Example sentences of "[verb] and to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one subject of philosophical curiosity to be found in Edinburgh , which no other city has to shew ; a college of the deaf and dumb , who are taught to speak , to read , to write and to practice arithmetick by a gentleman , whose name is Braidwood . |
| 2 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 3 | Civil rights , electoral reform , an end to gerrymandering and to discrimination in housing , jobs and appointments , the legal banning of incitement to religious discrimination . |
| 4 | He 's so determined , so forceful — he does what he wants and to hell with the consequences ! |
| 5 | While there are numerous conceptual models relating both to ageing and to disability , the problem lies in attempting to link the two together . |
| 6 | He was ruthless , arrogant , a man who casually did just as he pleased and to hell with the consequences , and it dawned on her that she was in dangerously close proximity to him . |
| 7 | Until I come , devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture , to preaching and to teaching . |
| 8 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 9 | Apart from any safeguards built into your employment contract , you may be eligible for statutory rights not to be unfairly dismissed and to redundancy pay calculated on the basis of a formula reflecting your age , years of service and ( up to a point ) salary level . |
| 10 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 11 | Most firms regarded the cost as low and confined mainly to power used for pumping and to maintenance . |
| 12 | Your mind might fight against it , but your body is liquefying , melting , yearning , ’ he growled throatily , ‘ and it 's very tempting to take what 's offered and to hell with tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | you know , look at the results and to effectively try and to sort of like estimate them . |
| 14 | The method of keeping little tins in the house marked ‘ rent ’ , ‘ rates ’ , ‘ telephone ’ , etc. , into which you put money may give a certain amount of satisfaction as a way of saving , but it will also give a burglar a certain amount of satisfaction to have everything so conveniently marked and to hand for him . |
| 15 | … to some people , especially those vulnerable to fear and to pain , there sometimes seems no refuge , no support . |
| 16 | Text organisation is an area of study very much in its infancy , yet interesting pointers are emerging both in relation to reading and to writing ( see , for instance , Byron et al. , 1981 and Hoey , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | It was yet another layer in what was to become the bountiful and complex nature of Burton 's attitude to sex , to authority , to love and to loyalty . |
| 18 | I was 19 years old when I made To Have and To Hold , but Humphrey Bogart was never my idol . |
| 19 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 20 | By contrast , when she wrote the novel versions of Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( ‘ ghastly title — it was a television title ’ ) , her characters had already been embodied , by other people . |
| 21 | A more serious problem was what to do with the soldiers who , now accustomed to fighting and to war 's many attractions , were finding themselves without an occupation . |
| 22 | Stock market ratios relate financial results to the number of shares issued and to stock market prices . |
| 23 | The police were empowered to direct and to route processions , but a ban could only come from the Home Secretary . |
| 24 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |
| 25 | Indirect experience , through diagrams , film sequences , and similar means , helps to explain and to structure what we experience directly . |
| 26 | The Children Act 1989 bringing disabled children into the same system as children in care , will provide an opportunity for a much needed impetus to research and to development in policies and practice concerning disabled children . |
| 27 | Protection is granted , in the context of a trade dispute , to interference with contract ( and not merely a contract of employment ) , to intimidation or conspiracy to injure and to interference with trade by unlawful means but by the Employment Act 1980 this protection was to a large extent withdrawn in case of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 28 | Libft is a library of C language functions that can be used in the application programs to specify and to checkpoint critical data , recover the checkpointed data , log events , do exception handling , and do N-version programming — presumably a means of ensuring that something vital written into the first version of a program survives unadulterated in subsequent versions . |
| 29 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 30 | In Belgrade cafés , streets and houses , you can hear constant war cries invitations to killing and to hatred . |