Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was another system adopted from the private sector and was essentially one in which objectives were specified and quantified , potential conflicts identified , and opportunities provided to management to monitor progress and to evaluate results . |
| 2 | The partner concerned will need to develop control systems to enable him to monitor progress and to satisfy himself about quality control and supervision . |
| 3 | But , as in the case of a personal representative , until he elects to become registered and is , he will not become a member of the company entitled to attend meetings and to vote . |
| 4 | Three days before the presidential elections , the military government on Dec. 11 , 1989 , granted the Central Bank full autonomy under new statutes which allowed the Finance Minister to attend meetings and to have a 15-day veto on policy . |
| 5 | In addition the peso was devalued against the US dollar from US$1=Ps7.3 to US$1=Ps10.2 in order to stimulate exports and to reduce arrears on the US$4,000 million foreign debt . |
| 6 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 7 | When you are trying to lose weight or to keep your weight down , it sometimes seems like needless fuss making a ‘ proper cooked lunch ’ . |
| 8 | You should continue to lose weight and to feel more and more healthy as the weeks go by . |
| 9 | Here the option is either to purchase a ready made carrier or to devise one 's own . |
| 10 | It is important to emphasise brevity and to allow no more than 20 minutes . |
| 11 | yet , as Lancaster observes ‘ Librarians do not exist merely to acquire books or to maximise the work load at the circulation desk : presumably libraries are in some way concerned with certain uses of books and with certain desired outcomes of the reading process. , |
| 12 | Helen regretted giving her consent , because she intended to see Edward and to write to him . |
| 13 | For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions ' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents . |
| 14 | On the 8th , Baldwin saw the King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and told him that although he ‘ had come to no decision ’ , his inclination was ‘ not to meet Parliament but to resign ’ . |
| 15 | Practitioners of such technically adept management , the new ‘ professional managers ’ of United States business schools , have recently been lambasted both for their failure to conceive strategies and to implement them as well as for their systematic choice of self-defeating strategies ( Hayes and Abernathy , 1980 ; see also Hayes and Wheelwright , 1984 ; Hayes et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling . |
| 17 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 18 | The latter were constructed to both conserve moisture and to reduce soil erosion and occur on slopes as steep as 25° . |
| 19 | In March 1990 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank officially approved the government 's new economic austerity measures , which included further devaluation , cuts in public spending and food subsidies , and a tightening of the money supply , as well as the introduction of a two-tier foreign exchange rate [ see below ] to encourage exports and to increase hard currency earnings . |
| 20 | It is likely that many follow-up meetings will need to be held after the initial announcement is made to communicate progress and to deal with employee problems as they occur . |
| 21 | The effect of thematizing an object or complement in English is to provide contrast and to emphasize the speaker 's attitude to the message . |
| 22 | He also called upon Congress to approve specific tax reforms [ see below ] to encourage investment and to revive the ailing housing market . |
| 23 | One possibility currently being explored by the director Nicholas Mann , together with the directors of the group of University of London Institutes for Advanced Study ( ULIAS ) to which the Warburg belongs , is the creation of a single federal research institute which would be in a stronger position to attract funds and to resist indiscriminate cuts from above . |
| 24 | The crusade you are beginning for a great and united national effort to revive industry and to rescue the mass of our population from hardship and suffering of unnecessary poverty deserves , and I believe will receive , the support of earnest and sympathetic men and women of all parties and of that large and increasing number of electors who have no party affiliations . |
| 25 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 26 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 27 | A comfortable loop pile liner is built into the glove to provide insulation and to prevent condensation . |
| 28 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 29 | When he died in 1821 the Serbs had acquired in practice , if not in law , the right to appoint the local Turkish officials , to collect customs and ferry duties and to levy special taxes . |
| 30 | A wife has duties and to please her husband is one of them . |