Example sentences of "[n mass] and [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile . |
| 2 | The purpose of this project is to develop appropriate statistical procedures , to test them using psychological data and to make available techniques for use by social scientists . |
| 3 | Courses in economics therefore include the study of theoretical models of economic processes , of the statistical methods used to analyse economic data and to prepare economic forecasts , of markets and economic institutions such as the labour market or industrial firms or banks , and of economic policy and policy-making with respect to matters such as taxation , natural resources and the environment , financial markets and the international economy . |
| 4 | Additions to the existing law which attacked the symptoms rather than the cause were useful : if the police were given the power to prohibit processions and meetings , to outlaw paramilitary defence corps and to ban political uniforms this would no doubt help , but suppression of fascist anti-semitism would be the best solution . |
| 5 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 6 | White farmers argue that parcelling out commercial farmland in small plots will reduce productivity and so jeopardise the country 's ability both to feed its people and to export valuable crops . |
| 7 | Labour needs members more than ever to help form policies relevant to ordinary people and to get those policies across . |
| 8 | A committee of inquiry was set up in 1974 to consider the whole question of the education of handicapped children and young people and to review existing provision . |
| 9 | And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 10 | Forms of writing are the central concern of this painter , sculptor , architect and designer , who was the first to experiment with electronic graphics and to exhibit inflatable furniture . |
| 11 | Marrying again and starting a family had found her coping with a highly-gifted child , and this had led to her founding the National Association for Parents of Gifted Children in order to help families who find themselves thrown by their brilliant off-spring and to encourage local authorities to make provision for them . |