Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parsons recognizes that in Western industrial society ‘ There will be certain tendencies to arrogance on the part of some winners and to resentment and to a ‘ sour grapes ’ attitude on the part of some losers ' . |
| 2 | For further details and to book contact . |
| 3 | For further details and to book , contact , . |
| 4 | Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . |
| 5 | It has a strong emphasis on specific objectives ( related to a number of vocational choices to be made by the students themselves ) , to cross-curricular skills and to profile-reporting on progress . |
| 6 | In the same way , workers , committed to the abolition of national States and to internationalism , might ally , to overthrow the Tsar , with national movements dedicated to the creation of new national States . |
| 7 | Hence it was decided to remove this ceiling and its supporting joists and to resite it at a higher level . |
| 8 | Aware of the continuity of German history and bearing in mind the special responsibility arising from our past for a democratic development in Germany committed to respect for human rights and to peace , |
| 9 | In 1957 Jean Floud , A. H. Halsey , and F. M. Martin in their Social Class and Educational Opportunity gave a new impetus both to the study of these themes and to action upon them . |
| 10 | ( ii ) National liberation was thus a reaction both to the political domination of the Great Powers and to integration into a wider capitalist system ( the two were not always distinguishable ) . |
| 11 | The 1991 agreement remained subject to the finalization of many details and to approval by a referendum within Nunavut scheduled for March 16 , 1992 . |
| 12 | Better-funded and targeted promotion is fundamental , but promotion must be linked to our transport policies , to infrastructure , development and environmental requirements and to language and skills training . |
| 13 | The Emperor submits to great fasts and to flagellation . ’ |
| 14 | At a press conference to publicise the study , Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald , assistant head of the BMA 's professional division , announced that the BMA would be writing to all councils and to Education Secretary Kenneth Clark to encourage a no-smoking policy . |
| 15 | Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure . |
| 16 | For more details and to book , contact . |
| 17 | Reports filtered out of the latest MacWorld in San Francisco about an Apple Computer Inc project , code named Cat in the Hat , that aims to port the Apple ToolBox , Apple 's crown jewels , the source of the Mac interface , over to IBM Corp 's AIX in six months , to Hewlett-Packard Co HP-UX in nine months and to Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines after that . |
| 18 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 19 | It is , however , important that any new work should not simply rehearse those aspects and issues about which we now have considerable data , but should contribute to ongoing debates and to development of the interface between professional practice and informal carers . |
| 20 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 21 | In Japan the relationship of the individual to other individuals and to society at large is still governed largely by his or her membership of various groups . |
| 22 | The development of communicative competence and the extent , and the limits of the applicability of English for specific purposes to young learners and to school settings . |
| 23 | In France , the nearest equivalent to social services departments has developed within their structures the ‘ circonscription de service social ’ , a co-ordinating and enabling mechanism for linking departments to other agencies and to community groups . |
| 24 | It would be wise in this modern day and age , to set up a system within your office whereby you monitor every file , so that your daily work is not simply a question of responding to incoming post and phone calls , but also a task of initiating approaches to clients and to other firms and to estate agents . |
| 25 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |