Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their bodies are streamlined for maximum efficiency in moving through water , and they have evolved a highly sophisticated sonar system to communicate and receive information through water and over long distances . |
| 2 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 3 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 4 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 5 | Are we able to relate and apply faith to life without suppressing questions and without unnerving our security ? |
| 6 | You have to train and prepare day after day . |
| 7 | Under the provisions of the university decree governing the post , the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography is required ‘ to lecture and give instruction in Geography ’ . |
| 8 | From 1946 , for example , New Town Development Corporations were given extensive powers to acquire and develop land as part of the national new-town programme . |
| 9 | To promote and facilitate discussion at school level about the philosophy of the Catholic school ( using my experiences working for the Queensland Catholic Education Commission as a stimulus . ) |
| 10 | He continued to paint and write poetry from time to time but he was now a professional and energetic film director , turning out twenty documentaries during the next eleven years . |
| 11 | Social workers and chaplains , with a hospital office , also offer opportunities for a few patients to weep and express distress in privacy , in a sympathetic atmosphere . |
| 12 | A pilot project in Zambezia province aims to decentralize and integrate management of donor and provincial funds . |
| 13 | Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population . |
| 14 | ‘ The first stage must be to strengthen and safeguard freedom of speech and expression by a Freedom of Information Act and by entrenching them in a Bill of Rights . ’ |
| 15 | Learners will attend to form and make use of translation anyway because the learning process requires them to do so . |
| 16 | It 's important for anyone with arthritis to try to retain and improve mobility through exercise and movement . |
| 17 | a Napier student formed part of the decision-making team of the Northern Britain Network , a network designed to share and disseminate information about student activities in the UK from Sheffield northwards ; and |
| 18 | WordPerfect for has many powerful macro commands , including the ability to read and make use of system information . |
| 19 | Background Adoption has become a popular solution to the longterm needs of certain children in care , including older children , and Social Services Departments have become more inclined to intervene and terminate access to birth parents . |
| 20 | It is also important , however , to appreciate when attempts at insertion are in-appropriate and to be able to recognise and manage failure of insertion . |
| 21 | The task of the language teacher is a difficult one : to facilitate a degree of socialization which will enable learners to send and receive text as discourse , while also guarding their right to be different and to enrich others through that difference , bringing to the language they are learning the wealth of their own individuality and culture . |
| 22 | Need to educate and gain confidence of domain experts |
| 23 | On economic grounds it is also prudent for both husband and wife to delay and limit childbearing within marriage , and compress the period devoted to childbearing . |
| 24 | Research has confirmed that women who continue to smoke and drink alcohol during pregnancy tend to produce smaller babies . |
| 25 | Experiments intended to test and develop understanding of face and person recognition ; |
| 26 | The aim of the new centre , Arena Arctica , is to collect and process date from space brought down with balloons or specially equipped aircraft from altitudes of 35 kilometres . |
| 27 | Oxford Practice Grammar uses text , conversation and situations to explain and practise language in context . |
| 28 | To talk well , we need to take and surrender control during conversation . |
| 29 | He ought to muster and start south before nightfall , if he 's going south . ’ |