Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 2 | The 1971 characteristics of elderly people who by 1981 had moved into institutions or to live with younger relatives will be compared with the characteristics of those remaining in their own homes . |
| 3 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 4 | On retirement or death in office ( botanists tend to be long-lived but not quite immortal ) , their book collections were frequently sold off to defray debts or to provide a settlement for their widows . |
| 5 | To give reasons or to withhold them ? |
| 6 | For instance , women may be forced to leave their job for domestic reasons or to follow their partner to a new job . |
| 7 | Some are fitted with halogen bulbs for overall punch , or spots to light specific objects or to highlight . |
| 8 | It is already clear that trusts to hand over objects or to free slaves could be enforced in specie under the auspices of the magistrate whose cognitio was involved . |
| 9 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 12 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 13 | It is an offence under Section 47(2) to do any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market price or value of any investments if the purpose is to create that impression and thereby induce another person to acquire , dispose of , subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights conferred by those investments . |
| 14 | Conversely , the Commission is given wide powers to deal with those who fail to notify mergers or to provide the information demanded of them or who implement mergers in contravention of an obligation to suspend . |
| 15 | This is best obtained by asking interviewees to complete standard forms or to take tests before or between interviews . |
| 16 | The demanding processing requirements imply very fast , high performance computers , probably equipped with special chip sets either to compress and decompress the fast-changing , high volume information flows or to digitise sources of information drawn into the multimedia environment which are not initially in digital form . |
| 17 | to acquire new practical or cognitive skills or to update existing skills . |
| 18 | The nomination of subcontractors , whereby the main contract or the engineer stipulates the name of a subcontractor whom the main contractor must employ , should generally be avoided unless , for example , it is necessary to retain specialists skills or to observe a time constraint . |
| 19 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |
| 20 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 21 | Many people attend churches in order to foster an image of respectability , to make business contacts or to make friends . |
| 22 | The whole thrust of the current strategy whether to increase the number of shareholders or to extend parental choice in education is to strengthen the position of the existing middle class and to bring the ‘ new' technological and service working class within the capitalist net . |
| 23 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 24 | The golfers , four amateurs of handicaps ranging from 13 to 5 and four professionals , were told not to waggle the clubs or to bend the shaft on the ground but just to hit the ball . |
| 25 | It is actually not necessary to add fat to bread or vegetables or to cook with fat in order to obtain enough for good health . |
| 26 | His early predictions of independence should probably not be taken as settled opinions but rather as conversational ploys : he often tried out extreme views on his audience , to test their reactions or to play out scenarios in his own mind . |
| 27 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 28 | to identify the political and economic groups that have an incentive either to promote and support particular prevention policies or to obstruct and oppose them ; |
| 29 | Do you prefer to sandwich your exercise in along with your daily activities or to set aside time exclusively for exercise ? |
| 30 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |