Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 5 | And I certainly would not be there to confirm or deny it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Rain and Shildon might have been alone , there was no one to see or overhear them . |
| 9 | Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples . |
| 10 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 11 | It aims to detect problems , perhaps by screening , as early as possible and then to treat or cure them . |
| 12 | Had the Government not thought that they could get the Bill passed without the House having a serious attempt to debate or qualify it , those matters could have been discussed with experts . |
| 13 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |
| 14 | This meeting is called by a manager to inform his subordinates or to instruct or to control them . |
| 15 | When you are presenting to high-status people , who have the power to promote or demote you , you can feel justifiably vulnerable and exposed . |
| 16 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 17 | This is unacceptable , man made them and therefore has the right to modify or discard them . |
| 18 | Bush said , however , that he would use his executive discretion to modify or suspend US sanctions when two more of the five conditions were met ; administration officials said that they expected the freeing of political prisoners and the lifting of the state of emergency in Natal to be regarded as adequate moves . |
| 19 | If the structures of knowledge that exist do reflect the structures of the real world , then any attempt to modify or erode them is likely to be unproductive . |
| 20 | Hindus revere nature but never feel any need to marshal or mould it into a design of their own : a banyan tree will almost be encouraged to spread its drooping creepers into the middle of any village market , or to block any backwoods track . |
| 21 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 22 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 23 | Whatever the form of the advice , the Inspectorate make it clear that the teachers are free to accept or reject it . |
| 24 | Endorsement is the process by which all users likely to be affected by an SSR are informed of its existence and permitted to accept or reject it according to their usage of it . |
| 25 | We are called to resist him ( 1 Pet 5:9 ) , not to know or understand him . |
| 26 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 27 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
| 28 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 29 | So , while a statute is needed to authorize the expenditure required to fund the CICS , a statute was not needed to establish or administer it . |
| 30 | If France wanted good relations with Russia his full title ( which he carefully recited ) must be used in all future letters , for it was the duty of friends " rather to augment reciprocally their titles and qualities than to diminish or curtail them " . |