Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 2 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 3 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 4 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 5 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 6 | And because you are so much older , you would n't see yourself as competing for the same resources , and you would probably have matured in ways emotionally , that would make you accept and identify with the parental values , rather than , than feel sad or , or resentful , because you felt you were more like your brother , as it were , and you were being discriminated against . |
| 7 | Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss . |
| 8 | The answer too is other than to try and work towards the two communities will agree on something and that 's how your how you 'll like it . |
| 9 | I think I 'm supposed to go and report to the local polizei tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Dissatisfied with the quality of many land availability studies , the DoE commissioned Coopers and Lybrand to carry out a study to assess and report on the varying assessments and assumptions about new housing made by the planning authorities and house builders , and to assess the extent to which both the provision in plans and land which is made available for housing takes account of the requirements of the market for new private sector housing' . |
| 11 | The Exchequer and Audit Departments Act of 1866 ( as slightly amended in 1921 ) created the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and charged him to identify and report upon the public accounts and to ensure that expenditures were authorised by Parliament and supported by the Treasury . |
| 12 | I am looking for photographs of pilots , aircraft and airfields that would be available to copy and return to the original owners . |
| 13 | In so doing they served notice that , although enthusiasm would ebb and flow through the following decades , a new and fundamental fact had entered the politics of the nation . |
| 14 | I must go and apologise to the other guests . ’ |
| 15 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 16 | But in reality such protests were conducted at a low level in order not to interfere with normal , and reasonably good , relations which British foreign secretaries wished to continue and nurture with the offending nations . |
| 17 | Essentially , the cold war preserved American power structures and so prevented the emergence of a new set of political institutions which could regulate the post-Fordist global economy , and which could manage and respond to the dramatic changes in the balance of the world economy as a result of the introduction of new methods of production , especially in Japan and Western Europe , based on the intensive use of information technologies . |
| 18 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 19 | There were heavy penalties for anyone who continued to buy and sell outside the prescribed times . |
| 20 | Thanks to just three votes , Mr Major could sit back and relax for a few moments . |
| 21 | I enclose a wooden varnished toy which I would be obliged if you would examine and test under the above Regulations . |
| 22 | Rover has been quick to identify and exploit on the visual cues that so distinguish its cars , as witnessed by the successful return of the traditional chrome grille . |
| 23 | As with the original Turrican , our hero must leap and bound around the maze-like landscapes , shooting anything that even twitches . |
| 24 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 25 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 26 | No one else did , and Salah was careful to stagger the entertainments so that the foreign teachers ( for whom he had a certain distaste ) should arrive and leave before the other guests . |
| 27 | They chained and manacled their dangerous charge once more leaving him only sufficient movement to shamble and struggle along the ancient passageways of his confinemnent |
| 28 | All these questions become acute , and unless we have a clear understanding of what is at stake we may quickly go under and revert to the low expectations for church life that have perhaps characterised our previous experience . |
| 29 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 30 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |