Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then goes on to list and classify a lengthy and diverse list : visions , dreams , voices , discussions , parables , speeches , proverbs , rituals , laws , songs , drama , poetry , letters , ciphers , anthologies , history , records and stories , and for each he gives chapter and verse . |
| 2 | One has only to mouth that thought to recognise its absurdity . |
| 3 | If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure . |
| 4 | If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure . |
| 5 | If their application fails , the player has then to decide whether to try for other posts or apply for reinstatement . |
| 6 | Downing Street declines either to list or number the posts directly in the gift of the prime minister . |
| 7 | But the IWC has yet to decide whether to continue or end the moratorium , preferring to ask more questions of the scientific committee regarding the management procedure ( see Nature 358 , 99 ; 1992 ) . |
| 8 | The company has yet to decide whether to offer access via the 64Kbps bearer B-channel or the lower speed 16Kbps packet switched D-channel . |
| 9 | A group of 11 companies has committed to developing products conforming to the joint AT&T Co-Hewlett-Packard Co proposal for 100Mbps Ethernet , despite the fact that the IEEE has yet to decide whether to adopt it as a standard . |
| 10 | What makes her set-up different is that husband Roland is also an accountant with his own practice , and they have developed a symbiotic business relationship that allows both to work and share in organising the family . |
| 11 | Section 3 describes how to maintain and change LIFESPAN processes . |
| 12 | Bob Gledhill outlines how to recognise and maintain quality cutlery without forking out a fortune |
| 13 | He tends not to formulate and face the difficulties that he encounters sufficiently rigorously , and erm to on the whole get away with difficulties by the skilful way in which he writes about them and by his wit . |
| 14 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 15 | It is almost inherent in the nature of the passions and the acts we are concerned with that feeling overcomes or ceases directly to control and regulate action . |
| 16 | The mobility of city life , with its increase in the number and intensity of stimulations , tends inevitably to confuse and demoralize the person . |
| 17 | It is understandable that a civil servant takes longer to negotiate or work out a solution over which he is unenthusiastic , the result being that by the time the work is complete , there is a new minister who is more ready to see the weaknesses of this line of action . |
| 18 | Called Dual Control , it calculates where to lower or raise the plough to get a straight edge on the headland . |
| 19 | Often the houseparent is a married woman whose husband goes out to work but acts as a father to the children in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 20 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 21 | The fourth : the shops are half-empty but everyone finds enough to eat and clothe themselves with . |
| 22 | ‘ It all boils down to supply and demand , ’ he explained . |
| 23 | Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds . |
| 24 | But whereas the Demoiselles is a stylistically disjunctive painting , here each figure seems simply to qualify and reaffirm the properties and existence of her neighbours . |
| 25 | In theory , the Ministry of Education welcomed schools which it did not have to pay for and in which the instructors — student volunteers — confined themselves to teaching adult illiterates how to read and write . |
| 26 | Bub , an army vet , vaguely remembers how to salute and shoot — but he also responds in some physical way to books and Beethoven , learning how to operate the controls of a Walkman ( again , the actor 's contribution ) . |
| 27 | Of course , a contract which lacks any agreement to transfer property ( ownership ) at all , will fall outside the definition , e.g. a contract where one person agrees simply to borrow or hire another person 's goods . |
| 28 | This serves only to confirm and reinforce the illness . |
| 29 | They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state . |
| 30 | It 's a system which sets out to restore and maintain good health by inserting needles into specific points on the surface of your skin . |