Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] and [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others .
2 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 .
3 The ( Moslem ) Democratic Action Party ( SDA ) , led by Izetbegovic , on March 25 called on all citizens to reject the division of the republic along ethnic lines alone and to accept the concept of a unitary state .
4 It is important to write these plans down and to keep them under review .
5 I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period .
9 By developing high quality , exciting and unbiased educational materials we aim to encourage children to analyse environmental issues carefully and to understand the options available for protecting the environment , ’ explains corporate fundraiser , Elizabeth Walker .
10 Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country .
11 We tend to view ourselves as physical beings only and to deny that we have anything in the way of a soul or spirit .
12 Duty and intake systems to detect incipient problems early and to provide a rapid response .
13 An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential .
14 In January 1986 , President Reagan had signed a secret directive — ‘ They can run , but they ca n't hide ’ — instructing the octopus to identify terrorists responsible for crimes against American citizens abroad and to bring them to justice in US courts .
15 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 .
16 They set out to peak for this particular match , both to erase from their minds the upset in London two years ago and to prove they could manage a good performance after several indifferent ones .
17 SCO has now completed four quarters profitably and to plan said Michels ‘ as if we were public ’ .
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