Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His acrid and accusing farewell to London was Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ) . |
| 2 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 3 | The candidate will spend most the campaign making speeches throughout the constituency , not infrequently at thinly attended meetings , and canvassing door to door where possible . |
| 4 | While Syria made the appropriate public disclaimers , insisting it was serious about eradicating drugs and denying sanctuary to terrorists headquartered in the Bekaa Valley , Washington could take no independent action without risking the charge of meddling in Syria 's internal affairs and thereby still further inflaming Arab sensitivities throughout the Middle East . |
| 5 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 6 | Information has been collected on households ' patterns of donating money and volunteering time to charities , individuals ' motives for giving , their attitudes to charities , and their knowledge of and views of covenanting and bequeathing money to charities . |
| 7 | From the Stac Polly car park , the road continues eastwards through scenes of mountain grandeur , skirting the lower slopes of Cul Beag and reaching the main road , now the A.835 , coming from Kylesku or Lairg and heading south to Ullapool , with retrospective views of Stac Polly until declining into Strath Kanaird and arriving on the coast at Ardmair Bay . |
| 8 | have gained some illustrative experience of observing lessons taught , and of preparing and presenting material to classes |
| 9 | On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events . |
| 10 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 11 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 12 | Volunteers who give their labour free provide an important part of work done by Citizens Advice Bureaux , law centres , marriage guidance , youth work and teaching English to foreigners . |
| 13 | Westminster must become more effective in protecting citizens and holding government to account . |
| 14 | But there is only one variable , with these properties in row 1 , so and removing edge to breaks the path from to . |
| 15 | The town has also ar institution called the Spittel , built from an endowment of 1225 which laid an obligation upon the Teutonic Order to maintain a hospice for tending the poor and providing hospitality to pilgrims . |
| 16 | Key objectives include preserving forest biodiversity and providing benefit to forest peoples . |
| 17 | The head must also make available for inspection at the school information on syllabuses , schemes of work and school hours as well as details of the arrangements for dealing with complaints and providing access to pupils ' records and documents , such as any HMI Report on the school . |
| 18 | The very intensity of their land-hunger , however , forced up the cost of both renting and buying land to levels which were quite unrelated to the land 's yield . |
| 19 | On the one hand there is severe mental illness in mothers , possibly psychotic and requiring admission to specialist units . |
| 20 | Most of the value in video work remained in the area of classroom organization and the teacher gaining control over the class and facilitating day to day survival . |
| 21 | Being less official than the Review Panel and the Institute 's Practice Regulation Directorate , it was better able , in a firm but cooperative style as an Institute committee and speaking member to member , quietly to ‘ promote ’ and ‘ encourage ’ the adoption of the highest technical standards . |
| 22 | At the same time , the PLO was at its lowest ebb , starved of Arab support since Yasser Arafat backed Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War , and losing ground to extremists . |
| 23 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 24 | She was n't going to run much risk of rounding a corner and coming face to face with him — and , even if she did , so what ? |
| 25 | top management need to devote a minimum of four full days a year to preparing data personally and having face to face meetings with one or more levels of employees to communicate crucial messages . |
| 26 | In the absence of anything so spectacular , the most impressive parts of the speech were those which declared how Germany had successfully surmounted the most severe test in the previous winter , and those indicating the exploitation of the material resources of the occupied territories and giving rise to hopes of improved foodstuff provisioning at home . |
| 27 | Being an enabler of pupils ' learning is an unselfish task and " imaginative " teachers do not necessarily excel in qualities of humility and standing back and giving space to others . |
| 28 | Slowing down at all corners and giving way to pedestrians . |
| 29 | The method relied heavily on prior survey , which was supposed to reveal the directions which the plan should take , the plan being essentially of allocating land ( zoning ) , establishing patterns of communication , ensuring open space provision and giving coherence to community grouping . |
| 30 | The general principle is that net gains can be made by identifying and giving effect to decomposability amongst the organization 's activities . |