Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 2 | Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict . |
| 3 | At the diplomatic level , where the democracy movement of the last decade had always been belittled in the foreign embassy briefings , the delay in normalising relations with post-massacre Beijing was less due to disapproval than to doubt as to the future stability of the regime . |
| 4 | This has to be addressed to the company 's members and to state whether in the auditors ' opinion the annual accounts have been properly prepared in accordance with the Act and , in particular , whether they give a true and fair view . |
| 5 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |