Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That schools be encouraged both to maintain their choral tradition and to liaise with local church musicians , in order to agree on a common repertoire of hymns and songs ( 610–614 ) . |
| 2 | The burgeoning Sagawa Kyubin scandal , which in late August had forced Shin Kanemaru to resign as vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) [ see pp. 39049-10 ] , in October forced him to resign his seat in the Diet ( parliament ) and to retire from public life . |
| 3 | It enable us to dabble in vicarious vice and to sit in smug judgement on the result . |
| 4 | The European Court of Human Rights has considered the application of article 10 to contempt of court in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( 1979 ) 2 E.H.R.R. 245 ; to criminal defamation in Lingens v. Austria ( 1986 ) 8 E.H.R.R. 407 and to breach of confidential information in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( No. 2 ) ( unreported ) , 26 November 1991 , Series A No. 217 . |
| 5 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 6 | This at least ought to quieten panic about ageing because , if no more , it gives us a breathing space in which to research and to plan for future policy . |
| 7 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 8 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 9 | In addition , these correlations between individual lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and platelet-specific proteins may explain the changes of platelet-specific proteins with instigation of diabetic therapy ( Preston et al , 1978 ) , as lipid levels would be expected to be elevated in uncontrolled diabetes and to fall with improved control ( Paisey et al , 1978 ; Simpson et al , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | For the first time , representatives from ecumenical , Roman Catholic , mainline Protestant and Evangelical associations will sit down together to share their concerns and visions and to work towards common understanding and joint action for the future . |
| 11 | She went on to take a social science course and to train for general nursing . |
| 12 | Politically , however , I would foresee a ‘ Germanisation ’ of the EC , in the sense that the present German wish to avoid active external commitments and to concentrate on internal development will become the passive , defensive ethic of a Community which will attempt to build walls between itself and the turbulence of the outside world . |
| 13 | This allows competitor countries — Germany and Japan — to reduce their military expenditure and to concentrate on domestic industry , thereby undermining the international competitiveness of the leading powers in the capitalist bloc . |
| 14 | Liberal democracy describes the political system in a number of countries that meet certain criteria , such as the freedoms to form and join organizations , to express opinions , to vote and to compete for votes and to stand for public office , plus the holding of free and fair elections and the existence of institutions which ensure that government policies reflect popularly expressed preferences ( Johnston , 1989d , after Dahl , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 16 | These included a massive bribery case — the Suso housing scandal — which led Roh to reshuffle his Cabinet and to appear on national television on Feb. 19 to apologize . |
| 17 | Several thousand supporters of that draft who had gathered outside the parliament building in Bratislava ( the capital ) were told by SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric to continue a campaign of demonstrations ( begun on Oct. 5 with a large rally in Bratislava ) , and to engage in civil disobedience , until the National Council bowed to " the will of the Slovak people " and resigned . |
| 18 | This ability to use gestures and to engage in symbolic play is considered a necessary precursor to the child 's understanding of the way in which meanings are represented in words and sentences . |
| 19 | Mushroom polyps have been reported to severely damage other soft corals , such as leather corals , which are not usually aggressive species , and to engage in territorial fighting with hard corals , by discharging toxic secretions from their body cavities . |
| 20 | If one supports the view that dogs need a degree of freedom of movement , the opportunity to meet other dogs and to engage in natural behaviour , then this means that responsible owners would be justified in taking them to places where they can be let off the lead and allowed to run loose . |
| 21 | The national park committee also agreed to support a timetable for all public transport within the park and to help with British Rail 's Esk Valley line . |
| 22 | Both presentation material and exercises are generously illustrated to enable learners to visualize contexts and to help with difficult vocabulary . |
| 23 | It may well pay to consider moving house , to an area where the local state schools are good — at least up to age thirteen — and to embark upon fee-paying education at a later stage . |
| 24 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |
| 25 | The first comprehensive attempt by the Pentagon to adapt US strategy to the changes resulting from the political reforms in Eastern Europe , and to accede to congressional pressure to reduce military expenditure , its relevance was immediately called into doubt as the USA mounted its large-scale military deployment in the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 26 | We also use laughter to mask our incompetence and to cover for possible failure . |
| 27 | ‘ … to regard negligence as the normal requirement of responsibility in tort , and to look upon strict liability as anomalous and unjust seems to … mistake present values as well as past history . |
| 28 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 29 | In 1903 a loosely structured organization , the Union of Liberation , was formed to unite all sections of opposition and to press for constitutional democracy based on universal , equal , secret and direct franchise . |
| 30 | What is absent from these accounts is a structural analysis of the political and administrative conditions which enabled the profession to reassert its position , and to insist on increased representation within the state . |