Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National market research organisations such as the British Market Research Bureau and JICNARS ( Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys ) , which are dealt with in a later chapter , code their surveys by ACORN to enable the advertiser to identify titles whose profiles best match his own , and to see what share of this target market that title reaches . |
| 2 | To this end they proposed that ‘ a small number of planning assessors should be appointed to give help and advice to local planning authorities and to monitor their performance by continual and informal contact ’ . |
| 3 | For example , a company makes consistent use of spreadsheets to keep costs under control and to monitor its performance against those of its competitors . |
| 4 | : To repeat the investigations of the OALD and CED with much increased sample size , and to compare their performance with that of the LDOCE . |
| 5 | Therefore it is desirable to apply this dictionary to a range of domain-specific documents and to compare its performance with that of the appropriate domain-specific dictionary . |
| 6 | Over the next six months calls through AEA will be monitored to see if a measurable improvement in call handling is evident and to compare our performance with that of other major UK organisations . |
| 7 | The cybernetic approach is tailored to make sense of statements regarding body — mind interaction and to increase our understanding of both terms . |
| 8 | Observers also considered that Saddam 's efforts to resume peace talks had been designed both to " neutralize " Iran in preparation for Iraq 's August invasion of Kuwait , and to secure its assistance in any war between Iraq and its Arab and Western adversaries . |
| 9 | It is therefore possible to calculate the quadrupole moment of this system and to infer its output of gravitational radiation . |
| 10 | Reformers who advocated social welfare regulation were motivated by ideals , but also by the desire to improve the productivity of the working class and to attract its support for particular political causes . |
| 11 | The project aims to investigate the incidence and organisation of such ‘ clusters ’ and to evaluate their effectiveness in supporting pupils with a wide range of special educational needs within mainstream schools . |
| 12 | Of winner and loser , the loser group is likely to learn more from the experience , and to evaluate its performance for future activity . |
| 13 | As some of the leaders of this effort moved into top positions , they began to strengthen the division leadership and to exert their influence in various meetings of the leaders of the businesses around the world . |
| 14 | The first step in eradicating dry rot is to find the heart of the outbreak and to trace its extent with great care and thoroughness . |
| 15 | The aim here is simply to remind you of the basics and to draw your attention to some of the new provisions that could have a bearing on your immediate or longer term plans . |
| 16 | I like to make to Mr Hopkin is private citizen a small gift of Frenloudji book , which is the only abject in my possession and to give him handshake for last time . |
| 17 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
| 18 | He went on in Book IV ( 1603 ) to introduce free declamation on whole chords ( ‘ Sfogava con le stelle ’ ) and to heighten his norm of unconventional dissonance , thus provoking a famous attack by the conservative theorist Giovanni Artusi . |
| 19 | ( The five Central Asian republics — Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Kirgizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia — reached a further agreement on Aug. 14 to set up direct trading links between them and to reduce their dependence on central economic planning . |
| 20 | In a subsequent stage of the project , detailed case studies of a small number of organisations will be undertaken in order to explore recruitment practices in greater depth and to consider their relationship to other aspects of the organisations ' structure , operation and management . |
| 21 | The purpose of the testing was to obtain empirical data on the test items in respect of their difficulty and their discrimination , and to consider their placing in possible graduated test levels . |
| 22 | Stern ( 1983 ) argued that a good pedagogical theory — or as adult educators would say a good andragogical one — would enable us to view language teaching in a much better perspective and to recognize its relationship with other kindred activities . |
| 23 | Through the discipline of such action , that is , through karma yoga , which involves ahi sā , we come to the realization of Truth or God , for to realize God is to see Him in all that lives , and to recognize our oneness with all creation . |
| 24 | To do my hair and my nails and to forget my role as head cook , bottle-washer , laundress and housekeeper for a while was refreshing , and each job increased my pleasure in the other . |
| 25 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 26 | A few years later , in 1912 , La Fresnaye , attempting to describe a certain aspect of Cézanne 's work and to assess his influence on contemporary painting said : ‘ Each object , in one of the late canvases , has ceased to exist only in itself , and becomes little by little a cell within the whole organism of the painting . |
| 27 | The right way to indicate its nature is , therefore , to give instances where it is present , and to describe its interaction with other parts of the system to which it belongs , in particular when the interaction leads to predictions which can be checked ; simple as the system may be , we shall find that successive interactions can swiftly lead to structures of quite satisfying complexity ( see Appendix B ) . |
| 28 | For after 1933 the labour movement internationally was faced with a problem which was to preoccupy it and to change its focus from domestic to international affairs . |
| 29 | It suggests that the attempt to impose a neutral character on the liberal state and to purge its law of any substantive content can only serve to erode those moral and religious foundations which are essential for the survival of liberalism . |
| 30 | In the 1960s Kenyatta manipulated sales of formerly white-owned land and businesses in such a way as to create a new class of Kenyan capitalists to replace the old white capitalists , in a no-nonsense determination to both preserve the private sector and to transfer its ownership into African hands . |