Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 2 | In the Summer Term of 1989 the LEA published and distributed a short booklet ( Leeds City Council 1989e ) which was ‘ intended to help parents to appreciate what constitutes the best primary school practice and also to highlight aspects of education that the Authority wishes to promote ’ . |
| 3 | Allowing then that international law , at least at present , sets out to control force and therefore to preserve peace , those who would deny its status as law can point to its failure in this respect . |
| 4 | Gaveston was the favourite of a Prince of the Blood and even to draw steel in the Prince of Wales ' presence could be construed as treason . |
| 5 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 6 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 7 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 8 | I wanted to go to my friend 's on the coast and then to join Felipe . |
| 9 | We need not only to be able to swim in a sea of uncertainty but also to resist panic when we get out of our depth . |
| 10 | The aim is not to increase the community nurses ' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team . |
| 11 | 1 It is much more effective to carry out media relations activities within the framework of a detailed plan than simply to publicise events as they happen and haphazardly respond to media enquiries . |
| 12 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 13 | Finally , to what extent is the harmonizing measure to pre-empt national law and thus to exclude conflict of laws issues ? |
| 14 | ‘ And though , strictly speaking , they are only allowed in the garden , the children tend to seep into the pub and even to fetch drinks for their parents . |
| 15 | These and other rules are designed ( amongst other things ) to guarantee bank solvency and therefore to protect depositors and indeed to maintain a stable monetary system . |
| 16 | 2 Selected senior and middle management and staff of their parent company who will be needed to manufacture vital components for the new equipment and also to support efforts to raise new finance for further research and development . |
| 17 | ‘ They did n't mean to hurt poor Tom , it was just a silly old accident , ’ I said , partly to comfort the child and partly to prevent Richard making an angry scene in front of him . |
| 18 | We have also taken action at home and abroad to improve conservation , and will continue to do so . |
| 19 | You can use these to move around the spreadsheet and even to select functions using its Function Assistant but even more exciting are the new features that are introduced by icons . |
| 20 | In any case the State Department was uncertain about the nature of the Vietminh 's communist connections — ‘ possibly in indirect touch with Moscow and direct touch with Yenan ’ — and French influence was reckoned to be important not only as an antidote to Soviet influence but also to protect Vietnam and Southeast Asia from ‘ future Chinese imperialism ’ . |
| 21 | In short , wage inflation operates not only to divert resources from investment in the country 's manufacturing capacity but also to make borrowing and exporting more and more difficult . |
| 22 | And here she stayed on public display until 1868 when it was decided not only to close the museum but also to lay Hannah Beswick to rest . |
| 23 | Such an exercise will serve not only to sensitize the American reader to the distinctive features of the British polity but also to make readers more aware of the features of their own polity . |
| 24 | Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ . |
| 25 | A representative national committee for religious education and welfare was set up to establish youth clubs , organise correspondence classes , distribute literature and generally to keep contact with refugee children in Christian homes , offering Jewish hospitality at times of festival or fast and preparing boys for Bar Mitzvah . |
| 26 | Many hearing-aids have devices to restrict the loudness received by the aid user and also to provide tone selection , but there are still aid users who find that sound volume must be reduced in noisy circumstances . |
| 27 | Bacteria then work on the nitrates converting them firstly to nitrous oxide and then to free nitrogen gas . |
| 28 | We wish to see all pupils having the opportunity to study balanced science as 20 per cent of the curriculum and also to include technology as a core subject . |
| 29 | Radon has been used to detect uranium mineralisation and also to locate faults which may control mineral deposition . |
| 30 | Therefore , he needed third place or better to hurdle Norman 's total of $1,165,477 . |