Example sentences of "and [vb -s] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yeltsin announced a softening of economic policy , with extra credits to industries , investments in agriculture and grants to the military conversion project .
2 Their mission to deliver food and supplies to the beseiged city of Sarajevo .
3 The final section of Avitus 's letter to Clovis , as it survives , exhorts the king to be active in the work of evangelization , and refers to the recent liberation of a captive people .
4 This is a French innovation and refers to the apsidal east end which has an interior ambulatory behind the high altar , giving access all round the church usually at least at choir and triforium levels .
5 In accordance with the traditional scheme , he distinguishes methods of investigation and discovery from methods of teaching , and refers to the old notions of analysis and resolution , composition and synthesis .
6 My correspondent 's earliest and most vivid recollection of a haunted railway line dates from childhood memories of some sixty years ago and refers to the short length of line between Goldmire Junction and Millwood Junction on the old Furness Railway in the area of Dalton-in-Furness .
7 Jaime Collins is nine and belongs to the 4th Harold Hill Pack in Essex .
8 Beecham 's comments are worthy of repetition : ‘ these two Concertos have a refinement and distinction that never fails to fall fragrantly on the ear , and offers to the musical amateur , who may feel at times that the evolution of his art is becoming a little too much for either his understanding or enjoyment , a soothing retreat where he may effectively rally his shattered forces ’ .
9 Five minutes later , the man with sunglasses comes out of the house and goes to the black car in the road .
10 Initially everyone welcomes the idea , but very quickly the organization outgrows the house and goes to the local authority demanding permission to build in the grounds .
11 If someone is unlucky and goes to the wrong festival , the lesson will not open with the words that I have quoted .
12 The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions .
13 Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments .
14 So , for women in waged jobs , the reduced time available in which to perform domestic labour acts as a pressure to heighten labour productivity in the home , and contributes to the successful penetration of capitalism into this still privatised sector , by the creation of a market for domestic mechanisation .
15 The criteria for selection for reporting are that the case involves an issue of legal principle and contributes to the orderly development of the law .
16 Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface .
17 This is of course an ongoing process for feminist artists as the work produced accommodates and contributes to the changing debates and theories of Feminism both in alternative public sites and more traditional gallery sites .
18 Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair .
19 Even when hearing loss is not severe , reading keeps one informed , increases vocabulary and adds to the aural memory-bank .
20 The advance man knows the way to get VIPs in and out of the hall and how to manage their entrances and exits to the best effect .
21 While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more .
22 The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column .
23 This message then leaves the nucleus , and passes to the ribosome assembly line .
24 Twelve of the forty interviews contained interesting contradictions between the overall assessments of satisfaction and answers to the direct question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ asked in the early stages of the interview .
25 The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place .
26 Variations in each of these factors can considerably alter the balance of benefits and costs to the local community in different areas and regions .
27 Thus , even if space is left within and at the end of each index , updating will involve the shifting and shuffling of a number of records or the use of pointers and links to the new records .
28 The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings .
29 Both RTS trainees and recruits to the new NVQ scheme complete a workbook , are assessed by a store instructor as they go along and receive the Retail Certificate .
30 The use , as materials , of things that have been discarded , abandoned or neglected : from lost shoes and combs to the forgotten histories of women , characterises much of the best work .
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