Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 2 | Mr. Whitaker relied upon the wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 , which says that a party is liable in respect of any damage , and so potentially in the position of being able to claim or having to make contribution , ‘ whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | It will also be unlawful to seek to give effect to , to enforce or purport to enforce restrictions in an unregistered agreement . |
| 4 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 5 | In 1961 , while working as anaesthetics research registrar at the Westminster Hospital , Manley designed a machine to monitor or assist breathing during anaesthesia and other forms of unconsciousness . |
| 6 | The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record . |
| 7 | 13.1 does not warrant that the Licensed Software will be error-free but if any copy of the Licensed Software is demonstrated to within 90 ( ninety ) days from the date of delivery to the end user to contain or have contained an error or malfunction , shall use all reasonable endeavours to correct such error or malfunction , or , as its option , to replace such copy of the Licensed Software free of charge , provided that : |
| 8 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 9 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 10 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 11 | The two ministers also agreed to take steps to try and prevent fighting between rival Tamil militias . |
| 12 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 13 | So he er he was most upset was poor Ben so I did explain to him that what he had to do with policemen if they were n't feeling too good was to try and avoid saying things er quite as straightforwardly as that . |
| 14 | I mean , we do look for things on the papers to try and justify giving people marks , you know , we 're not sort of out to fail you . |
| 15 | So we 're going to try and start to change all that now . |
| 16 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 17 | You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve . |
| 18 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 19 | And er when I left , about seventy two , they were still every year they come to try and get rid of this cost of living , but we did er er concede that we 'd only move annually . |
| 20 | tend to try and get rid of the T V because you do n't want the distraction in the background . |
| 21 | I would advise Tarazets if you want to try and get rid of it . |
| 22 | What we try do and is actually sort of focus in on the branches so that so , to try and get try and get all the strains together . |
| 23 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 24 | And I 've got to try and get to work , get home , get my jobs done and get these cleaned as well I do n't know how I 'm bloody gon na do it all ! |
| 25 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 26 | ‘ We have always said if we are going to be successful you have just got to try and keep winning and not worry about other results . ’ |
| 27 | Er , perhaps the whole project could also be attributed , mainly I think , to Freud 's desire to try and keep open the er , the er , analytic publishing house , which he founded in and which er , basically was kept together financially from the er , forwarded , forwarded er , royalties which Bullett sent from America . |
| 28 | so I 'll just have to try and remember to bring an electric drill up an see what I can do but it 's all working . |
| 29 | If yo I hope you , I suppose you could have a whole course in psycho-history , if you really put into it enough , but for just one class , I thought it was too much to ask students to attend , to try and have to get into psycho-history , so I have n't erm , done very much of it , and this , my excuse here really was , well Freud did write a book called Woodrow Wilson . |
| 30 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |