Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your own college library and local lending and reference libraries house a great deal of this ; you will be able to borrow or refer to the literature in these libraries . |
| 2 | Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance . |
| 3 | For many people this was the last time they were to see or speak to him and they are left with a good memory and a triumphant one . |
| 4 | Each side was therefore unwilling to give ground and ready to support or go to the aid of their colleagues . |
| 5 | Others were diffident , unable to cope or come to terms with their sexuality . |
| 6 | Open Learning would be extremely useful to chemists unable to attend or travel to an institute of higher education . |
| 7 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 8 | The kind of information that the general manager normally receives also affects his or her ability to conceive or to commit to new strategic ideas . |
| 9 | British cinema licences have for most of this century prohibited the exhibition of films which are ‘ likely to encourage or incite to crime ’ , which anticipated the deprave-and-corrupt test of 1959 . |
| 10 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 11 | Could n't they see that he was simply dying for want of a word from Kee , that not seeing her or being able to write or talk to her was killing him , and that nothing else mattered ? |
| 12 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 13 | Many developing nations , with limited resources available with which to adjust or adapt to changes in climate , will have to rely on international assistance even more than they do at present . |
| 14 | An alternative to water in sprays is needed in the tropics where water is often very difficult to obtain or transport to the field ; it evaporates so rapidly that the effectiveness of sprays is further reduced . |
| 15 | She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot . |
| 16 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 17 | He hated bribery because it was the hardest of all expenses to try and explain to Kolchinsky . |
| 18 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 19 | But like , wi with the door Dave 's mum 's sister was rubbing it in to try and say to his nan that we were kicking her out and so she got a bit funny over it ! |
| 20 | As the hysterical media juggernaut pushed Charles and Diana along to the altar , she had to try and come to terms with her own feelings and thoughts about the Prince of Wales . |
| 21 | The Portuguese may have the worst road safety record in Europe , but that 's no reason to try and add to the casualty figures . ’ |
| 22 | For a department within C U and er we 've done this design on it , and come up with a new system , that we want to try and sell to other departments within the company . |
| 23 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 24 | And we always u Everybody used to try and get to 's . |
| 25 | Well somebody sa and they stand facing the wall and they shut their eyes and there 're people at the end and they have to try and get to the other side without the other person seeing them . |
| 26 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 27 | If I 've got a routine I like to try and keep to it , otherwise I get very disorganized and upset . |
| 28 | I stayed there for the duration to try and prove to myself that I was able to do it . |
| 29 | And to , to try and illustrate to you why we focus on particular virulence factors for particular organisms . |
| 30 | The organisation is regarded as a ‘ green field ’ , able and willing both to accept and adapt to a completely changed information systems environment . |