Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 2 | However , even the most well-meaning attempts to induce and promote local enterprise may sometimes result in little in terms of quantifiable gains to the community at large . |
| 3 | As Keith Evans rightly reminded us , some attempts to stimulate and support resource-based learning resulted in " magnificently equipped Resource Centres with highly trained stall , from which teachers retreat , their confidence undermined ! " |
| 4 | I know that he appreciates the importance of infrastructure improvements to stimulate and encourage inward investment . |
| 5 | Also , if the government is serious about developing decent employment opportunities for women , the training and educational agencies will have to look to broadening their remits to include and promote non-traditional areas of work for women . |
| 6 | The Longeval Animal Sanctuary rescues and cares for many animals , and also regularly visit inner-city schools taking lambs , goats , piglets , calves , rabbits etc to give the children there the opportunity to see and touch these animals for themselves . |
| 7 | As the essential measure to secure and entrench lasting reform we will introduce fair votes by proportional representation for Parliamentary elections . |
| 8 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 9 | Education in schools , colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties . |
| 10 | Sometime in March ( date to be agreed ) there will be a Woodworker Fellowship visit for a day which will provide another opportunity to meet and discuss individual problems and projects . |
| 11 | Well I kept well I I got on alright with him cos he I were a lot younger and he used to give me sixpence to go and get some ice cream so as I them would be on their own a bit you see . |
| 12 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 13 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 14 | The New Nursery was opened on 26th August this year and has been designed to offer children opportunities to enjoy and develop all types of play and decision-making , and to gain increased independence within a safe and secure environment . |
| 15 | It was not the twelve who fulfilled their Lord 's command to go and teach all nations the good news . |
| 16 | the German Er secondly there there was a golden opportunity for our apprentices in industry to go and see German industry and French industry . |
| 17 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 18 | The third proposes new guidance to consolidate and update existing guidance . |
| 19 | Claudia who was all too aware of what was happening in France — foreign Jews rounded up , her own father hopelessly compromised , labour camps from which none returned — wrote urgently to Fairfax to come and get this man out of jail . |
| 20 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 21 | Displays of three-dimensional materials can give opportunities to handle and explore interesting objects which pupils would not otherwise have the chance to examine , as well as more commonly found ones . |
| 22 | Eventually things got cool enough for the protons and neutrons to fuse and form atomic nuclei ; later still it was possible for electrons to cling to the nuclei , thus creating atoms . |
| 23 | An attempt to catalogue and quantify these hazards in the field at Henfaes was made by Peters ( 1980 ) who included white clover amongst the species that he studied . |
| 24 | Today , however , we make a conscious attempt to identify and measure social needs and to evaluate the services that try to meet them . |
| 25 | From 1899 , the intention of the clergy to assume and maintain absolute control of their schools led a number of them to refuse to appoint members of the Irish National Teachers ' Organization so as to avoid trade union interference . |
| 26 | The £2,000 will provide sufficient funds to buy and train one guide dog . |
| 27 | My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation . |
| 28 | In preparing the financial statements , the directors have assumed that their negotiations with the banks and third parties to restructure and release certain debts and to stabilise the position will be successful . |
| 29 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 30 | Too often regional issues are neglected in an attempt to understand and to moderate urban decline . |