ’ |
| 13 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 14 | The next step is to decide whether or not to go ahead . |
| 15 | Soon she was quite alone , and wondering whether or not to go back and make her way around by the fields . |
| 16 | Leigh Environmental now had six months to lodge an appeal with the Minister of the Environment , who would decide whether or not to set up a Public Enquiry . |
| 17 | I have alerted the Director of Education to the likelihood that a decision on whether or not to take up the school site might need to be taken sooner than originally thought . |
| 18 | In between there are some great dopey male bonding scenes with Pitt and black buddy Calvin Levels ( eg the attempt to decide whether or not to move in with Yvonne ) , plus some not-so-hot episodes with Nick Cave ( crap as usual as platinum rocker Freak Storm ) . |
| 19 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 20 | Finally , there is the economic and social policy context within which older workers come to a decision about whether or not to remain economically active . |
| 21 | You have a reasonable period of time to decide whether or not to give up your job , but it is not easy to forecast what will be regarded as ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 22 | Governments may wish , purely for political reasons , to control various industries ( or not to do so ) . |
| 23 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 24 | All lone parents who claim benefits will be required to use the Agency to establish child support liabilities while non-claimants may choose whether or not to do so . |
| 25 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 26 | Halifax have taken only two points out of the last 18 , and And the club 's directors will decide early next month whether or not to close down following the recent disclosure that Halifax were more than Pounds 100,000 in debt . |
| 27 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 28 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 29 | They may sit around watching their child play but only say something when the child starts to misbehave ; injunctions not to do something or to be careful or not to make so much noise focus on control issues only . |
| 30 | Much of the social life evolves around the patio at Cosmos , where decisions are taken about which taverna to visit for supper , and whether or not to meet later at a bar or disco . |