Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As discussed earlier , this requires schools to prepare pupils for the ‘ experiences and opportunities of adult life ’ and to promote their spiritual , moral , cultural , mental and physical development . |
| 2 | The aims of this project are to document those employee development strategies where they exist ; and to promote their articulation , where they do not . |
| 3 | Designed to preserve regional languages and to promote their use in education , government , administration , the courts , the media and cultural activities , the convention defined a minority language as one " traditionally spoken " by a group of people " numerically inferior " within the population of any state . |
| 4 | I would hope that you would see beyond that , and issues like it , the primary claims of Christ in his Church , to love him and to promote him as Lord of the Church . |
| 5 | And perhaps most fundamental of all , we have to try to live and teach according to our ideals , and to promote them , whilst at the same time trying to make a good career within a system that seems at many points to be based on quite antagonistic values . |
| 6 | This evidence of strength used by a small country for peaceful purposes and to promote its own self-sufficiency would , he warned , undermine the power of " imperialism " and lay Libya open to attack , especially by the United States . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm here for the Expo and to promote my hotels ; and you ? ’ |
| 8 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 9 | She had an eye for talent which they respected , she knew how to pick her designers , and could be relied on to spot a trend developing and to promote it . |
| 10 | For example , the police have powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to enter premises and to search them . |
| 11 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |
| 13 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 14 | Germany 's position on the developmental ‘ gap ’ between East and West Europe , between the feudal and industrial worlds , meant that Germany was subject to fear of Western competition and envy of Western colonial markets ; the proximity of poorly developed lands to the East gave Germany the opportunity to rectify its lack of colonial holdings and to sink its internal problems in external conquest . |
| 15 | Encouraging a manager to use and to enrich his or her own personal resources of belief and experience is not often a part of management training . |
| 16 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 17 | Felicity was to take up dancing as a hobby , not as a profession ; she was to learn to be a good bridge player and to wear her clothes well . |
| 18 | It was this that led testators to value them and to confirm their wills in trust form . |
| 19 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 20 | It is open to public inspection ; as described above an official certificate may be obtained by application on Form 96 to confirm the land you are buying is not already registered ; and to confirm there 's no caution or priority notice against first registration registered against it . |
| 21 | Nine two , you have a paper from the , which is a copy of the paper th , that the director of financial services submitted to the magistrate 's court committee management board , a response from the magistrate 's courts management board for the county council erm , I will move to note the response of the magistrate 's courts committee and to confirm our previous recommendation to the county council regarding this part of the policy resources committee budget . |
| 22 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 23 | The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services . |
| 24 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |
| 25 | Oxford English primary materials generate high levels of motivation and involvement by inviting children to participate in activities designed to appeal to youngsters and to stimulate their ever-inquisitive minds . |
| 26 | And to stimulate their observation we must give them suitable subjects , within their personal experience — and we must see that they get the experience of looking and observing the visual world around them . |
| 27 | This is Dr G 's dilemma : that although he tries to inculcate students with a sense of the beauty and joy of the subject , and to stimulate their minds , they often refuse to think , or to be critical and regard physics in an entirely instrumental way , as a degree to be gained , which will enable them to do something ‘ useful ’ , namely defence research . |
| 28 | I want to offer them light , colour , romance , and to stimulate their imaginations . |
| 29 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 30 | As a result , their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object , but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him , to exploit his capacity for work without compensation , to use him sexually without his consent , to seize his possessions , to humiliate him , to cause him pain , to torture and to kill him . |