Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 2 | The trend towards tighter state budgets could be exploited to reduce the number of students in some over populated subjects and also to cut back the resources of non-productive researchers . |
| 3 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 4 | Mr. Belville is after to come to town to settle matters and then to go down to her where they are to live as man and wife . |
| 5 | And in a nut shell , it is our case , we say the police , what the police did was reasonable in the circumstances and indeed to go any further and say what they did was necessary in the circumstances . |
| 6 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 7 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 8 | IBM has got to the point where it has baptised the concept of the RS/6000 Cluster Service Offering , but a twist in DEC 's plan is to enable alien workstations to be included in the cluster — according to Electronic News , it conceives of creating clusters of Alpha-based workstations within one to two years and then to move on to embracing alien machines , with the benefit that stations could be used as stand-alone units when no parallel work was running . |
| 9 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 10 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 11 | However , breeders have been taking steps to reduce calving problems and also to breed longer , taller animals . |
| 12 | As a result , the players were sent ahead to the various tournament sites to give clinics to members and generally to whip up interest . |
| 13 | The sitting patient was asked to blow into a mouthpiece connected to a manometer held at 40 mm Hg pressure for 15 seconds and then to breathe normally . |
| 14 | So one seems able to conclude that some particular aspects of the overall optimal strategy are easier to understand than others and easier to understand earlier than others . |
| 15 | They ordered the young women to remove their upper garments and then to bend forward until their foreheads touched the cold sand . |
| 16 | The purpose of the CIO was to organize workers in the mass production industries and particularly to bring in unskilled workers , previously without unions . |
| 17 | 5.17.3 to remove all signs erected by the Tenant in upon or near the Premises and immediately to make good any damage caused by such removal It is advisable ( at least for the purpose of this clause ) for the tenant to ensure that the term includes any period of holding over or continuation of the contractual term ( as it does in this lease by virtue of clause 3.8 ) although it must be considered highly unlikely that the tenant would be forced to yield up the premises to the landlord during a continuation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 18 | The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary . |
| 19 | Men who , since sunrise this morning , had fought in Siward 's first battle and had ridden thirty miles and more to arrive here , with two further skirmishes . |
| 20 | Clearly , then , the primary need when dealing with the information issue is to establish clearly what various staff need to do their jobs and then to see how to provide this more limited selection of information in a form that is easily available and accessible . |