Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the power to suspend or expel them from college . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 4 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some teachers saw them simply as points for discussion and considered themselves free to accept or reject them without prejudice to their professional future in the LEA . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 5 Corps was still under orders not to provoke or resist them by force , for the reasons Macmillan had explained on his visit on 13 May , and on the evening of 14 May Gen McCreery confirmed this in a message to Gen Keightley [ KP 106 ] : agreement confirmed that Maj Dubajic would remain at Kappel with Lt Lochhead of 6 SF ( SOE ) to make arrangements for the hand-over of further 10,000 Croats by 23 May making a total of 13,000 Croats to be repatriated . |
| 9 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 10 | Last night forensic experts were testing the guns to try and link them with crimes in Britain , Europe and America . |
| 11 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 12 | If anything , they pulled together to try and protect her from those very failures you think hurt her so much . ’ |
| 13 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 14 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 15 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 16 | the purpose of this double arrangement is to try and arrange something of advantage to both parties erm |
| 17 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 18 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 19 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 20 | I mean it 's In actual fact the the number of people I 've had in and One thing I should say , if you feel you would like a visit one evening , to the plant , then I 'm more than welcome to try and organize something for you . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea is we are going to try and do something with his hands to see if we can give him some form of grip . ’ |
| 22 | In the end I decided to try and do something about it . |
| 23 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 24 | We ca n't just ignore it erm it is proper planning to try and do something about it . |
| 25 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems a shame not to try and do something for him after he 's sent a letter all that way . ’ |
| 27 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 28 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 29 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 30 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |