Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an offence to demolish or to alter a listed building unless listed building consent has been obtained . |
| 2 | The conventions were changing , assumptions were changing , though not everybody was to enjoy or to survive the metamorphosis , the plunge , the leap into water or air ; change is painful , transition is painful , and the social world had not yet reached a stage which could have greeted as conventional , precisely , even at a much-mixed , smart , Bohemian-flavoured cosmopolitan New Year 's Eve party , the excessively raised voices of two journalist-historians , once friends and allies and fellow contributors to the current of immortal truth and to the New Statesman , now locked in bitter dispute about that ghastly , trailing decaying albatross-corpse of the Left , Public Ownership and Clause 4 : ‘ You squint-eyed git , you treacherous , turncoat , lying , statistic-faking git , ’ shouted Giles , the man of the Left , who appeared to be losing the argument , his voice rising above the more amiable party hubbub in a shriek of despair , a shriek that summoned to his side Liz Headleand , with Kate Armstrong and Ivan Warner in quick attendance . |
| 3 | 9.3 Covenants relating to adjoining Premises Nothing contained in or implied by this Lease shall give the Tenant the benefit of or the right to enforce or to prevent the release or modification of any covenant agreement or condition entered into by any tenant of the Landlord in respect of any property not comprised in this Lease Tenants have very limited rights to enforce covenants against each other . |
| 4 | Yet there is nothing to support or to disprove the identification . |
| 5 | Your chair needs to support your spine , cushion your bottom and be at a convenient height for writing — but it does not need to be upholstered or to swivel or to have a head/footrest or whatever . |
| 6 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 7 | Before UCAS forms are lodged , any applicant , parent or teacher is very welcome to write or to make an appointment with either the Associate Dean or the Faculty Officer at the Faculty Office in order to resolve any questions or difficulties . |
| 8 | The meeting of Experts in June 1978 discussed a difficult question , raised by the United States , as to whether or not a Central Authority was obliged to prosecute or to defend an appeal against a decision of the judicial authority granting or refusing execution of a Letter . |
| 9 | After all , she was grown-up enough to know that to please a man you needed to listen to him , and in fact it was no hardship at all to listen to Karl ( unlike Georg , who spoke only of the farm ) . |
| 10 | South West engineers were called in to try and to trace the leak in the mains pipe and after identifying it they carried out the repair work on Saturday and Sunday , but while at the scene early on Friday they smelled gas , and the |
| 11 | All journalists face a continual struggle between the need to present a balanced view of the issues and the need to attract and to stimulate an audience . |
| 12 | The outcome of such discussions should be popular decisions and popular demands ; and since in a democracy it is the people , and not the government or parliament , which is sovereign , it is then the business of government to accept and to implement the popular will . |
| 13 | Then he uttered the simple statement of his faith , one which read more tragically , in retrospect , than any other single thing he wrote : ‘ In order to work and to become an artist , one needs love . ’ |
| 14 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 15 | To give enterprises a chance to adjust and to avoid a crunch that would undermine support for further reform , governments might need to start with high tariffs , promising to eliminate them over , say , five years . |
| 16 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 17 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 18 | People become self-important to counteract and to attack the fear that they are insignificant . |
| 19 | To provide guidance and support to enable branches and international groups to flourish and to provide a vital link between individual members at the centre . |
| 20 | Society has to decide how much risk-taking it wishes to encourage and to allow a proper return to risk-taking as an economic cost against accounting profits . |
| 21 | The user must now edit the module header to include all the other modules which the package is to contain and to replace the dummy entries which were added to the header as defaults by LIFESPAN . |
| 22 | Grégoire 's ability to take a clock to pieces and put it together again , to strip down a car engine , to harness a horse and ride it well , to know and to cherish the names and characteristics of plants and of animals — all these abilities meant nothing to Hugo at all . |
| 23 | The Beggar tells him he has done him good already , and asks him not to spurn but to honour the experience of old age , claiming that poverty has shown him God . |
| 24 | To me the mist seemed like a veil of a moslem bride that is used not to hide but to reveal a subtler beauty to the lover . |
| 25 | that he 's wanted to know whether to destroy the negatives and things does he , yes ? |
| 26 | One could use the intent and motive argument to claim that to maintain the standing of the House one should seriously devalue and perhaps scrap early-day motions . |
| 27 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 28 | Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion , the paratroops or the naval infantry — units which are all made up entirely of volunteers . |
| 29 | Both refused to listen or to call the information office . |
| 30 | Tortured by the regime in South Africa , Roche has written a book about it , and now , in the Caribbean , has joined the firm of Sablich 's as a welfare worker , whose job is to define and to publicise the firm 's good intentions toward the community . |