Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in order to increase the perceived representativeness of the National Council of the Resistance and to dilute the influence of the Communist Party within it , he insisted that all the major prewar parties — even the centrist and conservative parties which were mere phantoms in 1943 — should be represented in it alongside the new resistance movements . |
| 2 | However , the flight was extremely enjoyable and we travelled low enough almost to touch the antlers of the wild moose that were in the area and to see the countryside from the most advantageous position . |
| 3 | Students living in the University residences are required to register with a local medical practitioner or with the University Physician , and to report the name of the doctor to the Accommodation Officer . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where … there is reasonable cause to suspect that the person had died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown , the coroner may , if he is of opinion that a post-mortem examination may prove an inquest to be unnecessary — ( a ) direct any legally qualified medical practitioner … to make a post mortem examination of the body and to report the result of the examination to the coroner in writing . |
| 5 | The government aimed to reduce further its direct role in productive activity and to continue the liberalization of the foreign trade system . |
| 6 | The demand from the hospitality industry was to integrate different computer systems and to continue the automation of the keycard concept . |
| 7 | The meeting also decided to hold two further 15-day sessions to decide whether legislative and presidential elections should be held simultaneously , and to agree the procedure for the collection of signatures for the registration of parties . |
| 8 | The worst thing was having to climb that damned ladder to the roof of Flying Control in a howling gale and lashing rain , to see how far I could n't see across the air field and to estimate the strength of the wind which was doing its best to dislodge my desperate hold on the railing . |
| 9 | Subsequently local authorities were asked in 1981 to review their curriculum policy and to plan the curriculum along the lines suggested in The School Curriculum ( DES , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | We will wish to minimise these , and to monitor the success of the new system , with future developments in mind . |
| 11 | The constitution adopted by the founder-members of the BDDA provided that the Association should meet at least biennially " in congress " , and that the members present should by a majority vote elect the President , four Vice-presidents , a Secretary , Treasurer and eight members of the executive committee to hold office and to conduct the business of the Association until the next Congress . |
| 12 | The British position had been to press for intergovernmental co-operation on foreign , security and judicial matters ( outside the European Community as such ) and to emphasise the deepening of the democracy of the national parliaments of the Member States rather than of the European Parliament itself . |
| 13 | We only had such wood as we could scrounge , and to light a fire with the bare minimum of paper and wood , plus uncooperative coke is difficult to say the least . |
| 14 | The purpose of the current investigation is to show a possible binding or uptake of PT-gliadin in the enterocytes , and to compare the handling of the components between coeliac patients and controls . |
| 15 | If basket impaction is to be avoided , it is essential to assess the size of the sphincterotomy and the lower common bile duct with a balloon catheter , and to compare the size of the balloon with the stone(s) to be removed . |
| 16 | Two members of the PAIN organisation went to Orkney to prepare a report on the events as they had happened up to that point , and to compare the reality with the guidelines . |
| 17 | Photographers are trained to get the best out of models and to arrange the lighting to the most dramatic effect , and they are usually very creative as well . |
| 18 | When this happens in reciprocal discourse , in face to face conversation , where the discourse develops by the exchange of speaker role , then the situation can be remedied ( given the impulse to co-operate and to accommodate the reality of the interlocutor 's world ) by an overtly interactive negotiation whereby intention and interpretation are brought into an approximate convergence as required by the purpose of the interaction . |
| 19 | Joe Mallon , Fumigation Technician assisted by Dougie Gray both from the Glasgow Central branch , ensured that the vehicles were correctly fumigated , and to accommodate the length of the cars a double size bubble ( 7m x 3.5m x 2.5m ) was used . |
| 20 | From the 1480s onwards , the papacy needed the diplomatic support of the early Tudor monarchs in order to strengthen its political hold over the Papal States and to mount a crusade against the Turks , who had captured Constantinople in 1453 . |
| 21 | Multiple copies also enabled the consignor , the consignee , or the consignor 's assigns to claim a breach of the carrier 's duty of safe carriage and to lodge a claim against the cargo insurers . |
| 22 | As a counter to the determinedly working-class basis of Labour 's populism , it sought to unite ‘ forces working for good government of the borough , and to combat the policy of the extremists who seek to create a privileged section of the community at the expense of the rest ’ ( Municipal Alliance , nd ) . |
| 23 | to combine the forces working for good government of the borough , and to combat the policy of the extremists who seek to create a privileged section of the community at the expense of the rest . |
| 24 | He has already become a familiar figure at St Wilfrid 's Primary School , which he regularly visits both for pastoral duties and to enjoy the company of the pupils . |
| 25 | ITV had assumed ever since the third channel was given to the BBC after Pilkington ( as BBC2 ) , that the fourth channel would come to ITV , on the principle of ‘ fair-dos ’ and to preserve the balance of the duopoly . |
| 26 | This of course moved the centre of gravity aft , and to restore the trim of the aircraft the wings were given a marked degree of sweepback . |
| 27 | The only accurate way to calculate the amount of alcohol consumed is to understand the amount of alcohol in a given drink — expressed as a percentage of alcohol by volume — and to know the size of the serving . |
| 28 | So , for example , a new fibre-tipped pen , in a range of such pens offered by a newcomer to the market , may be sold at a loss in order to draw attention to the range as a whole , and to establish a share of the total market . |
| 29 | The School of Church Music was founded in 1927 in order to improve the standards of church choirs , and to establish a college for the study of church music and the training of church musicians . |
| 30 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |