Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique of interpreting a duty as coupled with a discretion , although strictly illogical ( how can a duty be discretionary ? ) , is a useful device to enable courts to keep out of contentious areas . |
| 2 | Although these mechanisms may provide short-term micro-level benefits , they do not encourage the development of an independent organisation with its own ideology , which would then be in a position to spearhead change to bring about real and long-lasting improvements . |
| 3 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 4 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 5 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 6 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 7 | Despite a concerted Government-initiated campaign to encourage farmers to clean up their act , the number of reported cases of pollution has risen to record levels . |
| 8 | The government has introduced several schemes to encourage farmers to plant up land . |
| 9 | ( And failure to encourage infants to grow up and experience their own separateness and uniqueness is as much a betrayal of the concept of self as is the abandonment of support and pleasure in their developing maturity . ) |
| 10 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 11 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 12 | Presumably that 's to encourage people to turn up instead of piling down the pub to watch it on sky tv . |
| 13 | This was to encourage people to work through until their department moved and also so that R.S. left the impression of being a caring employer with those who chose redundancy . |
| 14 | But with the growing ferocity of the Delhi heat it became increasingly easy to find excuses to put off ever leaving the house at all . |
| 15 | So , in 1931 , he began to train teachers to carry on his work ; this school was set up in his home at 16 Ashley Place in London SW1 and it continued up to his death in October 1955 . |
| 16 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 17 | The need to supplement the family income motivates some parents to encourage children to go out and earn a wage as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Far too much time and energy go into separating combatants , settling differences and trying to encourage children to get on together . |
| 19 | It is also possible to obtain cover to pay off the mortgage on the diagnosis of certain critical illnesses . |
| 20 | However , effectiveness does depend on managers ' ability to use the power they have to encourage others to join in . |
| 21 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 22 | Answer guide : Needs identified in the text are the need for information to enable management to carry out its duties and responsibilities in terms of stewardship , planning , control and decision making . |
| 23 | Also , since union officials concentrated their attention upon winning arbitration cases it was left to shop stewards to take up problems such as plant-level dismissals , work assignments and transfers ( Levine , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 25 | For example stress tends to cause leaves to roll up . |
| 26 | Internally it tends to cause wallpaper to lift off , to soften plaster and flake emulsion paint , leaving tidemarks . |
| 27 | Work still needs to be done to establish the severity , intensity , and frequency of physical abuse to enable workers to carry out preventive work and target resources appropriately |
| 28 | Work still needs to be done to establish the severity , intensity , and frequency of physical abuse to enable workers to carry out preventive work and target resources appropriately . |
| 29 | These grey areas show the need for clear procedural guidance for staff , carefully thought out training courses from SSDs , and extensive links between social services and health authorities to enable workers to weigh up the needs of the child , parental concerns , and the real risk of transmission to others . |
| 30 | Responses have to be shared , first , in the relative safety of small numbers in order to enable participants to build up confidence in coping with the frequently painful nature of talk about disruption . |