Example sentences of "and [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuclear Electric , a third generating company , was to be established to take control of the nuclear power stations and to remain in the public sector . |
| 2 | We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’ |
| 3 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 4 | The 1975 United Nations Declaration of Rights of Disabled Persons asserted the right of disabled people to be self-reliant , to live as they choose and to participate in the social , creative and recreational activities of their communities . |
| 5 | This is a striking indication of the role of money in European society as a whole ; it reveals that even the peasantry must have reckoned , under good conditions , to produce , and to sell in the local market , a substantial surplus . |
| 6 | Technically , this is quite difficult to play accurately up to speed ; I find the best approach is to try to maintain a very relaxed right hand wrist and to pick in the general area around the top end of the fingerboard . |
| 7 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 8 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 9 | It is the tradition to build tall , and to build in the local grey stone . |
| 10 | And to succeed in the long run , they have to grow big . |
| 11 | ‘ Abstraction ’ should help us to move when we wish and to settle in the best camping places . |
| 12 | The creation of a corporate sense of identity for France 's space industry is due largely to the CNES , and to pride in the early ( 1979–86 ) success of the Ariane programme . |
| 13 | In further discussion the suggestion was made that the best course would be to introduce the Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading debate that , since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote . |
| 14 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |
| 15 | Leporello is hiding under the table when Giovanni meets his just desserts ; he survives to tell the tale and to join in the final ensemble warning the audience to take heed of the libertine 's dreadful fate . |
| 16 | The FSLN decided to call an end to the civil disobedience campaign , and to join in the national dialogue , following the negotiations on Oct. 2 between Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the Sandinista leader , and Antonio Lacayo , a close adviser to President Violeta Chamorro . |