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

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1 Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years .
2 He had two political advisers : Harold Macmillan , the British Resident Minister in the Mediterranean ( holding Cabinet rank ) , whose role was to act as British political adviser and to liaise with the British Government .
3 The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . "
4 We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester .
5 There 's enough food and to spare for the coming year .
6 Short-term or emergency policies to try to reduce the pollution levels during a smog and to cope with the adverse health effects and economic disruption of a smog are complex .
7 Nuclear Electric , a third generating company , was to be established to take control of the nuclear power stations and to remain in the public sector .
8 We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’
9 It was luxury to stretch out , to groan , to relax … and to fall into the deepest slumber of my life …
10 If we allow Korea to go by default and to fall within the Soviet orbit , the world will feel that we have lost another round in our match with the Soviet Union , and our prestige and the hopes of those who place their faith in us will suffer accordingly … .
11 The purpose of these Guidelines is to take these general codes as a starting point and to comment on the practical implications of the responsibility owed by engineers in respect of risk issues , and to provide specific guidance to resolve risk concerns satisfactorily ( see also Guideline 3 , Resolving a Risk Concern , page 12 ) ) .
12 The tape showed Anderson sitting , struggling to keep himself alive and to communicate with the outside world , but the world was n't going to see it .
13 The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out .
14 The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good .
15 We will be urging him to withdraw the eligibility cuts , and to work with the legal profession , and the consumer organisations — to find less damaging ways of containing legal aid expenditure . ’
16 One of the major criticisms that is made of senior management is its unwillingness to let go of the reins of an organisation , to delegate routine tasks and to concentrate upon the longer term .
17 Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions .
18 With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance .
19 No I do n't think that 's , sorry , I think it is perfectly possible for Stella to make this assumption to get them changed and to come with the revised version which says , which is apparently what Jenny has done here , this looks to me , in a not unreasonable way , it looks , she is saying something is there , this must be an example of what Stella means , data can be stored in three different ways where clearly previously that said four different ways .
20 In the gigantic concrete suburbs around Bucharest and the other major cities , no churches were built to replace the ones in the areas demolished and to provide for the spiritual needs of the relocated populations .
21 Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests .
22 These were entitled to a 10 per cent preferential dividend and to participate with the ordinary shares equally in the surplus .
23 This is a striking indication of the role of money in European society as a whole ; it reveals that even the peasantry must have reckoned , under good conditions , to produce , and to sell in the local market , a substantial surplus .
24 In fact , however , its function ‘ was not to represent the workers ’ interests , but to prepare for the seizure of power and to serve as the organizational prototype of a new form of state power . ’
25 Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development .
26 Technically , this is quite difficult to play accurately up to speed ; I find the best approach is to try to maintain a very relaxed right hand wrist and to pick in the general area around the top end of the fingerboard .
27 I would here like to give two examples of such skewed populations and to speculate on the seeming anomaly .
28 To model such processes and to discriminate between the various mechanisms that are invoked to account for the genesis of the deposits requires a reliable estimate of the age of mineralisation .
29 Though towns such as Thirsk which had been by-passed by the railways had lost some of their former vitality , others continued to expand , to rebuild and to prosper during the Victorian era .
30 Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case .
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