Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With a hopeless head for finance and a desperate desire to befriend , Lear was only too willing to receive the attentions of John Gould , then in his mid-20s , and to initiate him into the secrets of the new technique of lithography and the art of ornithological illustration . |
| 32 | He argues that a central aim of Conservatism has been ‘ to discredit the social democratic concept of universal citizenship rights , guaranteed and enforced through public agencies , and to replace it with a concept of citizenship rights achieved through property ownership and participation in markets ’ . |
| 33 | I welcome this opportunity to congratulate the Government on the Gracious Speech and on their proposal to abolish the community charge and to replace it with the council tax . |
| 34 | Not only was he being fearfully indiscreet , but it was said that he had been foolish enough actually to marry her and to install her in a cottage in the palace grounds . |
| 35 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 36 | It would be far better , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said , to conclude association agreements with those countries and to help them in every way to catch up and to adopt the principles of a single free market rather than trying to integrate them within new political structures . |
| 37 | Your reward , as carer , is knowing that you have done your best to make the patient comfortable and happy , and to help him through the recovery process from his illness , however long it takes . |
| 38 | This section gives effect to the recommendations of the Clayson Committee as to who should have the right to object , confers the right on organisations representing owners and occupiers in the neighbourhood , also makes it obligatory on all objectors to lodge objections with the clerk to the licensing board and to intimate them to the applicant . |
| 39 | Unlike Alfonso , they chose to recognize his worth and to aid him in the war against the African Moors . |
| 40 | This great designer has an uncanny ability to capture the prevailing mood of the moment and to rework it in a way that can suddenly seem understandable , even wearable , and invariably highly influential . |
| 41 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 42 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 43 | Watch out for copyright laws ; no studio will copy a track from a record without written permission from the Record Co , and to play it on the day you may need a licence from the Performing Rights Society . |
| 44 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 45 | It is no coincidence that Rousseau also believed that women were incapable of the development and education required for citizenship and ‘ must be trained to bear the yoke from the first … and to submit themselves to the will of others . ’ |
| 46 | Lord Grubb knew well enough that Algy dreaded her visits , and to let her off the trial of breakfasting with her mother he had installed a complicated route of strings and pulleys that led from her second-storey bedroom to the basement . |
| 47 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 48 | But Qaddafi 's promise to abolish the state was not a policy in this sense : it was a promise to change the structure of political activity , and to do it in an area over which sovereigns have more or less complete control . |
| 49 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 50 | It is convenient to limit considered choice to humans , assuming a definition of ‘ consider ’ which requires the operation of verbal or other symbols , and to use it as the criterion for distinguishing the deliberate from the spontaneous . |
| 51 | The idea we are putting to you is to keep a diary of certain of the major aspects of the course and to use it as an aid to reflection and learning . |
| 52 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 53 | A worthwhile longer-term project , which gets closer to the heart of the matter , is therefore to begin to unearth these injunctions , to bring them to light , and to put them to the test of rational and empirical scrutiny . |
| 54 | " This Meeting recommend to the Collector to procure from the County town Models of the Imperial Weights and measures , and to put them in the hands of Samuel Lamont , who is appointed to ascertain that all weights and measures within the Island be corrected and marked by the standard . " |
| 55 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 56 | He has begun to remove teacher training from the colleges which have served us so ill in the past and to put it in the hands of the best schools . |
| 57 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 58 | They have organised our industries , our occupations and the landscapes of our towns and country to produce these things , and to distribute them to the people . |
| 59 | IBM UK Ltd has agreed in principle to pre-load Tel-Me on all its personal computers ‘ of an agreed specification ’ and will design and build a specific machine to incorporate the necessary communications devices , and to distribute Tel-Me in the UK . |
| 60 | It must be possible to receive this material in the format agreed with ICC and to read it into the system without delay . |