Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 2 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 3 | It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 4 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 5 | This chapter may stimulate them to contribute to the effort of welding together insights from different disciplines , rather than , as the majority of students seem to do , keeping their finance lenses firmly in place when reading finance texts and then changing to sociological lenses when reading sociology . |
| 6 | And abruptly reverting to painful gravity : ‘ Was the boy already dead ? ’ |
| 7 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |