Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 2 | The Longeval Animal Sanctuary rescues and cares for many animals , and also regularly visit inner-city schools taking lambs , goats , piglets , calves , rabbits etc to give the children there the opportunity to see and touch these animals for themselves . |
| 3 | As the essential measure to secure and entrench lasting reform we will introduce fair votes by proportional representation for Parliamentary elections . |
| 4 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 5 | Sometime in March ( date to be agreed ) there will be a Woodworker Fellowship visit for a day which will provide another opportunity to meet and discuss individual problems and projects . |
| 6 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 7 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 8 | It was not the twelve who fulfilled their Lord 's command to go and teach all nations the good news . |
| 9 | the German Er secondly there there was a golden opportunity for our apprentices in industry to go and see German industry and French industry . |
| 10 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 11 | The third proposes new guidance to consolidate and update existing guidance . |
| 12 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 13 | An attempt to catalogue and quantify these hazards in the field at Henfaes was made by Peters ( 1980 ) who included white clover amongst the species that he studied . |
| 14 | Today , however , we make a conscious attempt to identify and measure social needs and to evaluate the services that try to meet them . |
| 15 | My own minicom is invaluable as it enables users with profound hearing loss to give and receive instant conversation . |
| 16 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 17 | Too often regional issues are neglected in an attempt to understand and to moderate urban decline . |
| 18 | In Germany the most important aspect of the reorganisation of the foreign ministry after the war was the creation of a new department to foster and supervise foreign trade , the Aussenhandelstelle , so large that it occupied over 120 rooms . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1980s the government made attempt after attempt to control and curb local government expenditure through cash limits , rate-capping and grant withdrawal . |
| 20 | Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows . |
| 21 | Susan wished Daine would show himself so they could struggle mind to mind and settle this thing . |
| 22 | In a speech on July 5 President Banda had announced an intention to charge and try all detainees suspected of breaking the law , saying that a special tribunal headed by a High Court judge would be set up to hear appeals from any detainees who had not been charged with any offence . |
| 23 | Waves of compassion and outrage fuse with delayed feelings of self-pity for her own plight , and society seems for a moment a huge conspiracy to exploit and oppress young women . |
| 24 | Swarms of wolf riders are often deployed ahead of the army 's line of march to scout and block any route of escape . |
| 25 | It was not until sectorisation in 1983 and the creation by the then InterCity director Cyril Bleasdale of a special department to co-ordinate and develop charter-train operation , that BR began to get its act together . |
| 26 | The best approach is therefore for a document processing system to allow the user to define and use logical objects . |
| 27 | On receipt of an application from the member for permission to purchase and use these chemicals on the same basis as farmers and commercial growers , supported by the RSC statement , MAFF would issue a licence to do so . |
| 28 | Maria 's husband finds whatever work he can , his income is at best , sporadic , so the couple frequently relies on her meagre income to feed and clothe 8 year old Luis and 9 year old Eveline . |
| 29 | These particular circumstances , and the weekly necessity to define and defend rational positions , no doubt sharpened my own sense of the imminence of major educational change . |
| 30 | The Principal offered me complete freedom to visit and photograph any part of the complex . |