Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be that they can discuss and compare life during the Great War , or in the 1920s and 1930s ; or they might want to talk about how expectations , duties , responsibilities have changed since their childhood days . |
| 2 | The hangar was used to service and prepare parachutes for the armed services . |
| 3 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 4 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 5 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |
| 6 | They wanted to recover a wider , more comprehensive vision of the church , one which could include and make room for the different forms in which the church had appeared through history , and in this way to overcome the deeply entrenched divisions between the separated confessions and denominations . |
| 7 | In the absence of more sophisticated software , and taking account of the desirability of direct client involvement , it was decided to try and make use of the same programme for record-keeping and analysis . |
| 8 | The learner is enabled to edit and modify text in the same way , say , as an adult journalist would . |
| 9 | Only recently has there been some serious debate within multiculturalism about the issues involved , although with very little guidance on how teachers are to approach and facilitate discussion around the inevitable questions which arise regarding the evaluation of different cultural representations , know ledges and practices . |
| 10 | It provides the opportunity for researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss papers about the methodological perspectives used in existing studies of the framing and impact of the ERA . |
| 11 | On Jan. 7 a spokesman for the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait said in Geneva that a minimum of US$145,300,000 would be needed to protect and assist Kurds over the next six months . |
| 12 | Since 1953 the United States has been subjected to rapidly reduced lead time on computer innovation , from several years ' lead time in the 1950s and 1960s to zero and lag time in the 1980s . |
| 13 | The Government will now take over the Student Loans Company , the Glasgow-based firm set up to lend and collect repayments on the Treasury-financed loans . |
| 14 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 15 | This is partly explained by the ability of lawyers to advise on and negotiate settlements to the mutual satisfaction of the parties to the dispute . |
| 16 | New world-patented TV glasses designed by two Hungarian engineers allow the wearer to walk and watch television at the same time . |
| 17 | In an address to the Chapter of Wells the new Bishop made the vow which was to cause him so much trouble later : ‘ In all solemnity to teach and inculcate allegiance' to the new King ‘ both in our discourse and in our example to all your subjects under our care ’ . |
| 18 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that France was to send an official military " observation unit " to the north of the country , where it would patrol and prevent infiltration across the international border . |
| 19 | Yet , De Lauretis argues , this new figural cinema at least poses the question of ‘ how to reconstruct and organize vision from the impossible place of female desire ’ . |
| 20 | We should not forget the general point that , in many communities where religious affiliation plays no part in political decisions , the clergy are still seen as leading figures who can be called upon to lead and organize activities outside the narrow remit of religion . |
| 21 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 22 | The dancers would dance , the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl . |
| 23 | His lips moved , framing words , but there was no strength in him to make the air push forward and give sound to the desperate message he was trying to call … |
| 24 | He used no notes ; he had rehearsed his words many times since receiving the invitation to inaugurate and become president of the new movement that would soon sweep America . |
| 25 | to be free to make and keep contacts with the outside world |
| 26 | Such understanding is an important component of the ability to give and understand explanations in the intentional mode , but it is not sufficient in itself . |
| 27 | However much both sectors might underline their commitment to high-quality education for students and other values of higher education as a whole , the struggle to define and remove boundaries at the same time led to uncertainty and ambiguity , tension and even ‘ ill-will ’ between the sectors . |
| 28 | Addressing the conference , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Supreme Soviet Chairman , attacked recent government criticism of both central and local legislatures , accusing the government of " constant provocative actions … perhaps to try and avoid responsibility for the existing failures in the economic reforms " . |
| 29 | The committee held that a direct approach should be made to Moscow to try and secure progress in the Joint Committee . |
| 30 | The mask will then arrive and terminate activity in the letter-detector level — but it will not affect activity in the word-detector level . |