Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pers pn] " 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 | The principal is required to give his clerk specified minimum training ( or to enable him to receive it from others ) . |
| 3 | Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied smilingly , and did n't need him to wait with her by the lift or to see her safely inside . |
| 7 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 8 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have done nothing — absolutely nothing ! — to compromise your professional integrity , or to lose you the respect of your colleagues . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Speechless for a moment , Ashley could not decide whether to scream , cross her arms protectively over her chest , or to hit him . |
| 15 | Parents can not always be on the spot to point out the sensible course of action , to remind children about the rules or to enforce them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the British government refused to assign its Polaris submarines permanently and unambiguously to Nato , or to include them in any of the current multinational or multilateral ( MLF ) schemes being floated by the Americans . |
| 18 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 19 | You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them . |
| 20 | She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them . |
| 21 | ‘ She threatened to have me killed or to kill me , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 23 | You 've never listened to the things I say , and even when something is an obvious fact , you never quite seem to believe me , or to trust me . |
| 24 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 25 | Within hours of the reports appearing in the press , vets and cat sanctuaries were flooded with requests to have cats destroyed or to find them new homes . |
| 26 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 27 | Do the Labour Party want it banned to reduce smoking or to increase it ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 30 | Because the majority of college lecturers have yet to be convinced that there are better ways of conveying information — e.g. by the use of video or computer — or are too lazy to investigate or to try them . |