Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the most tangible way to demonstrate our concern for the health service and to continue to improve the service available to everyone in this country . |
| 2 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 3 | They can make the book look attractive to the young reader , and motivate the learner-reader or the resistant-reader to start to read and to continue to read the book . |
| 4 | The project team 's stated role is to ensure the effective delivery of the TPS within each region and to continue to increase the volume of high quality teacher placements in business and , simultaneously , encourage greater involvement of business people in schools . |
| 5 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 6 | With the new season now on top of us , it might be appropriate to expand on the new laws and to try to give the intentions behind the changes in certain areas . |
| 7 | To get beyond this , and to try to understand the processes involved , we return to the basic requirements for profitable production . |
| 8 | But they 'll send divers down to investigate , to find out whether it 's a passenger-carrying jet or not and to try to ascertain the cause of the accident . ’ |
| 9 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |
| 10 | These are to provide short term relief to those suffering from the effects of the famine and to try to prevent the famine continuing by getting to the root of the problem , and so having more lasting long term effects . |
| 11 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 12 | A U/V Steriliser was connected to the header pool circuit and last year I also added a shop-purchased filter to this to give more filter power and to help polish the water . |
| 13 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 14 | There is also a growing need to measure what many think is immeasurable — our consumption of natural resources — and to help evaluate the extent to which business activities are truly sustainable . |
| 15 | The measures are designed to improve competitiveness and to help ensure the businesses within Chemicals are in a strong position to take advantage of the eventual upturn in the market . |
| 16 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 17 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 18 | Secondly , the policy aims to reduce the amount of absenteeism and poor work performance caused by excess use of alcohol , and to help improve the quality of life for those concerned . |
| 19 | While some training is aimed at specific jobs , some is planned in the hope that jobs will become available and to help make the area more attractive to firms planning to move by having better trained people . |
| 20 | Here we examine carbon-bearing and carbon-free granulites under a range of electrolyte saturations , confining pressures , pore pressures and temperatures to assess their contributions to the bulk conductivity of the rock and to help understand the nature of the rocks causing the high-conductivity zones in the lower crust . |
| 21 | All the techniques discussed in this section can be used to find out more about the organisation and to help determine the area for further work , the area for data analysis , database development and information systems development . |
| 22 | But curricular and assessment arrangements should aim to raise expectations and to help to narrow the gap wherever possible . |
| 23 | Limits is designed to integrate with corporate treasury systems and to help indicate the extent of potential risks from involvement with other parties such as members of the Maxwell empire or from fluctuating currencies . |
| 24 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |
| 25 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 26 | Additionally , rainwater from roofs and pavements needs to be controlled and removed in order to provide a clean access and to avoid saturating the subsoil , which could lead to damp and foundation problems . |
| 27 | The elementary level of this text precludes detailed critical discussion of the relative merits of any particular treatment , and to avoid prejudicing the issue with personal comment the main ideas of each are outlined together with a more recent and possibly unifying approach to complete the picture . |
| 28 | ‘ But I did n't catch it , ’ said Stuart , puzzled , not realising the adult wish to make everything all right for the child , and to justify buying the rod . |
| 29 | In the last two or three months before they leave office , they have an excellent opportunity to mend some of their ways and to start to take the construction sector seriously . |
| 30 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |