Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the newer bodies have been formed specifically to develop and implement occupational standards for their sector and , as might be expected , these bodies have established different ways of undertaking this key task . |
| 2 | On LIFFE , for example , shares are used chiefly to create and transfer floor trading rights or " seats " . |
| 3 | NAG has been used extensively to identify and monitor potentially nephrotoxic drugs , its excretion increases in a dose dependent manner following the ingestion of aspirin and sodium salicylate and high concentrations are found in patients with established analgesic nephropathy . |
| 4 | The lance would have been used both to stab and as a weapon from throwing or as a lance on horseback . |
| 5 | They have been known both to help and to hurt the desert people . |
| 6 | A steering group had been brought together to advise and support the development of the project , but all the members were non-disabled professionals from a number of organisations including social services departments , the health authority and voluntary organisations . |
| 7 | And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’ |
| 8 | By focusing on a single service , an appliance can be made easier to use and can be optimised for performance . |
| 9 | By focusing on a single service , an appliance can be made easier to use and can be optimised for performance . |
| 10 | Morrison 's solicitor commented that the decision was ‘ outrageous ’ , and that an appeal would be lodged immediately to try and save the two-and-a-half-year-old dog . |
| 11 | The objective of this research is to produce PROBS , a shorthand notation which can be used economically to record and analyse both the interpersonal and intrapersonal intellectual transactions which take place in classrooms where problem solving is taught . |
| 12 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 13 | A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem . |
| 14 | At once both prisoners were made forcibly to kneel and lower their heads . |
| 15 | Several methods were used both to promote and to check on data quality . |
| 16 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 17 | They were despatched exactly to schedule and from that date further deliveries were also made exactly to programme . |
| 18 | Further , in the case of Australia , employers ' associations were established partly to counter and present a united front against the rapid expansion of trade unions ( Ford , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | At first instance the three parties were held equally to blame and the plaintiff 's damages were therefore reduced by one-third . |
| 20 | Washing is prescribed both to prevent and sterilize infection . |
| 21 | It is presented primarily to inform and stimulate debate and it therefore adopts a style which is unusual in this journal . |
| 22 | Action in the majority of adventure stories is seen both to affect and to be affected by character but in the end it is action that has the final word , in the romantic happy ending in which the heroism of man is affirmed . |
| 23 | In Devon wheat removed from the granaries of farmers was carried directly to market and " sold openly from four to five shillings a bushel " after which the crowd returned both the money and the empty sacks to the farmers . |
| 24 | A significant focus for the controversy was the theatre , which , like the transvestite , was seen both to epitomize and to promote contemporary forces of disruption in and through its involvement with cross-dressing . |
| 25 | Within this year 's operational costs , some £62 million was set aside to reshape and restructure AEA to enable us to develop as a successful commercial business . |