Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measures of family background and ability can then be used to control the different intakes to schools and thus to estimate differences in the effectiveness of schools with respect to the outcome measures listed above . |
| 2 | Thus the companies ' approach to investment has been to ensure that there is sufficient availability of short-term assets to meet unforeseen contingencies and then to maximise holdings of long-dated , higher-yielding assets . |
| 3 | This approach , which had earlier been used in relation to other fields such as architecture ( Knowles , 1974 ) embraces population ecology , system ecology , the city as a habitat , and then energy and material transfer in cities are used to highlight spatial contrasts within the city and between cities and also to differentiate cities from rural environments . |
| 4 | Subordinate classes are granted a degree of power to make meanings , to negotiate meanings and even to reject meanings . |
| 5 | The first step is to define and analyse the problems and then to set objectives to be achieved . |
| 6 | These were people who saw local opportunities to improve transport for fuel , raw materials and goods and so to make profits for themselves . |
| 7 | It is reluctant to accommodate G-proteins and thus to bring information in from the outside . |
| 8 | By using clear and succinct language , the review aims to remove the mystique which surrounds many of these terms and thus to aid discussion between exporters and their professional advisers and to show that a working familiarity is open to all . |
| 9 | • Corporate officers and managers of multinational companies who are highly sensitive to their interest and exchange-rate exposures and thus to risk management issues , |
| 10 | I just consider it a privilege to be answering the phones and sometimes to help people . |
| 11 | At the Health Complexes they would be distributed to the inpatient and outpatient departments and also to field workers whose job it was to distribute the packets to anyone who required them in his/her village . |
| 12 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 13 | The committee also called on the government to formulate long-term fuel-pricing objectives in order to encourage industry to invest in energy-saving measures and thereby to reduce emissions . |
| 14 | In the last quarter of the eighteenth century British population hit the critical rate of growth squarely in the middle , slow enough to maintain , or even slightly improve real wages and yet to encourage labour saving innovation , fast enough to keep down labour costs and yet to expand aggregate demand for food and mass consumer goods . |
| 15 | The parries in opposition to Government now decided to infiltrate the police and also to influence government servants . |
| 16 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 17 | They had been to the Maxwells ' for drinks and afterwards to see Shaw 's Saint Joan . |
| 18 | The Animal Care Trust — ACT — supports the College by raising urgently needed funds to ensure high standards of facilities are maintained , to extend , modernise and equip the RVC 's three hospitals and also to provide endowment for professional staff . |
| 19 | Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ? |
| 20 | It was during the 1940s that parishioners at the cathedral held rummage sales , whist drives , sales of work , raffles and soon to raise funds to buy ground in Ditherington , to the north of Shrewsbury , for a church for the parishioners living there . |
| 21 | Existing survey data is used to estimate responses between demographic and economic factors and also to summarize changes in various descriptions of economic inequality in successive cross-sectional household surveys in Britain . |
| 22 | She uses her silk to line the walls and also to bind particles of soil together into a circular lid three-quarters of an inch across . |
| 23 | To be a Socialist class party is to encourage revolutionaries and therefore to breed reaction , which is Fascism . |