Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 2 | A representative national committee for religious education and welfare was set up to establish youth clubs , organise correspondence classes , distribute literature and generally to keep contact with refugee children in Christian homes , offering Jewish hospitality at times of festival or fast and preparing boys for Bar Mitzvah . |
| 3 | It seems more reasonable to anticipate a response to a formal written instrument , especially one which may have adverse consequences on a third State , and thus to regard lack of response as acceptance of that agreement , than it is to demand early protest to an emergent rule of customary international law . |
| 4 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 5 | And just to add insult to injury , Doreen 's husband , Mike , had died two years ago . |
| 6 | This involves working mentally and physically to keep distractions at bay , guarding the tongue to speak little and to the point , taking especial care not to misrepresent others , living as if death might come tomorrow and balancing the needs of the body with the longings of the spirit in discretion . |
| 7 | A series of two-seat conversions were undertaken , both for training and also to carry observers on test work . |
| 8 | In the Summer Term of 1989 the LEA published and distributed a short booklet ( Leeds City Council 1989e ) which was ‘ intended to help parents to appreciate what constitutes the best primary school practice and also to highlight aspects of education that the Authority wishes to promote ’ . |
| 9 | She uses her silk to line the walls and also to bind particles of soil together into a circular lid three-quarters of an inch across . |
| 10 | Certain features of their performance are found to be correlated with and hence to convey information about direction and quality and distance of food source . |
| 11 | Such battles as the abolition of additional charges made on telephones , gas and electricity bills , and now to add insult to injury , V A T. |
| 12 | Thus the companies ' approach to investment has been to ensure that there is sufficient availability of short-term assets to meet unforeseen contingencies and then to maximise holdings of long-dated , higher-yielding assets . |
| 13 | Morris got another in the middle of those two and then to finish things off scrum-half laurie Beck and full back Tim Smith scored a try apiece to make it 42-15 … good weekend for them … good weekend for coach keith Richardson |
| 14 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |
| 15 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 16 | They must know their product thoroughly and how to promote sales by word of mouth , telephone or correspondence . |
| 17 | As potential jurors or witnesses , voters or representatives of political or interest groups , they will need to know how to judge or present a spoken case , how to recognise emotive language and arguments that are specious or selective , and how to marshall facts with clarity and precision . |
| 18 | The cream of one dairy 's workforce have received basic police training on crime prevention techniques and how to spot signs of trouble . |
| 19 | These include the individual 's pension rights ; the powers and responsibilities of scheme members , trustees , employers and advisers ; and how to manage conflict of interest . |
| 20 | We also talk of ‘ doing research ’ when we investigate the history of a place we intend to visit , looking up information in travel guides and brochures , finding out how best to get there , what to avoid and how to get value for money . |
| 21 | I had no idea so much money could be saved by simply understanding a balance-sheet , debt repayments and how to make claims against tax . |
| 22 | The declared aim of the conference was to discuss how to build a movement for socialist-feminism , how to popularise socialist-feminist ideas , and how to make alliances between labour movement women and women active outside of the labour movement . |
| 23 | The problem in designing an optimal search strategy is both how to combine scores across paths representing different levels of description ( derived from the component knowledge sources ) , and how to combine scores across time ( during the extension of a path ) , such that promising paths are given higher priority . |
| 24 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 25 | It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it . |
| 26 | Residential workers are not involved in decisions as to whether , when and where to admit children into care ; fieldworkers fail to provide basic information about the personal histories of the children and young people admitted to care ; young people are admitted to care precipitously , without warning or preparation ; fieldworkers sometimes fail to keep in touch with the young person and the residential staff once the child is admitted ; discharge for the young people can be as sudden as their arrival . |
| 27 | What Fraser and his colleagues decided to do , therefore , was try and introduce an element of competition first by dividing the three available stations — London , Midlands , Northern — ‘ vertically ’ , and secondly to move programmes from station to station ‘ horizontally ’ . |