Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Businesses now have a lower pound — that means a golden opportunity to invest and export into new markets . |
| 2 | Here in the final work , the shaping of a total unity , there returns a crucial division , and because I can not read from it , even badly , I will not talk about it , which leaves intact your freedom to go and read it . |
| 3 | They could not distinguish public splendour to dazzle and impress their people and foreigners alike ( if that is the effect their trappings achieved ) from the conveniences of private life . |
| 4 | At Level One students will work as individuals or in small groups to plan and carry out an investigation into an aspect of Community Welfare with limited support from the tutor . |
| 5 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 6 | Citing ‘ the absence of significant interaction ’ between the museum and the mall these two ‘ sites of consumer culture ’ Ms Greenberg condemned ‘ the Western museum 's inability to acknowledge and respond to this new presence ’ , i.e. , the mall , labelling it ‘ one more episode in a history which continues to separate art and life , the past and the present ’ . |
| 7 | By ‘ magnanimity ’ the last thing one means is a willingness to forgive and forget . |
| 8 | His basic theology , his belief in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Bible , the nature of Christ as perfect God and man , His death on the cross to pay the penalty for sin , God 's gracious gift of faith to His elect , man 's responsibility to repent and believe the Gospel , and so on , are all considered as ‘ outmoded ’ by many leaders in the modern church . |
| 9 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 10 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 11 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 12 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 13 | The earlier detection of prostatic cancers that have not spread will surely allow us the opportunity to treat and cure some of these patients . |
| 14 | Despite the imperfections of the documents , he felt to the full his responsibility to preserve and hand over intact to his successor all the rights , privileges , and possessions of which he was the divinely constituted guardian . |
| 15 | Its " root " system has been found to extend down the face of a cliff 12m ( 40ft ) , and breaking the rhizomes stimulates buds on the remainder to sprout and produce more growth and spores . |
| 16 | However , even the most well-meaning attempts to induce and promote local enterprise may sometimes result in little in terms of quantifiable gains to the community at large . |
| 17 | I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! |
| 18 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 19 | Assessing the effects of LEA programmes to monitor and evaluate the quality of schooling |
| 20 | I 've made a decision to go and say , hey , this might be worth having . |
| 21 | It would n't convict our man , but it gives us an excuse to go and pay a call on the Putts of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 22 | As Keith Evans rightly reminded us , some attempts to stimulate and support resource-based learning resulted in " magnificently equipped Resource Centres with highly trained stall , from which teachers retreat , their confidence undermined ! " |
| 23 | Whatever meaning this image had had in Charlemagne 's day , Walahfrid invited his contemporaries to compare and contrast the miserly , heretical , tyrannous Theodoric with the generous , orthodox and merciful Louis . |
| 24 | The fragments may be eaten there and then or tucked away beside the column to be collected when the hunt is over and taken back to feed the queen and those who stayed back in camp to tend and protect her . |
| 25 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 26 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 27 | We thus turn to investors ' attitudes to risk and return . |
| 28 | I , only guardian to wait and hold . |
| 29 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 30 | Local authorities will be encouraged to offer those in housing need the opportunity to restore and improve council properties . |