Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is highly unlikely either that a course will be designed that is universally acclaimed as the definitive model for all courses or that any one teacher will find the perfect course that suits the needs of his students , his own personality and his own approach to language teaching , but he can change or adapt it as he sees fit . |
| 2 | One of the basic problems for any government is that the higher the level of taxation , the greater the financial incentive to avoid or evade it . |
| 3 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 4 | They coat the hair with colour and , because they do n't contain peroxide , wo n't dry or damage it . |
| 5 | Their findings would go to reinforce or modify it . |
| 6 | Before we seek authorisation for the production phase , it will be necessary for each nation to restate or modify it 's planned off take and that will be done very firmly on the basis of the studies which er Group Captain Granville White has already d described which will factor in er against our military tasks , which is , y you know we define now fairly clearly , er exactly what aircraft are needed to undertake those tasks in what scenarios and in the future er as you say , there may well be scope for er adding additional aircraft types to that . |
| 7 | The woman had taken her baby home without knowing how to feed or bathe it . |
| 8 | Had the Government not thought that they could get the Bill passed without the House having a serious attempt to debate or qualify it , those matters could have been discussed with experts . |
| 9 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 10 | A major infestation is almost certain to occur at some time or other , and you must then decide how to control or eradicate it . |
| 11 | ‘ The point is , he may be able to prove or disprove it . |
| 12 | The first duty of the conqueror , he wrote , ‘ is to maintain his domination and to assure that it will last ; everything is good which has the effect of consolidating and guaranteeing it , everything is bad that may weaken or compromise it ’ . |
| 13 | They knew of the construction of the sewer , and they ought to have appreciated the possibility of damage to their mains and taken appropriate action to prevent or rectify it . |
| 14 | Either let your hair dry naturally or give it a quick blast with a diffuser/dryer . |
| 15 | Ideally , you should look on such money as a bonus and should save or invest it . |
| 16 | Hence the establishment of the right to enclose land , to sell or rent it , subject only to the ‘ will of the contracting parties ’ : the right to enclose was a blow at the pasturing rights of the Mesta which patently infringed the individual 's right to dispose of his property . |
| 17 | The book [ on Law Reform and the Law Commission ] by J. H. Farrar is inefficiently critical , particularly of Parliament which is making a mess of the law far quicker than any Law Commission can improve or restate it — Scots Law Times . |
| 18 | Sometimes they can be given a lump of clay that is too heavy for them to lift and they will gain new experiences as they try to mould or divide it into pieces of a manageable size . |
| 19 | But it is still true that most members of the professions , accountancy , the law and banking , to whom people intending to start a business might turn for advice on how to constitute or finance it , will propose a company incorporated under the Companies Acts , or perhaps a partnership . |
| 20 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 21 | Some misunderstanding exists at present about what it is , and what it is not , and of the processes that can encourage or suppress it . |
| 22 | Just observing something does n't tell you how to explain or understand it . |
| 23 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
| 24 | Dahrendorf , however , has argued that alienation is irrelevant to empirical social science , ‘ since no amount of empirical research can either confirm or refute it ’ . |
| 25 | This remains a fact no matter how one seeks to explain or excuse it . |
| 26 | Ninety -nine gardeners in every hundred have to put up with the garden they have , facing the way it is , and can not pick and choose or move it around . |
| 27 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 28 | Such theories , he remarks , ‘ are not centrally concerned with literature ; indeed , they may marginalize or abandon it as a category ’ , and he instances their source in such fields as philosophy , psychology , sociology , anthropology , linguistics . |
| 29 | Victoria and Alex learned first never to call this loyalty by its name , never to identify or analyse it , but to live it . |
| 30 | So seeking ‘ the cause ’ of cancer is not the only route to finding drugs which will relieve or cure it . |