Example sentences of "[adv] and [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 2 | It is as well at this point to confirm that it is so and to add that there are further complications , bibliographical and biographical . |
| 3 | We tend to view ourselves as physical beings only and to deny that we have anything in the way of a soul or spirit . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 5 | Indonesia 's traditional performing arts , such as music and shadow-puppet shows , play a major part in the life of the ‘ media village ’ , attracting people of all ages and social and religious backgrounds to perform together and to talk and share ideas and concerns . |
| 6 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 7 | The quest for respectability was very much part of the drive to increase audiences generally and to ensure that motion-picture theatres were not confined to any down-town ghetto but it was also part of an even more fundamental question . |
| 8 | The weekend of 13/14 March was used to do the cut over and to ensure that everything was in full working order . |
| 9 | It is important to be able to think about what has taken place once the session is over and to know that all the things you said were a product of your own subconscious and therefore likely to be extremely relevant to your own development . |
| 10 | The aim of the training is to help the individual to think more adaptively and to develop and improve their performance in any particular task . |
| 11 | We must ensure that there is local flexibility when assessing housing benefit so that it is sufficient to meet the charges that are imposed locally and to ensure that the gap does not widen . |
| 12 | The need to educate people , both to use deep-fat fryers properly and to clean and filter oil regularly , is a factor also referred to by sales and marketing director for Garland Catering Equipment , Keith Davies . |
| 13 | Dad poked his head round the door to see what was going on and to ask if I 'd seen Mum . |
| 14 | It is an important role of the database administrator to control attempts to keep data on the database indefinitely and to ensure that data entering the database is likely to be of use in the near future . |
| 15 | It really must be be for the churches and the families themselves to go much further and to instruct if that is the er what the Noble Lord is hinting at , at erm promoting belief . |
| 16 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 17 | I think , obviously you 've you 've got your own organization , your own professional standards and things , I think they need to be developed and , more importantly , promoted themselves to the public , and then , to take it a bit further and to try and escape that straitjacket which I think which in this country particularly all public servants are limited by . |
| 18 | In this project , however , we wished to go further and to investigate whether the pig graves differed from the sheep graves in terms of the age , sex or apparent wealth of the incumbents . |
| 19 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 20 | And now particularly Ron Todd who 's of course the General Secretary of the biggest union in this country , is making a real effort to open things up and to try and get negotiations going , and we 're very hopeful that we 'll get some positive of response from that . |
| 21 | Almost all his spines had fallen out and to top that he 's albino . |
| 22 | At the end of a year it 's good to look back and to feel that you have made some progress in your spiritual life . |
| 23 | The appropriate response is to set up ways to manage the resistance productively and to ensure that its effects further the organization 's progress in its journey from here to there . |
| 24 | But he appears to reject eclecticism as an evaluative principle as well and to argue that pedagogic practice must be the application of a single theory of language acquisition , namely his own . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 26 | Specifically , it will allow chemists , particularly those from developing countries , to carry out short term studies in well-established scientific centres abroad and to learn and use techniques not accessible to them in their own country . |
| 27 | In 1667 the Marquess of Worcester , as Constable of St Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean , was ordered to revive the Forest courts there and to see that the Forest laws were obeyed : their discontinuance had brought about ‘ great destruction of timber and retardment of its future growth ’ . |
| 28 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |