Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 2 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 3 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 4 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell was immediately suspicious To get so much sympathy and then to get a handout as soon as she asked for it , was unnerving . |
| 6 | It is increasingly common to dispense with deeds of assignment in respect of endowment insurance policies and simply to have a notice of deposit . |
| 7 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 8 | A number of Japanese independent software vendors were exhibiting at SunWorld show , including developers such as Technology Fukui , a regional company already developing in the computer-integrated manufacturing field and now to offer a building blocks system for a flexible manufacturing control system ( called F-Macs ) for control of incoming and out going shipments , production line control and automatic warehousing — the system will cost upwards of $10,000 once it is realised in March next year . |
| 9 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 10 | As an international loan officer , I learned to forget about security and instead to develop a set of rationales that would make home office feel good about the loan , even though , technically , it was ‘ unsecured ’ . |
| 11 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 12 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 13 | Here the button is pressed once to select an ‘ icon ’ from the screen menu and twice to open a file for that particular piece of software . |
| 14 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |
| 15 | To make a speech , propose a toast , or write a manifesto is to take on a role and also to impose a role on the receivers . |
| 16 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 17 | The Royal Yacht Britannia will be used for part of the tour and also to host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 18 | Stephen called to his son to fetch a rag to stop the petrol and then to get a funnel from for Mr Dodd to decant petrol into a metal can . |
| 19 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 20 | It therefore seemed logical to press a little of every suitable plant in her garden and later to create a design from it that would remind her for many years to come of her treasured garden . |
| 21 | Suger 's historical writings led the monks of his abbey to develop a taste for history and hence to compile a series of chronicles . |
| 22 | It will be appreciated that if the conveyance or transfer is one of sale between the husband and wife as part of the matrimonial settlement , it can be advantageous for the purposes of stamp duty , inheritance tax and land registry fees to recite the amount of the mortgage debt and also to have a valuer 's report . |
| 23 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 24 | The Artisans volunteered to double their subscription to the Club and senior members were asked for a voluntary 50% increase and also to pay a 1s. 0d. a round or a two-guinea single payment and make other donations ! |
| 25 | The lesson Conran has learned is never to make general statements to the press that can be quoted out of context and always to keep a weather eye on the latest fads in the City . |