Example sentences of "and [vb infin] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its brief would be to devise , offer and supervise a comprehensive course devoted to the training of church musicians in all aspects of their craft . |
| 2 | Women wishing to return to work after maternity leave can telephone an agency which will vet , recruit and supervise a local childminder , and provide back-up cover if the main carer is ill . |
| 3 | It denies that it is sliding out of its responsibility towards archaeological sites : ‘ Our archaeological activities will still continue and remain a vital part of our work ’ . |
| 4 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 5 | IBM UK Ltd has agreed in principle to pre-load Tel-Me on all its personal computers ‘ of an agreed specification ’ and will design and build a specific machine to incorporate the necessary communications devices , and to distribute Tel-Me in the UK . |
| 6 | C.D.C. has been described as ‘ a mature business development strategy which is being actively pursued throughout every sector of the global economy by companies seeking to establish and build a profitable enterprise by delighting the customer . ’ |
| 7 | A £4.1 million project has been awarded to design and build a new South Stand at West Ham United 's Upton Park football ground in east London . |
| 8 | ARGENTINA is paying a Swiss company more than $100 million to develop and build a new type of remotely controlled torpedo . |
| 9 | The ancient artisan , with his innate ingenuity , would design and build a simple forge by digging a trench in the ground with a piston bellows to create the draft for his charcoal fire . |
| 10 | GEC Alsthom , the Anglo-French turbo-generator manufacturer , has signed a £140m contract to design and build a 350 megawatt , combined cycle gas-fired power station near Sousse in Tunisia . |
| 11 | Philosophically and technically town planning demonstrated in Britain , as elsewhere , an operational capacity to conceive and prepare a metropolitan plan , robust enough to stand the test of time . |
| 12 | To catalogue and prepare a major sale will take months . |
| 13 | If Lahore symbolized military power , Victoria Terminus represented a scientific and commercial dominance which could suck in and re-process a whole range of other cultures . |
| 14 | In some parts of the Company TOP is starting to take off and make a real difference . |
| 15 | has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities . |
| 16 | ‘ And you wo n't go and make a similar deal with half the people in town ? ’ |
| 17 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |
| 18 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 19 | This is quite unreasonable as the pilot should always be in a position to recover and make a normal landing . |
| 20 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 21 | If you can visualise the shot there is a strong chance your body will respond and make a good swing . |
| 22 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 23 | Therefore we believe that during the plan period , those sites are likely to come forward and make a improved contribution to meeting our share of the Greater York employment needs . |
| 24 | He said a woman should aske for the senior registrar and make a full statement . |
| 25 | An in-the-money option allows the investor to exercise immediately and make a gross profit ( forgetting premiums , spreads and commissions for the moment ) . |
| 26 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 27 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 28 | There is , therefore , a wide spectrum of company life where public relations may operate and make a commercial contribution to the company 's success . |
| 29 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 30 | Perhaps it would be an opportunity to smooth things over , to apologise again and make a fresh start . |