Example sentences of "[is] [verb] and [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best and most reliable way to get good information — there is no comparison — is to go and see roses actually growing . |
| 2 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 3 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
| 4 | He 's forgotten what it is to sit and hold hands among the buttercups . |
| 5 | The ultimate purposes of the Monteith Library Program is to stimulate and guide students in developing sophisticated understanding of the library and increasing competence in its use . |
| 6 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 7 | It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation . |
| 8 | Yep , well , I mean the objective of fire prevention is to , is to try and make places safer and to alert people to erm to the risks and dangers of fire , before it happens , that that 's , the objective is to er try and stop fires happening . |
| 9 | Erm having considered this , I think that what we 've tried to do in the economic activity projections is to try and estimate job need and to try and balance that with an appropriate level of provision to meet that need . |
| 10 | Labour 's new Scottish leader , George Robertson MP , is to try and encourage rebel Tories to join the fight against local government reform . |
| 11 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 12 | The program 's goal is to encourage and strengthen supplier relationships and improve communication by defining customer — supplier expectations . |
| 13 | ‘ Superstart is to encourage and assist people with technical and manufacturing skills to link with other like-minded people to form thriving businesses which will provide additional employment for others , ’ said Frances Hoare , of Essex TEC . |
| 14 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 15 | The aim of the association is to increase and encourage research into the art of the Iberian Peninsula , also at an institutional level . |
| 16 | The abstract principle of feeding is very simple : it is to find and catch food for yourself , while not being caught as food by another . |
| 17 | Then I told him that our concern is to find and follow God 's pattern ; and that God is strongly at work here , with a strategy more effective than the politicians ' . |
| 18 | Knowledge is understood to consist of facts and concepts combined into hierarchies of rules , the purpose of which is to inform and guide practice so that not only will nursing be more efficient but also professional problems not previously encountered by the nurse can be solved . |
| 19 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 20 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 21 | Its only activity is to receive and pay dividends . |
| 22 | The function of the etheric body is to receive and transmit energy or life-force ( prana ) from the air we breathe . |
| 23 | Based on the East Anglian RAC , its main function is to receive and consider proposals for new courses . |
| 24 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 25 | The process of alignment between the two approaches is likely to be the crucial industrial relations issue of this decade and the purpose of this project is to track and interpret developments along this critical fissure . |
| 26 | The business mission of ICI Paints Europe is to win and keep customers for its range of superior quality surface coatings systems , with customer service as the core value to grow towards a return on net assets approaching 35% by 1993 . |
| 27 | Individuals whose primary activity is to buy and sell animals , for example , will not be eligible to be flat rate farmers ; neither will trainers of animals . |
| 28 | ‘ As in XEU , Alaska is building a good track record and the challenge is to enhance and maintain it.Within BPX , however , the scale of the challenge continues to be very large for everyone in the business . |
| 29 | Competition will be channelled into avenues that benefit the organisation , and one of the major tasks of management is to manage and resolve conflict . |
| 30 | One way of studying the effects of changing agricultural practices on groundwater is to drill and redrill sites at intervals of several years to observe changes in the vertical profile of nitrate and other solutes in the unsaturated zone of aquifers . |