Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To retain the support of the landowners , the regime continued throughout the 1950s to channel state funds into the agricultural sector and to support it with protectionist policies which merely sustained inefficiency and low productivity . |
| 2 | This research aims to assess UK policies for technical innovation in this broad context and to compare them with similar policies in other countries . |
| 3 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
| 4 | The Milky Way , presumably a translation of Ludwig Kuhn 's earlier German text of 1978 , is an attempt to give an up-to-date view of the Galaxy and to compare it with other galaxies . |
| 5 | The pharmacist could be informed of the risk and would be well placed to help the prescribers achieve their therapeutic objectives ( for example , by offering compliance aids , visiting the home , or checking usage of the product ) and to inform them of any problems . |
| 6 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 7 | The entry will be placed on the Proprietorship Register and will read : Note : The transfer to the proprietor contains a covenant by her with [ Husband ] to pay the monies secured by Charge No 1 and to indemnify him from all claims and demands in respect thereof . |
| 8 | The aim of science is to falsify theories and to replace them by better theories , theories that demonstrate a greater ability to withstand tests . |
| 9 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 10 | And to help us in these explorations we have as a guide Dr. Low Thomson . |
| 11 | In speeches to the Parliamentary Assembly and the Court and Commission of Human Rights on Oct. 8 , 1988 , Pope John Paul II called on the countries of Europe to " remember their common Christian heritage " and to apply it to all aspects of life , particularly to policies governing family life , genetic engineering , education and employment . |
| 12 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 13 | The ruling that there should be no prosecutions destroyed the hope that such court proceedings might uncover enough information to stir a public demand for a wider and more thorough inquiry into the background to the conspiracy to murder an innocent man and to frame him with stolen goods . |
| 14 | As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36–45 ) , it is essential to dismantle red roses , or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties , and to press them as individual petals . |
| 15 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 16 | to increase substantially the quality and range of experimental tools and to use them with larger samples of participants to provide more powerful tests and more direct evidence about alternative models of economic decision-making ; |
| 17 | When working with inexperienced collaborators it is important to brief them carefully , and to use them in simple roles , and perhaps non-speaking roles , for example , as |
| 18 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 19 | Although technically Yeltsin was still able to nominate Gaidar as Prime Minister , subject to Congress 's approval , and to retain him for three months even without such approval , it appeared that , realising the need for political compromise , he chose Chernomyrdin with Gaidar 's acquiescence . |
| 20 | Some of the tragic child-abuse cases publicly investigated in the 1970s and 1980s highlighted the need for schools both to record information about possible child abuse and to share it with other agencies . |
| 21 | It is therefore a good ideas to make copies from fairly early on of all language and anthropological materials , and to keep them in other places , such as a technical studies department or headquarters office . |
| 22 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 23 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 24 | There are also ideas and schemes to purchase and renovate many of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quintas around the island and to re-open them as small hotels . |
| 25 | The object is to ride on an unusual or distinctive tram , photograph it and to place it in unusual locations where it is not usually to be seen . |
| 26 | What the term ‘ popular music ’ tries to do is to put a finger on that space , that terrain , of contradiction — between ‘ imposed ’ and ‘ authentic ’ , ‘ elite ’ and ‘ common ’ , predominant and subordinate , then and now , theirs and ours , and so on — and to organize it in particular ways |
| 27 | In this case , only the Secretary of State stands in the way of a move to decentralise control over local spending and to return it to local communities . |
| 28 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 29 | Edouard de Chavigny was a Frenchman ; he understood that women , when abandoned , liked some small remembrance to soften the blow and to remind them of tender memories . |
| 30 | In general terms , the first chapter of the book manifests Nash 's intention to treat popfiction , " the art that easily diverts us " , with respect , and to defend it against those readers who scorn it and deny its merits . |