Example sentences of "[adv] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 2 | And so , there 'd be the happy chatter of people as they were working , knowing there was gon na be enough and to spare . |
| 3 | Funny how with all their computers and name-matching , these people never seem to come up with offers of anything one actually wants : Diners Club France has chosen Cardpac , Sema Group Plc 's software package for managing credit cards , to support a ‘ new commercial strategy and to develop its financial and non-financial services ’ in a contract said to be worth between $1.45m and $1.8m : ‘ We will use Cardpac to follow our clients ’ activity and to construct a database segmented by expenses , in order to understand client profiles better and to adapt our offers to their needs , ’ said Rolf Harff , managing director of Diners Club France . |
| 4 | There is also now ample research to show that children whose parents listen to them reading at home tend to read better and to enjoy reading more than other children ( Topping and Wolfendale , 1985 ; see also Sheila Wolfendale 's Primary Schools and Special Needs , in the present series ) . |
| 5 | In order to understand better and to compare offers received , it would be helpful to my clients if you were prepared to discuss the mechanics of your offer price which should be worked assuming a debt free group and thus based on profit before tax and interest . |
| 6 | We are persuading logging companies and governments to manage the logging of rainforests better and to grow their own hardwoods on separate plantations outside the rainforest . |
| 7 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 8 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 9 | Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud . |
| 10 | Ask the Lord to guide their steps daily and to enlarge their understanding of his love . |
| 11 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 12 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 13 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 14 | It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable . |
| 15 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 16 | President Nicéphore Soglo , who was flown to hospital in Paris on March 28 after defeating Mathieu Kérékou in the presidential elections [ see p. 38084 ] , flew home on April 3 to be sworn in and to appoint a provisional government , before returning to Paris for further treatment on April 13 . |
| 17 | Its job will be to consider the responses coming in and to decide the priorities . |
| 18 | If past conflicts can be spirited away , it is tempting for the religious apologist to step in and to paint a more harmonious picture . |
| 19 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 20 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 21 | Whether we know him or not whether we 've never had any dealings with him in the past or not , he is able to bring peace once we allow him to come in and to take control of the situation . |
| 22 | He paused to let the effect sink in and to allow the participants to notice that the machine was not showing the correct time . |
| 23 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 24 | He surely wanted nothing from the wilderness but space to breathe in and to push through . |
| 25 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 26 | group to go in and to spell them so they can talk to individual kids . |
| 27 | On the gybes the aim is not to fall in and to keep clear of others . |
| 28 | So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly . |
| 29 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 30 | The ‘ pay factor ’ was always set unrealistically low as an opening gambit by the Treasury to keep pay expectations down and to put a further squeeze on public services . |