Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give reasons or to withhold them ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 4 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 7 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 8 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 9 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 10 | If , for example , the landlord is entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out substantial improvements or to reconstruct it the tenant may be able to defeat a claim to determine his tenancy on the ground of demolition and reconstruction ( Heath v Drown [ 1973 ] AC 498 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But to be all too sure of oneself — of who one is , of what one wants — might easily mean riding for a fall , and heroes in that style are prudently disinclined to flaunt their state of mind or to recommend it to others . |
| 15 | This shot could be used either to begin the movie or to end it . |
| 16 | He had done so four years before , and nothing had happened in the meantime either to abate his ambition or to make him less qualified — in the latter case very much the reverse . |
| 17 | Among the appellants assisted by Hunt was George Wiltshire , " for to find him labour or to relieve him " . |
| 18 | If the matter is left to an incoming Tory Government — God help us all if they are re-elected — the choice will be whether to keep a public coal industry or to close it . |
| 19 | Yet it is easier to sense the swing of history against traditional religion than to measure it . |
| 20 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 21 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 22 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 23 | What better way to taunt the auld enemy than to treat them with such reckless contempt ? |
| 24 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 25 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 26 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 27 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 28 | It is the policy of the Government to encourage our exporters and to congratulate them . |
| 29 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 30 | To get more foxes and to get them distributed more evenly over the country , gorse covers and spinneys were started by hunting landlords in well-chosen spots . |