Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Office 's ‘ bridging ’ scheme , placing mid-career civil servants in company non-executive directorships , was put forward as an ideal means to broaden the skills of women in functional roles or to refresh those of women nearing the end of a career break . |
| 2 | The ILP desire to exert influence on the rest of the Labour movement was tempered by hostility to the Communists and , above all , by an inability to compromise or to sacrifice any of the Party 's independence . |
| 3 | Local authorities are no different in this respect from other large concerns , whether public or private , who must decide whether to provide all the components of their activities within their own organisations or to obtain some from outside suppliers . |
| 4 | Since large serf-owners tended not to live on their estates or to know much about rural conditions , few of the people whom the tsar had charged with thinking about emancipation had any idea of the complexities of the task . |
| 5 | Here , the patterns are ready to view on screen in their original design colours , or to download direct to the console for knitting without making any changes or alterations . |
| 6 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
| 7 | Andermatt too is a place for travellers ' decisions : whether to return north back to Uri , or to choose one of the other three cardinal points of the compass for further travel . |
| 8 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |
| 9 | Rating scales are a subset of questionnaires which invite informants to select a number corresponding to the extent of their response , or to select one of a series of descriptions , usually corresponding to an ordinal scale with a neutral midpoint , to which the investigator can easily assign numbers . |
| 10 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 11 | Or to use another of Mr Airlie 's sayings : ‘ You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar ’ . |
| 12 | He walked along its edge , his lips pursed , stopping every few paces to study a particular knot of fibres or to read some of the tiny lines of symbols that moved ceaselessly in the spaces between the shapes . |
| 13 | In most cases reported the cattle have had access to housing previously occupied by pigs , sometimes several years before , or to land fertilised with pig manure . |
| 14 | Those where there is no tissue loss are considered for primary closure ( joining the edges together ) , while wounds with tissue loss may need grafts , flaps or to have healing by granulation allowed . |
| 15 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 16 | ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick . |
| 17 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 19 | This means that to stand still in terms of health service provision , funding has to increase over and above that for other services . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the flood of statistics is very large ; nothing more can be done here than to indicate some of the most useful summaries available . |
| 21 | In the paragraphs that follow the references to party manifestoes are not intended to do more than to highlight some of the more obvious differences in emphasis . |
| 22 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 23 | And what better way than to render all of those things unfashionable . |
| 24 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 25 | However , it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk . |
| 26 | On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem . |
| 27 | The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open . |
| 28 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 29 | ‘ If Bragad wanted to take Ralarth Rorim , what better way to begin than to get some of his men inside beforehand ? ’ |
| 30 | What better display of character than to overturn 0–2 into 3–2 ? |