Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of tax paid decreases with increases in income : or to put it the other way round — the proportion of tax paid increases at lower levels of income compared with higher levels . |
| 2 | The difference which justifies the labels is the period to maturity of the debts , or to put it the other way round , the length of time for which the funds are borrowed . |
| 3 | But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ? |
| 4 | Yes , that 's right , or to put it the other way round , Sarah , whenever you start speech , whenever you start writing down what the wor the words somebody actually says , Louisa , Yvette , concentrate hard you always use a capital letter . |
| 5 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 6 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 8 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 9 | it is generally best to quote the nearest authority first and to allot it the most space , the other cases can be brought more casually into the discussion , as you have time . |
| 10 | Now , before speaking to that person , whether your boss or partner , ask your mentor to inspire you and to tell you the right time , to choose the right place and to give you the right words and the correct approach — and to help the other party accept what you have to say . |
| 11 | Monitor evaluator to actually check and to give you the pessimistic side of everything to break everything down why it wo n't work why this should be done why that should be done instead . |
| 12 | Not long ago geographers were wont to divide it into its most impressive component bodies , and to call them the Seven Seas . |
| 13 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 14 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 15 | Maurin gave a slight shake of the head as if to dismiss what the old woman was saying . |
| 16 | Now , before speaking to that person , whether your boss or partner , ask your mentor to inspire you and to tell you the right time , to choose the right place and to give you the right words and the correct approach — and to help the other party accept what you have to say . |
| 17 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff . |
| 19 | And to warn him the long knives were out . |
| 20 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 21 | Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself . |