Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb infin] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility . |
| 2 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 3 | PROPERTY group Brixton Estates today called on shareholders for £100.7m to help buy and develop land as the market picks up . |
| 4 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds launched the appeal to help buy and manage the 625acre island . |
| 5 | All employees are encouraged to help identify and meet their job-related development needs . |
| 6 | the foundation of ‘ a small multi-disciplinary central policy review staff in the Cabinet Office ’ to help formulate and sustain a clearer overall strategy for the administration as a whole , for ‘ governments are always at the same risk of losing sight of the need to consider the totality of their current policies in relation to their longer-term objectives ’ . |
| 7 | Now , like all my other gadgets , it is a real friend and I reach for it several times a week to help ease and speed up specific tasks . |
| 8 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 9 | Having the opportunity to do some work from home is of great assistance providing me with extra flexibility to help balance and organise my professional and domestic commitments . ’ |
| 10 | Those four orientations can usefully be employed to help understand and explain attitudes not just toward political opposition in Britain but to the political culture as a whole . |
| 11 | Good relations with the community are one of the most important prerequisites to the successful discharge of a policeman 's duty and it is incumbent upon all members to avail of every opportunity to help reconcile and heal the visions in the community . |
| 12 | The aim is to mobilise academic communities in the Third World to help create and set up small-scale chemical industries . |
| 13 | The Pro-Style collection has been carefully designed to help create and control all styles on all hair types . |
| 14 | There was only a nurse to help untie and unbutton the morning 's fastenings before she undressed and climbed into a bed in the long , crowded dormitory . |
| 15 | The tutor 's role will be to help clarify and develop these activities . |
| 16 | The UCC 's Division of Communication meets yearly and feeds the major issues and needs to Kristine who then works with committees to help educate and work alongside congregations . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying getting all dressed solves the problem , but as bank managers are human , it does make 'em that much more willing to help try and solve it . |
| 18 | CAT stands for cysteic acid treatment , a type of protein to help repair and protect damaged hair . |
| 19 | But for the whole country to flourish , the richer regions must yield all they could spare to help feed and develop the poorer ; and the manpower , too , must be deployed where it was needed to defend the vulnerable harbours and pirate bases of the north and the west , with all the consequent problems of travel in that wild land of mountain and river . |
| 20 | Tendring District Council hopes to declare open land at The Naze at Walton a local nature reserve , which would enable it to seek by-laws to help manage and protect the site 's wildlife . |
| 21 | There are several accepted techniques that may be used successfully to help manage and develop infant behaviour . |
| 22 | An in-house bid support unit is being set up in Financial Management Services Branch , to help support and train people in the necessary skills to compete effectively with external contractors . |
| 23 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 24 | The USA was to contribute US$25,000,000 ; funding both for the new science centre , and for help in moving and storing nuclear warheads safely , would come out of a US$400,000,000 fund approved by Congress in 1991 to help dismantle and remove Soviet nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | An alternative to this view is that corporate managers use their expertise to help define and implement the broad purpose of the organization , which is assumed to be that of furthering the public interest . |
| 26 | plus I can use , to do bring and buy |
| 27 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 28 | It would be wonderful to let go and throw the teapot across the room , and then the milk jug and then the sugar — lump by lump — at the family Hulsby and at Mitzi . |
| 29 | Then they would n't find me , and I could plan my life and find a job and a flat and go home in six months ' time having proved I 'm adult and they 'll have to let go and let me do what I absolutely , passionately want to do with my life . |
| 30 | Some have learned to let go and not to dwell on what simply can not be changed . |