Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forge 90 will also be available to run High Performance Fortran parallel programs on the SP1 and to help parallelise existing serial Fortran programs . |
| 2 | A U/V Steriliser was connected to the header pool circuit and last year I also added a shop-purchased filter to this to give more filter power and to help polish the water . |
| 3 | Our service staff have also been working hard to ensure the highest standards in difficult times and to help retain our customers . |
| 4 | They began with some exploratory tests to see what effects if any were there to be measured and to help design an optimal experiment-to scale it properly , in the idiom that Fleischmann uses . |
| 5 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 6 | It should be a fair , sensible and practical code , be well publicised — and to help shame misusers and lend muscle to the squashed , intimidated , or left out in the rain , and be posted in each bothy . |
| 7 | There is also a growing need to measure what many think is immeasurable — our consumption of natural resources — and to help evaluate the extent to which business activities are truly sustainable . |
| 8 | Information technology is being used to improve product quality and to help rationalise production systems and resources . |
| 9 | As a result of the first inquiry the Hospital Advisory Service ( now the Health Advisory Service ) was set up in 1969 to visit , assess and criticize hospitals constructively and to help bring about improvements in their general standards . |
| 10 | In its efforts to counteract these difficulties , the RSPB works closely with other organisations to support foreign bird protection societies , to help train their staff , and to help bring birds to people who have previously had no opportunity even to read a bird book . |
| 11 | The measures are designed to improve competitiveness and to help ensure the businesses within Chemicals are in a strong position to take advantage of the eventual upturn in the market . |
| 12 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 13 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 14 | Despite these facts there may be a case for a short-term course of tablets , or the occasional use of a tablet to help us through a particularly difficult situation and to help build confidence . |
| 15 | On June 9 , Moi appealed for 173,000 tonnes of emergency food for 680,000 Kenyans facing starvation after 20 months of drought in North-Eastern , Eastern , Coast and Rift Valley provinces , and to help feed an estimated 260,000 recent refugees from Sudan , Somalia [ see p. 38950 ] and Ethiopia . |
| 16 | We are also determined to raise standards in our inner city schools , to crack down on truancy , and to help prepare young people for the world of work . |
| 17 | And to help tone up problem areas , TV-am 's Lizzie Webb has devised eight special exercises to help . |
| 18 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 19 | To promote enterprise by companies large and small , and to help create more jobs . |
| 20 | Secondly , the policy aims to reduce the amount of absenteeism and poor work performance caused by excess use of alcohol , and to help improve the quality of life for those concerned . |
| 21 | While some training is aimed at specific jobs , some is planned in the hope that jobs will become available and to help make the area more attractive to firms planning to move by having better trained people . |
| 22 | What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ? |
| 23 | Here we examine carbon-bearing and carbon-free granulites under a range of electrolyte saturations , confining pressures , pore pressures and temperatures to assess their contributions to the bulk conductivity of the rock and to help understand the nature of the rocks causing the high-conductivity zones in the lower crust . |
| 24 | All the techniques discussed in this section can be used to find out more about the organisation and to help determine the area for further work , the area for data analysis , database development and information systems development . |
| 25 | They aim to introduce scientists to potential customers in forest states , and to help develop ways of making sustainable economic use of forest reserves . |
| 26 | When Jones made the offer he said he was ‘ attempting to establish an open and cooperative relationship ’ and to help mend the broken fences of the previous day 's rancour . |
| 27 | As a young man he was cursed with a dreadful stammer , and to help combat it he became a club singer , not easy under the best of circumstances . |
| 28 | If you care to help rescue children with disabilities and teenagers who suffer abuse we want you to say yes , and to help get eight hundred million pounds |
| 29 | There are five main ways in which these forecasts are used : for resource allocation in the near future ; to plan longer-term capital expenditure ; to assess planned admission limits for schools ; to aid reorganization ; and to help forecast the future budget for the local authority — both educational and corporate . |
| 30 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |