Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 2 | But , oddly enough , Harriet had never held it against Tom who , after all , could easily have elected to cancel or postpone their plans . |
| 3 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 4 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 5 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |
| 6 | This can be understood to mean that Vietnam is not prepared to renounce or imperil her close ties with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 8 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 9 | It was decided , first , that in actions brought by the Crown to enforce or protect its proprietary or contractual rights , it should be in no different position from the ordinary citizen and so should be required to give an undertaking in the usual way . |
| 10 | The order of one court requesting the court in another country to enforce or recognise its orders is called an order in aid . |
| 11 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 12 | In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , |
| 13 | With little access to trade outlets , early Inuit had neither the power nor the will to over-exploit or destroy their few resources . |
| 14 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 15 | Sabine is not here to confirm or deny their conversation , and neither can she confirm or deny how much of her work went into the Durances . |
| 16 | And I certainly would not be there to confirm or deny it . |
| 17 | ‘ We are under instruction not to confirm or deny anything , ’ she said . |
| 18 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 19 | If you have access to such an instrument and you suspect Hexamita infection , then careful examination of your specimen should provide the evidence you require to confirm or refute your suspicions . |
| 20 | No executions had been carried out since 1984 , and there were currently 287 people in prison waiting for parliament to confirm or commute their death sentences ( mostly handed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 21 | This technique has the advantages that you do n't have to paint or draw anything ; nor is it necessary to tidy up the edges of the wall hanging as this can add to the haphazard effect . |
| 22 | All sites should be protected from damage or development , managed so as to conserve or increase their wildlife value , and monitored . |
| 23 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
| 24 | It is impossible to see or sense anything here except tourism . |
| 25 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 26 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 27 | But Rain and Shildon might have been alone , there was no one to see or overhear them . |
| 28 | Being drunk or stoned can make anyone forget to use condoms , but if the condoms are easy to see or find there is a better chance that you 'll remember to use them . |
| 29 | Domesticated horses , again like , people , can be conditioned to have other needs too , and can learn to like or want something which would be of no interest to a wild horse . |
| 30 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |