Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Davidge could not at that time be more specific , he observed , ‘ the appointment of Sir Anthony is intended to stimulate discussion and to help us rexamine all existing and potential services ’ . |
| 2 | Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty . |
| 3 | The new government 's economic programme , approved by the National People 's Assembly on Sept. 30 , 1989 , was designed to combat inflation and to reform economic management and agriculture . |
| 4 | The first workship is designed to stimulate ideas and to discuss the craft of radio writing . |
| 5 | It would be possible to institute a ‘ retail price index minus x ’ formula , designed to encourage efficiency and to ensure that productivity gains are passed on to the consumer . |
| 6 | The move is not designed to penalise smokers or to force them to change . |
| 7 | The plan ‘ is designed to create disorder and to impede the smooth transfer of power , so it is not a question of democracy , ’ Li said in his annual work report at the opening session of Congress in Peking . |
| 8 | They were designed to create disorder and to impede the smooth transfer of power . |
| 9 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 10 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath , to save life or to destroy it ( Mark 3:4 ; Luke 14:3 ) . |
| 11 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath ; to save life or to kill ? |
| 12 | The loans constituted the core of an 18-month economic stabilization programme designed to reduce inflation and to ease the balance of payments deficit . |
| 13 | It is designed to protect children and to ensure that care is taken in making appointments to any post which involves contact with children . |
| 14 | Every third week , the girls were permitted to have visitors or to leave the premises for the weekend . |
| 15 | The research aims to provide solid evidence about how European governments have responded to cable television and to investigate whether a distinctive European regulatory policy is emerging . |
| 16 | The PSSRU model of case management was designed to improve assessment and to facilitate creativity in resource management . |
| 17 | The measures are designed to improve competitiveness and to help ensure the businesses within Chemicals are in a strong position to take advantage of the eventual upturn in the market . |
| 18 | In Scandinavia and North America it is rare for young people with severe disabilities to be expected to enter employment and to live independently until after education and training up to the early twenties . |
| 19 | Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The minister , Mr Juan Sourrouille , had struggled to contain inflation and to put the government 's finances in touch with something like reality . |
| 22 | A whole succession of prairie branches was built to develop settlement and to tap the furthest reaches of the grain-growing areas . |
| 23 | The PAC reported that the government had agreed to disband CODESA and to establish a different negotiating forum . |
| 24 | He explains how the mathematical tools of congruence , transformation , invariance and groups are used to define symmetry and to classify its variety . |
| 25 | For the dialogue needed to reveal character there must be two people and in many scenes on the journey through Europe two questers are needed to enhance tension and to shape events plausibly . |
| 26 | Force , which had long been used to conquer territory and to gain markets and raw materials , could no longer be used for these purposes . |
| 27 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 28 | His opponents , massed in Cable Street , were determined that he should not pass , and 6,000 police were needed to keep order and to make an attempt at clearing the way . |
| 29 | If the prime task of the teacher is to help children acquire nationally agreed learning skills and to deepen their understanding of the concepts which underpin particular academic disciplines , then the way subject matter is presented and used in the classroom requires to be reappraised . |
| 30 | First , about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings . |