Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now the responsibility of the person working on the DC to decide whether to continue with the DC or to abort it . |
| 2 | It will seem strange to them that the House has not been given the opportunity to hear a statement on the matter , or to debate it . |
| 3 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 4 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 5 | If a person wishes to give up his physical integrity in certain circumstances , or to risk it for the sake of sport or excitement , should the criminal law allow the consent to negative what would otherwise be a crime ? |
| 6 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 7 | Others attempted to alter it , or to enforce it when land was left by the will to the children alone , rather than as more usually to the widow or the widow and children jointly . |
| 8 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 9 | Do the Labour Party want it banned to reduce smoking or to increase it ? |
| 10 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 11 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 12 | I am afflicted by that ambiguous unease which is produced by the prospect of starting some unwelcome task — a restless desire either to drink water or to pass it . |
| 13 | Thus to assert " Some living creatures are men " , or to phrase it in a " canonical " form , " For some x , x is both a living creature and a man " , is equivalent to the denial that the inference from the proposition of the form " x is a living creature " to the proposition of the form " x is not a man " is valid . |
| 14 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 15 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |
| 16 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 17 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 18 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 19 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath , to save life or to destroy it ( Mark 3:4 ; Luke 14:3 ) . |
| 20 | There appears to be no other solution than either to conform to the system or to destroy it . |
| 21 | If you suffer from its effects , you need to know why it happens and what you can do to reduce its impact … or to eliminate it altogether . |
| 22 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 23 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 24 | We choose to be attractive , or dowdy , to enhance what nature has given us or to play it down ; we can dress in a way that we feel accords with our essential character or choose to create a fantasy image which bears little resemblance to the personality . |
| 25 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 26 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 27 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 28 | This means that it will be impossible to grow it as part of the decoration , or to expect it to be self-sustaining . |
| 29 | Either they dispute the sceptic 's right to assert the conclusion , or to assert it as a conclusion ; or they suggest directly that the conclusion can not be true , and that hence they are excused from considering any suggested reason for believing it . |
| 30 | Or to express it in more popular terms : let us assume that we had a complete proportionality in every branch of production , in the sense of their unilateral connection in one direction : from means of production to means of consumption … |