Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] and [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A course designed to extend and practise commercial English .
2 This is part of the ideological pedagogy which the institution uses to create and maintain defensive boundaries against the outsider or those who might produce a critical analysis of its systems ; it is one major strength of the organization .
3 This is the point at which I as a mathematical physicist begin to splutter and go red in the face .
4 The research aims to uncover and examine Irish women 's migration to Britain in the post-War period .
5 But its existence meant that Britain had joined the other major states of Europe in providing herself with a minister and an administrative machine designed to conduct and control foreign policy .
6 If and when points come forward the group meets to discuss and decide appropriate action .
7 As industrialisation advanced eastwards across Europe , so social and political pressures within the logic of capitalist organisation helped to simplify and solidify national identities as part of the new economic and political order .
8 If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block .
9 Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region .
10 Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region .
11 Take advantage of opportunities for training and education offered to advance and improve personal professional standards .
12 For this reason , programmes of teacher education need to recognise and respect individual teachers ' responsibility for their own growth .
13 Then , when she judged the moment right , Laura shut down the damper in the smokestack , sealed the air-vents , and the whole kiln began to throb and pant black smoke .
14 Of course one is teaching new material as well , but it 's the repetition of certain subjects which can be boring , so we 're trying to combine this with material which sees it in application , and in fact for engineers their whole orientation is towards applying ideas and not just to learning how and why nature works — that 's the question that science asks , but engineering aims to apply and harness natural phenomena .
15 This paper seeks to describe and explain observed grade differences in sickness absence .
16 In 1939 the government began to study and develop new levadas .
17 I recently met the Japanese Keidanren when they visited this country , and I reassured them that the Government continue to welcome and support Japanese investment in this country .
18 But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies .
19 AFTER THE end of the last act our host began to sweat and look pale
20 While largely discursive , the project seeks to adapt and extend existing economic models of resource use against the background of what appears to be a changed environmentalist outlook .
21 However , it is less appreciated that in many cases the causality also appears to work in the opposite direction ; that is , the nature of the British housing system tends to form and perpetuate major demographic differentials in terms of fertility , nuptiality and marital breakdown , and mortality .
22 With further autonomization and the advent of modernism , culture becomes either inaccessible and thus no longer can function positively to construct such a stable identity , or more commonly , as argued above , modernist culture comes to undermine and destabilize bourgeois identity .
23 9.3 To that intent and save and subject as aforesaid , the receiving Party undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless the supplying Party against all or any loss , damage , liability , costs , claims and demands ( whether direct , consequential or otherwise ) arising out of or in connection with the use made by the Receiving Party of any such technical information whether the liability claim be in contract or in tort and whether the same arises directly or by way of any claim for an indemnity contribution or otherwise and irrespective of whether or not the same was in consequence of the negligence of any person .
24 Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society .
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