Example sentences of "and [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 2 | He knew it would be useless to try and hinder this , she would be fidgety and fretful if there were dirty clothes about . |
| 3 | Such assessments may help to identify supports which can sustain and enhance this basic capacity of an elder . |
| 4 | Within this self are various drives and motivations , the most important of which serve to maintain and enhance this image . |
| 5 | And you 've got to try and relate this back to the areas as we have now as we now understand them . |
| 6 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 7 | Yes , but I do n't think we should try and make this happen . |
| 8 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 9 | The employee may then resign and treat this as dismissal . |
| 10 | In claiming to diagnose and treat this illness doctors can do more harm than good . |
| 11 | In order to monitor and facilitate this process , the Council set up a Further Education Board in 1979 which , among other things , produced a set of guidelines , which has been formally approved by the Council , for colleges submitting courses for validation . |
| 12 | To try and answer this question , it is necessary to look in more detail at the anatomy of the current slump in the housing market and assess why it has been so much more severe than previous downturns . |
| 13 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 14 | The dual purposes of this chapter are to describe and explain this major division in the distribution of resources in old age . |
| 15 | One could try and explain this as follows : subjects perceived an increase in k as necessitating an increase in output since the opportunities for using output from other periods to increase sales this period had been reduced by the increase in the storage cost ; accordingly , one should produce more now in case the price this period turned out to be a high one . |
| 16 | The aim is to investigate and explain this shift using the particular example of the English relation to Jamaica . |
| 17 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
| 18 | But by the late first century , a patriarchal family-oriented Christianity began to counteract and repress this anti-familial and egalitarian construction of celibacy . |
| 19 | Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it . |
| 20 | We may compare and contrast this with reactions in the USA in 1989 to requests for funding of research into fusion following the announcements from Utah . |
| 21 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 22 | When one attempts to describe and discuss this elusive concept of community care , one is immediately beset by the range and variety of the situations in which old people find themselves , and of the provision which is made by formal and informal carers in different areas . |
| 23 | If you would like me to come and discuss this further , please telephone me during office hours at this number ( ) or at home on . |
| 24 | We shall qualify and discuss this finding further in the concluding section , but let us first look at some comparative static tests . |
| 25 | ‘ I think you and I should draw aside and discuss this matter , Mr Magistrate . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 27 | For his performance of ‘ But who may abide ’ alone I would go out and buy this Messiah even if the rest were trash . |
| 28 | Are n't you tempted to try and buy this house for yourself ? ’ |
| 29 | Very rich flora here includes fairyflax , viper 's bugloss , autumnal hawkbit , sand sedge , pyramidal orchid and the marsh orchids which create a truly magnificent display in June , when the wild flower enthusiasts and others flock to witness and photograph this rare pictorial scene . |
| 30 | ‘ We all agreed that we should try and commemorate this event , ’ he said . |