Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be staying with a number of Japanese families so will have to learn how to communicate and become less of a gaijin ( foreigner ) , ’ he says . |
| 2 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |
| 3 | It may be very hard to do so , but sharing feelings is important and helps us to communicate and understand one another . |
| 4 | There is an obvious need for a national network to be established which would publicise the families ' needs and allow prisoners ' partners to communicate and support each other . |
| 5 | Yet in spite of this , we all need to communicate and to get some general understanding of each other and of the world we live in . |
| 6 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 7 | Guinness has an arrangement with Lion Nathan to brew and distribute Draught Guinness and to package Guinness Original in New Zealand . |
| 8 | However , others have tried to modify and develop some of the early functionalist ideas , for instance in the examination of the development of paid work among married women . |
| 9 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 10 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 11 | People wo n't understand and they 'll begin to worry and get afraid . |
| 12 | For anyone who wants to understand the meaning of [ such a ] discourse , there is no other solution but to practise it oneself , to become one 's own informant … and to try and make explicit what one finds unstatable in oneself . |
| 13 | There 's a lot we can do , I think , to help the community in a wider sense , and I see that as one of the key elements of my work , to try and make that work . |
| 14 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 15 | Our task is to try and make sure that two and two come out at five and the members get a better deal from the new union than they got from either of the amalgamating unions . |
| 16 | We need to try and make sure from the grass roots level up , we have involvement . |
| 17 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
| 18 | We 'll just have to try and make sure they do n't meet . ’ |
| 19 | So we have to do what we can to try and make sure it survives . |
| 20 | Two teams of computer specialists are now at work , one to try and make sure the department 's existing system can cope , the second to have a new computer system at work from 1 January next year . |
| 21 | I 've got to try and make sure the petrol lasts till the Texaco garage |
| 22 | No , but it 's up to the every individual to try and make sure that they do get that level of service . |
| 23 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 24 | And obviously we are troubled at the experience in America on cocaine and want to try and make sure that we do n't get that kind of problem in the U K. |
| 25 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 26 | And when the muttered reply , ‘ He 's … he 's gone on a trip to try and make some money so we could … could get married , ’ came from her shoulder , she pushed Jessie upwards , saying , ‘ Oh my God ! ’ |
| 27 | The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them . |
| 28 | yes , we we 've got to look at this in in in in the assessment er procedures as well but we 've go we 've got to try and link this up with er the the the computer work that we 're doing erm we we 've got I I I think really we we should have possibly a reasonably hefty session one evening next week to say right , how are we going to put this into practice ? |
| 29 | It 's not worthy , Councillor to try and link trivial trivial politics to score points , to score points , to score points , to score points to score points at the attacks on people with disabilities , in the trivial way that you did because you could n't remember the policy . |
| 30 | It did n't show too badly when he finished the race with several layers of clothing on to try and retain some body heat in the cold driving rain . |