Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |
| 2 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 3 | Designed to preserve regional languages and to promote their use in education , government , administration , the courts , the media and cultural activities , the convention defined a minority language as one " traditionally spoken " by a group of people " numerically inferior " within the population of any state . |
| 4 | Some are fitted with halogen bulbs for overall punch , or spots to light specific objects or to highlight . |
| 5 | In an eloquent speech he dwelt on the reluctance of the adult deaf to attend divine service or to receive moral instruction and on the " appalling " lack of religious knowledge amongst the younger generation . |
| 6 | Not until the second half of the sixteenth century , when there was a desire to combat Spanish power and to tap the resources of the Indies , did an English enterprise to North America again become attractive . |
| 7 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 8 | US trade officials said that the list aimed to target state-owned industries and to minimize the impact on Hong Kong , many of whose exports were manufactured in factories in south China . |
| 9 | The speech was conservative in tone , concentrating on the need to stimulate economic growth and to combat lawlessness rather than the campaign themes of working towards " people empowerment " and a reduction of income disparities . |
| 10 | Two new loans to promote rural education and to finance agricultural projects worth dollars 273,000,000 were announced by the World Bank president , Barber Conable , after a meeting on July 19-21 , 1989 , with Moroccan government officials , bankers and businesspeople in Casablanca . |
| 11 | The others trooped out of the healer 's house on to the sunlit street , glad to breathe fresh air and to feel the breeze on their faces . |
| 12 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 13 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 14 | Therefore , people who suffer from intellectual impairment may be unable to acquire adequate knowledge and to respond quickly and appropriately to a threat to safety . |
| 15 | The first , brief account of her long love for Kallikrates which Ayesha gives to Leo Vincey and his guardian in She is expanded in Wisdom 's Daughter to emphasise this spirituality and to excuse her sin as being due to the inexorable power of love . |
| 16 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 17 | We invite all those who have shared in Bristol 's success in the past to support this campaign and to share in Bristol 's success in the future . |
| 18 | I urge you to support this motion and to put the great back into Britain . |
| 19 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 20 | Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) . |
| 21 | Congress , the G M B as a union founded and built around working people as a duty , an obligation to accept that challenge and to lead that campaign . |
| 22 | As we shall see later , this may happen anyway , but , in so far as the financial analysis is meant to estimate the increase in value of the corporation to the shareholder , the system surely should do its best to meet that objective and to narrow the scope for obfuscating the effect upon shareholder wealth . |
| 23 | The granting of life tenancy to peasant farmers and the substitution of agricultural co-operatives for collective farming were among reforms designed both to increase economic productivity and to improve the popular appeal of the government [ see also p. 36617 ] . |
| 24 | The Unit also endeavours to encourage collaborative research and to act as a source of advice for studies carried out by other organisations . |
| 25 | to find high houses and to remedy them . |
| 26 | However , research in cognitive psychology , cybernetics and comparative linguistics is beginning to shake old assumptions and to provide guidelines for investigation . |
| 27 | It was no secret that Michael Foot — believing that he had a duty to the late Dick Crossman to procure the publication of the diaries — was courageously prepared to accept this risk and to bare his breast for the dagger . |
| 28 | The Coordinator needs to provide clear leadership and to inspire confidence in the ability of the school team to achieve its goals . |
| 29 | On Feb. 7 Sharif announced a programme of economic reforms to encourage foreign investment and to compensate for losses resulting from the Gulf crisis . |
| 30 | The Opposition have made absolutely no commitment to provide free phones or to increase public expenditure on telecommunications infrastructure in any way . |