Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 2 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 3 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 4 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 5 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 6 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |
| 7 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 8 | As budgeting is an integral part of any business plan , it is usually preferable both to express the plan and to review it on an annual basis that coincides with the firm 's accounting year . |
| 9 | With the rise of theories purporting to identify this phenomenon of underdevelopment and to explain it as an active process in the global strategy of capitalist exploitation , First , Second and Third Worlds , despite the emphasis on the nation-state , were usually conceptualized as relatively undifferentiated objects . |