Example sentences of "and [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Local authorities will be encouraged to employ specialist archaeological officers , to develop archaeological policies and to include them in local and district plans . |
| 3 | This research aims to assess UK policies for technical innovation in this broad context and to compare them with similar policies in other countries . |
| 4 | The aim of the research is to document new developments in the organisation of farming in Estonia and to compare them with modern arrangements in Finland . |
| 5 | This project aims to map the movements of individuals between employment , unemployment and economic inactivity over the decade 1979-1989 , to identify significant trends , and to relate them to wider economic factors and policy developments . |
| 6 | The pharmacist could be informed of the risk and would be well placed to help the prescribers achieve their therapeutic objectives ( for example , by offering compliance aids , visiting the home , or checking usage of the product ) and to inform them of any problems . |
| 7 | This topic is meant to improve pupils ' awareness of ‘ danger ’ areas in houses and to inform them of basic safety measures and precautions which should be taken at home . |
| 8 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 9 | The aim of science is to falsify theories and to replace them by better theories , theories that demonstrate a greater ability to withstand tests . |
| 10 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 11 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 12 | To better understand and service your needs , we make a special effort to answer all of our customers ' questions and to help them with any technical problems that may be related to MiLAN products . |
| 13 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 14 | Since the δ-endotoxin is coded for by a single gene , which is usually carried on a plasmid , it has been relatively easy to locate and clone these genes from a number of strains of Bt and to express them in other organisms . |
| 15 | His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure . |
| 16 | As I mentioned in the chapter describing the actual techniques of pressing ( see pp. 36–45 ) , it is essential to dismantle red roses , or any roses of the hybrid tea or floribunda varieties , and to press them as individual petals . |
| 17 | to increase substantially the quality and range of experimental tools and to use them with larger samples of participants to provide more powerful tests and more direct evidence about alternative models of economic decision-making ; |
| 18 | When working with inexperienced collaborators it is important to brief them carefully , and to use them in simple roles , and perhaps non-speaking roles , for example , as |
| 19 | A TEI electronic bulletin board is also maintained at the University of Illinois at Chicago : this is used to announce availability of TEI drafts and other publications , and to distribute them in electronic form , as well as providing an open forum for comment and discussion of the TEI recommendations . |
| 20 | In contrast to the US , the European Community has agreed to stabilise its emissions of carbon dioxide at 1990 levels by 2000 , and to reduce them after that . |
| 21 | It is therefore a good ideas to make copies from fairly early on of all language and anthropological materials , and to keep them in other places , such as a technical studies department or headquarters office . |
| 22 | Try to insulate children from arguments and rows , and to protect them from tense and difficult situations until they are old enough to cope with them . |
| 23 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 24 | There are also ideas and schemes to purchase and renovate many of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quintas around the island and to re-open them as small hotels . |
| 25 | It included the need to separate officers from other ranks , and to place them in separate confinement ( the intention of this was to prevent the officers from leading their followers in opposition to the repatriations ) . |
| 26 | But one can not help thinking that a far greater contribution to the preservation of the World 's rain forests would be made if companies could be persuaded to make their annual brochures less glossy and to print them on re-cycled paper . |
| 27 | Edouard de Chavigny was a Frenchman ; he understood that women , when abandoned , liked some small remembrance to soften the blow and to remind them of tender memories . |
| 28 | ‘ We do agree in Vestry held at the Bull Inn in Potton the 13th day of October 1812 that Roger Johnson , breeches maker of Potton , Beds. aforesaid shall farm the workhouse after the rate of 4s.6d per head old and young , to have their earnings and to employ them in any way to his advantage , to provide a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food and to have their meals hot three days in the week ( commonly called pott days ) … ’ |
| 29 | One or more females will then lay their eggs on these stems and promptly depart , leaving the male to fan the eggs with his fins , and to defend them against other fish . |
| 30 | The skill of writing comprises components which include an ability to hold the pen or pencil , an ability to form letters of the alphabet and to join them into recognisable words and sentences , and so on . |