Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 For the reasons I have given , I conclude that if ( but only if ) Lautro did not afford to a person or firm served with an intervention notice in accordance with rule 7.3(12) the opportunity to apply to the board to rescind the notice , and/or to appeal against it , then the lack of such remedies would be unfair and the procedure unlawful .
2 The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription .
3 The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme .
4 It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions .
5 For example , they tried to link training placement to jobs , or to target construction jobs on local people .
6 US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement .
7 Derek Bumstead , supervisor : Failed ‘ adequately or at all to monitor Mr Hemingway 's working practices ’ , or to plan satisfactorily work on weekend when fatal errors made .
8 The task might be to review the progress of a project or to plan a piece of action or to analyse a problem or to decide on the best solution to a problem .
9 This will help her calculate what quantities of tin openers to order , or to plan a promotion campaign at the beginning of February .
10 Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today .
11 To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’
12 I do not want to embarrass anyone or to moralise , but I feel that this is an area in which modern Christians have been caught in the net of secularisation without realising it .
13 I did n't , in fact , comment on this letter and I do n't see it as my job to stand in judgement or to moralise — though I 'll fervently agree it 's sad that a young girl takes such an apparently casual view of life : her own and her unborn baby 's .
14 Commissions in an expanding army might be made available without purchase , either to support the interest of Administration politicians or to stimulate recruiting and sometimes both , but rarely could they serve an opposition politician directly , although the fact that military commissions were not immediately under the control of the Government manager for Scotland permitted some indirect approaches by opposition members and their friends .
15 Whether the particular objective is to provide school leavers with better general training for the labour market or to stimulate the development of more portable skills , it is hoped that government training initiatives , such as the Youth Training Scheme , will provide a catalyst for change .
16 Beverages with concentrations above that in wine ( 10%-12% ) failed to release gastrin or to stimulate acid .
17 A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes .
18 Those who simplify moral judgement to the application of standards would assume that he has either to impose his own code or to accommodate himself to the other .
19 An innkeeper is not bound to supply with reasonable refreshment or to accommodate , any person who can not pay a reasonable sum for these services .
20 But the French had not managed to divert or to accommodate the forces of nationalism .
21 by mineralising the compound only as a cometabolite , which means that the microorganisms require some other organic compounds for growth or to induce formation of the enzymes required for degradation of the target compound ; or
22 Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality .
23 We just did n't even bother to whitewash or to paint the ceiling again .
24 As in the case of a Customer Agreement , there is an exemption dispensing with the need for a signed copy from a private customer ordinarily resident outside the UK where the firm believes on reasonable grounds that he does not wish to receive it or to consent in writing .
25 It was a breach of the Code to falsely claim that criminal proceedings could be brought for non-payment , or to compel anyone to sign documents which allowed repossession of goods .
26 Actions are proceedings where the object is to obtain relief against any person or to compel any person to do or abstain from doing any act ( Ord 3 , r 1 ) .
27 The history of the attempts to prevent cracks spreading or to evade the consequences , is almost the history of engineering .
28 Under the first three Edwards when the government was located in York in order to conduct the war against the Scots — or to evade political constraints at Westminster — the archbishop of York 's household became an important source of royal clerks , especially during Melton 's tenure of the see ( 1316–40 ) ; these Yorkshire clerks dominated the chancery of Edward II and were also influential in the exchequer and wardrobe .
29 If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler .
30 The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses .
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