Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others looked back further in time , perhaps to the late-Victorian era , with the long-term failure to invest , to engage in industrial or technical training , to develop new industries , or perhaps to create an industrial or business-minded culture at all . |
| 2 | As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . |
| 3 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 4 | He 'd had Ribena with ice in it himself , and he could remember now , quite distinctly , thinking how horrible it must be for Kate , not to have a father , nor ever to have an occasion like this . |
| 5 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 6 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 7 | They are also charged that on or before Tuesday , March 2 , they conspired at Walford Road and elsewhere to cause an explosion in the UK and with possessing a ‘ quantity of Semtex ’ at the Stoke Newington flat . |
| 8 | Where blood was shed , the secular courts of the land came more and more to take an interest . |
| 9 | It is our usual practice to ask for a payment in advance of costs and thereafter to submit an interim bill every six months . |
| 10 | Institute regulations require that certificates for new members are presented at Divisional Meetings ( with the exception of members overseas ) , to enable them to meet socially and hopefully to take an active part in Divisional affairs . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the Summer term it 's common practice in most schools to invite the parents of the new intake of children to visit the school to explain the routines and organisation , to give them a chance to meet the teachers and also to provide an opportunity for them to share any concerns they might have . |
| 12 | In 1816 , the logical extension of this waterway to join the waters of the Wey Navigation , about 26km ( 16miles ) to the north , and hence to establish an inland navigation between London and the English Channel , was completed with the opening of the Wey and Arun Junction Canal , whose main sponsor was again the second Lord Egremont . |
| 13 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 14 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
| 15 | It should also be remembered that the Inland Revenue officers are always willing to give advice , and even to assist an elderly person with the completion of their income-tax return if necessary . |
| 16 | The vast majority of her class was able to state a rule in words and then to generate an algebraic formula . |
| 17 | If a decision about a document or as to some point of evidence is made the right course , having put the relevant argument , is to accept the ruling and then to consider an appeal should circumstances so demand . |
| 18 | Ifor came up now and then to keep an eye on him . |
| 19 | When Roosevelt had been persuaded by the British , in July 1942 , to postpone a direct invasion of Western Europe and instead to prepare an invasion of North Africa , one of his conditions had been that Free France should be excluded . |
| 20 | Therefore it makes sense both aesthetically and financially to adopt an installation and maintenance service . |
| 21 | However , it 's much quicker and easier to use an all-in-one paint like Hammerite which you brush on straight over the rust . |
| 22 | You will be asked to complete an application form and subsequently to attend an ACET training course one evening a week for six weeks . |
| 23 | Not intended to be an in-depth study , but rather to present an interesting view of Fighter Command with a ‘ what it was like ’ aspect , brought out through the input of famous veterans of the force . |
| 24 | She lifted her fist again but only to push an insect away . |
| 25 | Offers duly came in , but always to play an extension of Susan Foreman . |
| 26 | The authority will not only need to provide opportunities for development in schools in the form of in-service training opportunities and ‘ non-contract ’ periods but also to anticipate an adverse reaction from schools who believe that the outward referral of their pupils is the only acceptable solution to their troubles . |
| 27 | What makes the researcher different is that the purpose of making these observations is not only to become a member of the group but also to write an account of its way of life . |
| 28 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 29 | The police were needed not only to combat crime , but also to provide an alternative to the army in suppressing serious public disorder . |
| 30 | This is not only because of the need for a contractor to make money but also to achieve an acceptable cash flow and , ideally , to obtain more work from the same client in the future . |