Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 2 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 3 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 4 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
| 5 | Your right to use your ex-husband 's contributions to improve or provide you with a pension depends on your age and/or whether you remarry before the age of 60 . |
| 6 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 7 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 8 | We must not disable or marginalise them in a society that increasingly seems interested only in the successful . |
| 9 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 10 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 11 | Such theories , he remarks , ‘ are not centrally concerned with literature ; indeed , they may marginalize or abandon it as a category ’ , and he instances their source in such fields as philosophy , psychology , sociology , anthropology , linguistics . |
| 12 | The general law of confidential information would impose a duty to the donors of information not to use or disclose it beyond the purposes for which it is given without consent of the donors . |
| 13 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 14 | It is impossible to force or encourage someone into a different sexuality from that which pertains to them . ' |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The blastocyst will now implant or embed itself in the endometrium , losing its membrane . |
| 17 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 18 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 19 | Music had been important to her and the shelves held a catholic collection of records with which he could refresh or console himself during the two weeks ' holiday . |
| 20 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 21 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |
| 22 | But we do n't need or love you as an organ gone sour that stinks in the wind . |
| 23 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 24 | From the seller 's point of view , rather than expose himself to the vagaries of litigation , and the need to negotiate with each buyer as to exactly what remedies are appropriate in each case , it is preferable to set out a specific and detailed procedure which deals with the remedying of defects . |
| 25 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 27 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 28 | Of course , you may prefer to choose outside alliances rather than restrict yourself to the family , but in times of hardship the family may be more dependable . |
| 29 | It is important that you imagine the secret , rather than steal it from a face you already know . |
| 30 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |