Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 2 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 3 | There were also plans to privatize the steel industry and to sell off majority or minority shareholdings in state-owned cement , food processing , pulp , mining and chemical concerns . |
| 4 | Attempts by Irish women , lesbian and heterosexual , to voice our oppression and to struggle for support were largely ignored . |
| 5 | You can reckon to need twenty to support a 100-yard net , allowing a few spares to be on the safe side and to allow for breakage . |
| 6 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 7 | It must also be pointed out that the Sub-Group is a sub-group of Management Group , and its functions are to advise Management and to put into effect Management policy on computing issues . |
| 8 | So that 's the first rule of good negotiating : learn to master the art of listening and to feel at home with silence . |
| 9 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 10 | It aims to promote community broadcasting and to press for legislation . |
| 11 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 12 | In a demanding situation , as thus defined , people inevitably begin to experience overload and to feel under pressure . |
| 13 | Still , that 's what we all go for is n't it , to manfully plough through two foot deep mudholes in our be-trainered feet , to boldly stand in the pouring rain clad in only a T-shirt and to remain under canvas for three days whilst simultaneously holding both the tent and a beer can in a force nine gale ! |
| 14 | In this , an authoritarian voice addresses the would-be meditator in a series of injunctions to remember the various events in the Passion story and to pray for mercy . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 16 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 17 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 18 | Erm by nineteen forty eight no in in nineteen forty seven with the rise of absolute egalitarianism , the policy of narrowing its base had helped them to erm get the peasant support and to get into power but that was no longer necessary erm and the radicalization of land reform it appears had been based upon false premises which had created problems in the countryside and the Party . |
| 19 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 20 | Both of these characteristics will be overcome as experience of the new system grows , as colleges meet to share experience and to co-operate in quality assurance and as External Course Assessors provide support and feedback to centres . |
| 21 | It would be arrogant foolishness to ignore that experience and to start from scratch designing a stringing by ear . |
| 22 | It is likely that many follow-up meetings will need to be held after the initial announcement is made to communicate progress and to deal with employee problems as they occur . |
| 23 | The first stage of this argument , however , is to demonstrate the importance of regional and local perspectives on population and to indicate by reference of the lack of official statistics on local populations and migration , how little attention is currently paid by central government to these questions . |
| 24 | A coalition of opposition parties — the Democratic Movement for Renewal and Evolution in Africa — called on President André Kolingba to announce by Sept. 8 the holding of a national conference and to meet with opposition leaders . |
| 25 | Since then I have found other uses for it in my knitting room such as to anchor down that very important latch tool and to put in place the little basin on the weighing machine which tends to flop off when I go to weigh a heavy jumper . |
| 26 | That evening , some 400 guests and members of the University gathered in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building to hear the Vice-Chancellor and the Chairman of Council , Mrs Stella Clarke , introduce the Campaign for Resource to the Bristol community and to listen to Sir Michael Angus explain why he supported the University and had agreed to lead the Campaign . |
| 27 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 28 | However , there are a number of studies which do suggest that socio-economic characteristics are related to morbidity and to access to health services . |
| 29 | Major variations in formulation only occur in levels of alkalinity to deal with differing soil load expectations , the proportion and type of sequestrants , to balance the alkalinity and to cope with water hardness and the inclusion of minor ingredients . |
| 30 | She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home . |