Example sentences of "and [vb -s] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 2 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 3 | TRANSAID has helped SCF to secure an aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to famine-stricken areas of Somalia , where continued fighting and looting make overland travel dangerous . |
| 4 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 5 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 6 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher takes these sessions seriously and goes to enormous lengths to prepare for them . |
| 8 | She 's decided she wants a cat , and goes to enormous lengths to persuade her reluctant parents to buy her one . |
| 9 | There are pros and cons to both options . |
| 10 | She did n't reply at once , but then said , ‘ There are pros and cons to both sides of the argument . |
| 11 | But a more complete understanding of the operation of and limits to parental rights in education requires a wider examination , of how the law deals with other areas where the interests of children , parents and the state are all in particularly sharp focus . |
| 12 | Significant involvement of third parties , which increases the potential for errors , reduces security , and leads to increased costs . |
| 13 | Finding three of these items is very interesting and leads to various questions . |
| 14 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 15 | For many young people , one of the best ways to socialise was in the Young Farmers ' Club , which held regular meetings and trips to nearby farms . |
| 16 | To help reduce infection , our community care workers also provide clean needles and syringes to those clients who are known injectors — an operation which has full medical supervision . |
| 17 | He uses already mastered words in new combinations to which he has not hitherto been exposed , and responds to such combinations appropriately as well . |
| 18 | Good examples are crimes of sex abuse against children , and calls to natural deaths and suicides . |
| 19 | The exhibition , which begins at the Whitney Museum of American Art in October and travels to yet-unannounced sites in the United States and Europe , is described , bizarrely , by Whitney officials , as fitting into the museum 's practice of offering mid-career retrospectives of contemporary artists . |
| 20 | Explore the exciting underwater world at the Brighton Sea Life Centre … discover one of England 's largest collections of marine creatures from shrimps , starfish and stingrays to sensational sharks and octopus . |
| 21 | There is one proviso : s6 applies to clauses excluding liability for breach of the implied terms in contracts for the sale of goods and applies to all contracts , including those not made in the course of a business . |
| 22 | We shall talk about polymers only , but the theory is general and applies to all glasses . |
| 23 | This offer is valid , on request only , at the time of booking and applies to all performances except Saturday evenings — POSTAL BOOKINGS ONLY . |
| 24 | Poulantzas , like Althusser , believes that this arrangement remains constant and applies to all societies , but he argues that the more specific relations between instances vary with time and place . |
| 25 | Only 13 to 35 degrees south of the equator , it is mostly arid hills covered with scrub and rises to 10,000 feet ( 3,040m ) in the mountainous central regions . |
| 26 | The Doc is also specialising in the fitting of transducer pickups and preamps to all types of acoustic instruments . |
| 27 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |
| 28 | There is scope for strongly motivated students to create a pathway which best combines the facilities of the University as a whole and relates to personal interests . |
| 29 | Other costs including finding accommodation for families and repairs to damaged houses . |
| 30 | They include housing association designs in Liverpool , Wirral and St Helens ; restoration and repairs to listed buildings , including Rufford Old Hall and Chirk ; Penrhyn and Powis Castles ; conversion work to old properties in the Liverpool Bold StreetDuke Street triangle . |