Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Although history is deterministic there is still the need for workers to unite and act and accept the invitation to join in the great drama of history .
2 DEC will sell , install and service the Auspex servers .
3 The inclusion of Silk Protein helps maintain the natural water balance to protect , condition and restore the elasticity of hair .
4 To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through !
5 Thus , to raise the potential value of the information being processed using activities beyond Taylor 's Stage 1 ( i.e. those in his Stage 2 ( analysing processes ) , or his Stage 3 ( judgemental processes ) , or his Stage 4 ( decision processes ) ) , the people involved must know and understand the detailed decision-making situation wherein the information will eventually be used .
6 For instance , we must know and understand the total cost structure in multi-product businesses from raw materials through to the customer .
7 But how can we know and respect the other ?
8 Here you must know and use the real facts of police work .
9 If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small .
10 Wearing his environmental manager 's hat , Mike 's responsibilities are to monitor , audit and minimise the environmental impact of the business .
11 I remind the House that the United Kingdom and other developed countries of Europe must assist and support the developing economies , especially in eastern Europe , to ensure that people will want to stay and strengthen those economies themselves .
12 All Leeds can do at the moment is keep winning the games we should win and clock the away victories , so that when the Uniteds of this world come along we wo n't be psyched out of beating them .
13 An experiment could be conducted by taking a largish group of electors , splitting them into two at random , telling half that the polls indicated one candidate would win and telling the other half that they showed a rival would win .
14 But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years .
15 The proposed directive goes to the European Parliament for comment and amendment , where the lobbyist will brief and advise the MEPs .
16 In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May .
17 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds launched the appeal to help buy and manage the 625acre island .
18 Really , one should buy and read the book itself instead of reading about it . ’
19 He kept pestering the others about what is known as " account trading " ( where one can buy and sell the same stock within a two week period , hoping that the stock price will have risen ) .
20 The feedback currently available indicates that the numbers of women reading engineering have increased to 15% ( from 7.8% in 1982–83 ) , but much more still remains to be done and industry 's most pressing problem in the 1990s will be to attract , recruit and retain the high calibre of technologically literate young people they will need .
21 There may be a handful of key employees brought in by that company to the location to establish the plant erm and to erm recruit and run the work force but my experience of these inquiries and prospective inquiries is that generally speaking they are looking to recruit labour locally and so this is not a housing generator type of development .
22 ‘ While every political party will recognise and promote the talent within its own party , it 's just as important to recognise talent and experience elsewhere .
23 If alien DNA enters a cell — by transformation or as a bacteriophage , for example — E. coli can recognise and destroy the unwanted DNA using restriction enzymes .
24 A protein magic bullet can be linked to a toxic agent and , when introduced into the body , it will act as a ‘ homing missile ’ that can recognise and destroy the tumour with the toxic agent it carries .
25 Faintly , in some remote crevice of her mind , Maria could recognise and acknowledge the generosity inherent in Luke 's question , but there was no place for gratitude among her present emotions .
26 Optionally — if you 're feeling mean — the carriage will animate and attack the adventurers if they just stand around for ages wondering what to do next .
27 Immunisation for teenage girls against rubella also reduces the chance that pregnant women will catch and transmit the infection to their unborn children , with possible resultant brain damage ; and biochemical screening of pregnant women to detect phenylketonuria enables the condition to be treated promptly in the newborn infant ( Graham , 1977 ) .
28 The OSS forerunner of the CIA — held joint meetings with M16 to hammer out a viable response , and Roosevelt was advised to cook up some scheme with his ‘ Former Naval Person ’ friend across the water suggesting that Hitler 's real hope was to bring about a peace in Europe so that he could attack and destroy the US and her interests .
29 The period also witnessed a particularly determined use of political methods in industrial affairs , thus making available for investigation the ability of the emerging shop-floor ‘ custom and practice ’ to absorb , routinise and limit the effects of outside interventions .
30 President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces .
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