Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 2 | Compensation will not be payable if we are forced to cancel or in any way change your holiday due to war , or threat of war , riots , civil commotion , industrial disputes , disaster , terrorist activities , technical or other problems with transportation , closure of airports or seaports , alteration or cancellation of scheduled services or other events outside our control . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , sections of the ruling party have also adopted a strategy of attempting to co-opt or at least pacify the small black middle class . |
| 4 | There were no fiscal incentives for the spenders to economise or for consumers to limit their demands . |
| 5 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 6 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 7 | Leave it to the Shepherd Gallery — long known for daring to go where on one has gone before — to unearth Vickers 's work , which clearly influenced his subway designs . |
| 8 | From the start the new feature film had been saddled with outside obligations ; it had to preach or at least uplift , or if it were borrowing from literature it had to satisfy so many knowledgeable readers . |
| 9 | A few men were willing to forgive or at least forget ; but the women hated her , for by deserting her man she had somehow disgraced every woman , and where the women were still united against her , what man dared help her openly ? |
| 10 | Serious wrongs — unfaithfulness , cruelty of one kind or another — are not easy to confess or to forgive , but any other way of dealing with the past will harm not only the marriage but the two individuals — whether they need to forgive or to be forgiven . |
| 11 | It was rumoured that Frederick had attempted to encourage Alexander to crown or at least support the coronation of his son Henry . |
| 12 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 13 | The maintenance of the right of silence in police station interviews — the Commission 's own research showed that this right is little used and has little effect on the decision of the police whether or not to prosecute or on the outcome of the proceedings . |
| 14 | We accept responsibility for the acts and/or omissions of our employees or agents and suppliers while acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment , agency or contract of supply and we also accept responsibility for any deficiencies in the services we are contractually obliged to provide or for any failure of such services to reach a reasonable standard save , in each case that : |
| 15 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 16 | Clearly it is not possible to rely on this form of public transport for commuting to work or for visits to local towns for access to a range of services . |
| 17 | Walking or cycling to work or to the station instead of using the car , and exercising the dog regularly ( breathing deeply and keeping a good posture as we walk ) , are ways of incorporating exercise into the normal schedule . |
| 18 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 19 | Lord Wilberforce considered ( at pp986 and 987 ) that there were two possible interpretations to the section : The first is to regard it as having a limited effect ; to be directed against persons who transfer assets abroad ; who by means of such transfers avoid tax , and who yet manage when resident in the United Kingdom to obtain or to be in a position to obtain benefits from those assets . |
| 20 | He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination , Katherine particularly . |
| 21 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 22 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 23 | It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat , directed neither to work nor to leisure . |
| 24 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 25 | Deviance arises when stimulation and enjoyment are difficult to obtain except through the fetish . |
| 26 | And the main thrust of our campaign was to try and get the D , to get the D H S S to accept that as an entity , as a tower block , was hard to heat , so that the tenants would automatically get it . |
| 27 | B may refuse to accept that as a repudiation by S. In that case B will be able to sue for damages for non-delivery if on December 1 S does not deliver . |
| 28 | In one sense , the Nonjurors were Jacobites by definition , since they refused to accept that as a result of the Revolution William and Mary were now rightful and lawful rulers instead of James . |
| 29 | It is not so difficult , in these circumstances , to accept that at least one of the pilgrim-tellers should be represented as speaking through an incongruously feigned mouthpiece , in this case strengthening the antifeminist line of the tale by purporting to speak as a woman . |
| 30 | Is the answer not to keep such breeds of dogs , or to accept that in doing so there is going to be a consequence of damage to the environment , albeit localised and perhaps , in terms of our global worries , extremely small ? |