Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 . The other ideal , which I have n't got round to doing would be to try and appoint somebody on a short term basis .
2 The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors .
3 Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal .
4 the purpose of this double arrangement is to try and arrange something of advantage to both parties erm
5 They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor .
6 One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above .
7 It is the board which has the final responsibility for strategic plans and actions while the role of the corporate planning department is to advise and assist it in its decisions .
8 Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object .
9 Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee .
10 Which would then expel the market traders and I think the i well the ploy was to try and get them into some of the er the vacant lots in within the Ellesmere centre .
11 Either he could cling to that myth of the national leader , in which case the logical step was to resign and hold himself in reserve for another national crisis .
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