Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have unlimited funds or it may have very tight ones ; most fall somewhere in between so you have to think creatively about raising the additional finance to do the job properly . |
| 2 | The incidentals being part of if you want to incorporate some sort of plot sequence or some sort of intrigue erm that 's entirely up to you . |
| 3 | Erm , ampersand is is quite interesting , you all know that symbol , because it 's used in handwriting , although nowadays , it , nowadays you would tend to use something like that I do n't know , what , do you , do you , do you sort of if you want to write and quickly . |
| 4 | Of if you want to separate the picture into two , you could draw a picture representing the land in the south and the land in the north . |
| 5 | It is far more important that the owners of the company , the shareholders , be given the choice of whether they want to invest in , let us say , a bank , an agricultural business , a food business , or a retail chain , than that we should build our business in different fields , unless we can demonstrate a high degree of mutual reinforcement from such an exercise . |
| 6 | Does the witness know how to contact you if they are going to be late ? ( 10 ) Do you do enough to help the witness get to court ; proper notice , instructions , map etc ? ( 11 ) Do you have a system for thanking witnesses regardless of whether they have to give evidence ? ( 12 ) Do you have an explanatory leaflet to give the witness ? |
| 7 | We could address the issue of whether we need to raise capacity just as well next year as this year . |
| 8 | This means that not only do we describe ourselves to ourselves and create identity constructs but we can also face the issue of whether we want to alter those constructs and become another kind of person . |
| 9 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 10 | If you are sexually assaulted in any way , the Rape Crisis Centre ( see Helplist ) will offer confidential support , regardless of whether you want to report the attack or not . |
| 11 | Erm , it it 's a matter of whether you want to spend today and pay later , or whether you want to continue a philosophy is mainly in the majority of Lincolnshire vote , that if you want something , you pay for it . |
| 12 | ‘ We have ways of finding out , and we will cooperate with you as I said , regardless of whether you choose to help us . |
| 13 | She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ’ |
| 14 | He also had to make the more crucial choice of whether he wished to become a muderris or a kadi : at this stage of his career he would , of course , become a kasabat kadi . |
| 15 | What about if you have to write it ? |
| 16 | Something to think about if he had to leave the boy on his own like . |
| 17 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 18 | as if we want to get bloody , can you , I do n't want to do it so much now though cos I 'm not so against everyone |
| 19 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 20 | Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way . |
| 21 | That struck Edward as suspect , as if they wanted to have their cake and eat it too . |
| 22 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 23 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |
| 24 | Plot the two variables in figure 10.2 the other way round from the plot in figure 10.3 , as if one wanted to predict the mortality rate from the chronic sickness rate . |
| 25 | She used passionate verbs such as ‘ adore ’ and ‘ detest ’ , as if she wished to proclaim her readiness to fight for every one of those five strokes , for every one of those five points . |
| 26 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 28 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 29 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 30 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |