Example sentences of "and [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To retain the support of the landowners , the regime continued throughout the 1950s to channel state funds into the agricultural sector and to support it with protectionist policies which merely sustained inefficiency and low productivity . |
| 2 | The Milky Way , presumably a translation of Ludwig Kuhn 's earlier German text of 1978 , is an attempt to give an up-to-date view of the Galaxy and to compare it with other galaxies . |
| 3 | In speeches to the Parliamentary Assembly and the Court and Commission of Human Rights on Oct. 8 , 1988 , Pope John Paul II called on the countries of Europe to " remember their common Christian heritage " and to apply it to all aspects of life , particularly to policies governing family life , genetic engineering , education and employment . |
| 4 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 5 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 6 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 7 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 8 | The object is to ride on an unusual or distinctive tram , photograph it and to place it in unusual locations where it is not usually to be seen . |
| 9 | What the term ‘ popular music ’ tries to do is to put a finger on that space , that terrain , of contradiction — between ‘ imposed ’ and ‘ authentic ’ , ‘ elite ’ and ‘ common ’ , predominant and subordinate , then and now , theirs and ours , and so on — and to organize it in particular ways |
| 10 | In this case , only the Secretary of State stands in the way of a move to decentralise control over local spending and to return it to local communities . |
| 11 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 12 | In general terms , the first chapter of the book manifests Nash 's intention to treat popfiction , " the art that easily diverts us " , with respect , and to defend it against those readers who scorn it and deny its merits . |
| 13 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |