Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This doorway was made high in order to permit laden waggons or carts to enter the barn and to unload from the threshing floor into the bays . |
| 2 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 3 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 4 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 5 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 6 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 7 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 8 | He felt it necessary in any case to establish himself on campus before leaving for Cyprus , in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his university colleagues , and to connect with the Fulbright Commission , which administered its scholarship programme through offices in American embassies overseas . |
| 9 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 10 | On the future of the party , Gorbachev declared that the CPSU " has neither the political nor the moral right to absolve itself from the responsibility for the destiny of the reform programme , to shirk its role and to retire to the wayside of the social process " . |
| 11 | A parent is legally bound to feed , clothe , house , not to mistreat , and to see to the education of his own children , but not those of his neighbour ; although those next door are legally protected against anyone 's abuse or assault . |
| 12 | There was a railed-off space on top of the cabins which served as a kind of open-air lounge , sufficiently high to allow passengers both to enjoy the breeze and to see over the bank . |
| 13 | The executive council also expressed concern at the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and asked the Director-General to send a mission of inquiry and to report on the conditions of workers and employers and their associations in that country . |
| 14 | Their competence was further questioned when it was resolved that , ‘ Messrs. Brunel and Burn be requested to examine further the plans proposed by Messrs. Angell and Pownall to be omitted , and to report to the Judges at their next meeting ’ . |
| 15 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |
| 16 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 17 | Answer guide : To control the activities of the organisation , to plan future activities , to assist in raising finance and to report upon the activities and performance of the enterprise to interested parties . |
| 18 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 19 | Mark and I went down to Yorkshire on Saturday morning to stay with an old University friend of mine and to go to the Bedale Point-to-Point with a group of people . |
| 20 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will take the trouble both to read my announcement about the improvements in cold weather payments this year and to go to the Library to see how those allocations are made . |
| 21 | It took many visits to reach our self-set target of non-respondents : thirty primary and thirty secondary teachers willing to discuss the Oxfordshire scheme and to go through the questionnaire orally with us . |
| 22 | Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court . |
| 23 | Sociology , however , insists on a willingness to reject what is ‘ obvious ’ , ‘ common sense ’ , ‘ natural ’ , and to go beneath the surface of such understanding of the world . |
| 24 | For the middle classes , able to live a comfortable life with servants to take care of domestic matters and to minister to the needs of dependent members of the household , giving a home to an elderly relative would not have meant the automatic provision of unpaid care by female relatives . |
| 25 | It was a triumph to see the Grand National from so many angles — far better than being there — to have the camera on the winning boat , to watch the two FA Cup semi-finals , one after the other , and to round off the day with Nigel Mansell 's win in the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 26 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 27 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 28 | Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers . |
| 29 | The notice of the Portadown Methodist Watchnight Service for 31 December 1848 is worth quoting in full : ‘ You are affectionately invited to attend the above service which will be held in the Portadown Wesleyan Chapel in Thomas Street on Sunday , 31st December 1848 , to commence at 10 o'clock p.m. and to continue till the commencement of the New Year . |
| 30 | Local authorities have been forced to sell the best of their housing stock into owner occupation , and to agree to the transfer of houses remaining in the rented sector to alternative landlords . |