Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
2 | Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives . |
3 | Once the pain and muscle soreness disappears I 'll have to try and restore any muscles that might be in danger — and in doing that restore the nerve routes — the circuits , if you like — that link muscle and brain . ’ |
4 | That was strictly his own idea to try and cover any hesitations while he hid the trail that led to Miss Tuckey and the picture on her wan . |
5 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
6 | The purpose of this chapter is to try and clarify these issues by asking : ( a ) what is quality in health care ? ( b ) whose quality are we talking about ? ( c ) how can quality be turned into a reality in the new NHS ? |
7 | Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . |
8 | All the same , what 's attractive about Russell is his readiness to admit failures , and to try and suggest new solutions . |
9 | The United States , and some other Western governments , went to considerable lengths to try and discredit these elections as being not free , but fraudulent . |
10 | One thing I should mention is that you 'd be advised to try and view these videos on a stereo VCR , as many of the recorded examples — panning , for example — are pretty meaningless otherwise . |
11 | In product markets characterised by complex production processes long-term supply contracts or sub-contracts are commonly used to try and lower these costs . |
12 | And people are doing it again now , in order to try and re-create those sounds . |
13 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
14 | Most people are amazed to get an answer from the band at all , so it is good business and public relations to try and answer these enquiries . |
15 | There is always arguments as far as service work is concerned erm yes , I mean we do hear of complaints erm and obviously if it 's one of our dealers obviously we endeavour to try and resolve any problems if it is one of our dealers . |
16 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
17 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
18 | The police had to revers their patrol car down lane three to try and warn other motorists of the danger . |
19 | We 're the trigger we 've got to try and schedule three pickups three baggings a day . |
20 | To try and address these problems , the New Business sales team , which has hitherto been organised around operating system environments , is to refocus on the requirements of specific industry sectors . |
21 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
22 | Since the variation in 6.4 and 6.5 is partly at least phonetically constrained , it is helpful at this stage to try and summarize these constraints : Rule 1 describes the constraints on variation in tokens of ( o ) , using a conventional generative format . |
23 | The idea was to try and get working parties going . |
24 | To put the matter into more realistic fashion , the aim was to try and get local councils to understand and accept the implications of national economic policy for local government . |
25 | I 'll have to do some more calls on Friday night to try and get those appointments , and if necessary , I 'll have to come in on Saturday morning , because you do n't finish a week until you 've got your appointments for the following week . |
26 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
27 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
28 | I see yes to transfer so the other aim would be to try and get some skills which er would improve your chances of doing whatever |
29 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
30 | AMPES ' work was basically to try and get more women to join the trade unions and political organizations . |