Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guinness has an arrangement with Lion Nathan to brew and distribute Draught Guinness and to package Guinness Original in New Zealand . |
| 2 | Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives . |
| 3 | Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production . |
| 4 | We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All the same , what 's attractive about Russell is his readiness to admit failures , and to try and suggest new solutions . |
| 7 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 8 | Education in schools , colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The police had to revers their patrol car down lane three to try and warn other motorists of the danger . |
| 12 | The idea was to try and get working parties going . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's right , so , if you want to try and erm , minimize urban unemployment , right , or it 's futile to try and minimize urban unemployment by erm , er , establishing employment er , job creation schemes in urban areas , because that will increase the probability of getting a job if you 're a migrant . |
| 15 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 16 | His response was to try and impose tough discipline and demand greater results at the same time . |
| 17 | We do tend to try and remember odd words , because of their oddity . |
| 18 | There certainly would not be any conferring with the record company to try and establish comparable advances. , |
| 19 | He used to try and learn other players ' licks from the radio and this process was hampered by the fact that he only had one pass in which to do so . |
| 20 | John has always gone out of his way to try and persuade similar sufferers that there may be help for them in alternative therapies . |
| 21 | Staff there have been so impressed by Carina 's bravery that they have decided to try and help other youngsters like her . |
| 22 | However , the limitations of the stick forced governments to try and win voluntary cooperation through concessions and " social contracts " . |
| 23 | This enables the Company to manage and control activity levels , to attract and retain top quality staff and to use experience gained in one area in other parts of the world . |
| 24 | I believe our profession , whether print or broadcasting , should be more flexible , to attract and encourage suitable youngsters from all backgrounds . |
| 25 | Nor is there any reason why the state should tell firms how to attract and keep good staff in a country where qualified labour can be hard to find . |
| 26 | Client agrees with KPMG ( for itself and on trust and as agent for the others mentioned below ) fully to indemnify and to hold harmless KPMG , its partners , employees , its lawyers , [ Stephenson Harwood ] , any Approved Broker and ( subject to Client 's prior consent to their engagement ) any other advisers , agents and consultants retained by KPMG in connection with the Offer ( any and all of which or whom is referred to as an ‘ Indemnified Person ’ ) from and against any and all losses , claims , costs , damages , actions , proceedings , demands , liabilities and expenses whatsoever , joint or several , ( collectively ‘ claims ’ ) which any such Indemnified Person may suffer or incur and which relate to or arise from , directly or indirectly , KPMG 's engagement hereunder and/or the provision by KPMG of its services in connection with the Offer . |
| 27 | ‘ I invite him to come and have sincere talks here with us to see whether there is a way out of the stalemate into which ( UN Security Council ) Resolution 789 and the report of the secretary general and his map have put us , ’ he said . |
| 28 | His dedication to the subject was complete and he continued to write and give high quality papers at various conferences . |
| 29 | Chapman studied medicine at Cambridge and , on graduating , even briefly practised it ; of more significance , however , in the light of his subsequent career , was a meeting with John Cleese , with whom he was to write and perform numerous sketches , most notably for David Frost . |
| 30 | This , in turn , relieves the software houses of the problem of having to write and test numerous device drivers . |