Example sentences of "[adj] and [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennie told Katharine to be aware of this and to correct any fault as necessary . |
| 2 | At the extraordinary congress in December the 2,000 delegates had adopted a programme which committed the Socialist Party to act as a " barrier to the right and extreme-right and to pursue economic modernization , social justice , and the construction of Europe " . |
| 3 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 4 | In August ( immediately prior to Suharto 's National Day speech ) a group of prominent Indonesians , including many of the original " Petition of 50 " , had issued a public demand to Suharto to stand down in 1993 and to permit greater democracy . |
| 5 | One of the last actions of the outgoing Congress ( I ) government was to release Mann on Dec. 2 and to drop all conspiracy charges against him . |
| 6 | You can also use it to see how cells are related to one another and to discover circular references . |
| 7 | Dong and Hoc ran panting along the adjacent ranks allotted to them , calling out frequently to encourage one another and to check each other 's progress . |
| 8 | There is pressure from the society being served — to respond this way and that ; there is pressure from employers ; and there is the pressure from within — to be an individual and to express individual tastes and views . |
| 9 | Following talks with party president Rajiv Gandhi on Jan. 23-24 in New Delhi , at which Pawar 's offer of resignation was rejected , the Maharashtra cabinet was expanded by 11 to 33 in order to make it more broad-based and to end intra-party squabbles . |
| 10 | Attention to the environment in terms of appropriate lighting , both overall and to meet individual needs , and the provision of clear , well-presented learning materials should be helpful to these pupils as well as to those who have more severe visual defects . |
| 11 | Their overseas affiliates tend to be highly autonomous and to remit small proportions of their profits to the parent . |
| 12 | Centres are advised to forward schemes to HCIMA as early as possible and to allow 10 weeks for the moderation process ( in order to allow for resubmissions ) . |
| 13 | For practical and economic reasons , therefore and in general , the main objective of systematic cleaning will be to reduce the use of manual labour as far as possible and to substitute other forms of energy mainly chemical . |
| 14 | It is better to keep things as simple as possible and to avoid mere gimmickry . |
| 15 | When concerned with denudation chronology it is necessary to utilize as much information as possible and to avoid conceptual approaches which are too constraining . |
| 16 | On Sept. 12 ESA officials announced that its new Pegasus rocket , designed to be air-launched and to carry small satellites into orbit , would undergo its first flight test in the USA the following week . |
| 17 | The cycle is repetitive : abandoned children of irresponsible fathers , women forced by circumstances to be strong and to take sole responsibility for their children . |
| 18 | He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked . |
| 19 | Remedies can be given both pre-operatively and post-operatively to speed up healing and to counteract any effects of anxiety , shock and the anaesthetic . |
| 20 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 21 | In a similar vein , Stuart Holland noted that ‘ it takes time to win the intellectual appreciation by some trade unionists that these policies would be useful and to achieve that gut reaction by trade unionists that they are absolutely essential . |
| 22 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 23 | On this political front , the British line was assailed by federalists for seeking to wipe out all the advances made since 1950 and to freeze Western Europe in the more primitive mould of the Council of Europe . |
| 24 | He came to believe that in order to help the poor and to achieve social harmony both the state and charity should work to improve living and working conditions . |
| 25 | Many individuals , once they leave school , do too little exercise to keep healthy and to maintain good weight control . |
| 26 | To describe the experiences of 10 fundholding practices in the Northern region during 1991–2 and to elicit subjective assessments of the impact of their change in status on practice management and patient care . |
| 27 | [ The ] function of [ the criminal law ] , as we see it , is to preserve public order and decency , to protect the citizen from what is offensive and injurious and to provide sufficient safeguards against exploitation or corruption of others , particularly those who are specially vulnerable because they are young , weak in body or mind or inexperienced … |
| 28 | However it must be emphasized that the primary aims of the evaluation were to review the architectural assumptions outlined in Chapters 2 and 3 and to guide further research . |
| 29 | Experimental support for the thrifty genotype comes from work in rodents showing that strains susceptible to obesity and diabetes have lower metabolic rates , defective thermoregulatory mechanisms , and an enhanced ability to store food as fat and to survive prolonged fasting . |
| 30 | Perhaps LIMB has simply given librarians the opportunity to replicate what is available and to produce improved guides more quickly , but widespread duplication is still common . |