Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 2 | According to this principle , as Bentham understands it , the ideal method for determining whether an individual 's action , or a legislative enactment , is right or wrong would be through evaluation of its total tendency to promote happiness , on the one hand , and to promote unhappiness on the other ; if the former predominates the action is right , if the latter it is wrong . |
| 3 | The workshop was part of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' ( MechE ) first year of Tribology Action , a campaign to create awareness and to stimulate action in the area of lubrication and wear . |
| 4 | The main aim of these agencies , many of which are sponsored by established companies in the local community , is to encourage the growth of small businesses and to stimulate employment in the area . |
| 5 | As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 . |
| 6 | The Commission also announced plans to outlaw the use and production of hydrobromochlorofluorocarbons ( HBFCs ) , used in firefighting equipment , and to curb production of the pesticide methyl bromide , by Jan. 1 , 1995 . |
| 7 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 8 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 9 | In the meantime , Castro had begun to jettison the middle class and to cultivate support among the peasantry , workers and students through the use of nationalistic and class appeals . |
| 10 | Partnerships need guidance and support to help those involved to continually reflect on previous learning and to plan change on the basis of this reflection . |
| 11 | The Research Centre for Social Sciences was established in 1984 both to carry out research and to support research throughout the Faculty . |
| 12 | It requires collective agreement in the form of government to define the property rights that are the objects of exchange and to enforce contract through the legal system . |
| 13 | How easy it is to let the seven-days-a-week routine become drudgery , be overwhelmed by work unfinished , and to lose sight of the original aim . |
| 14 | How long will the country continue to lose jobs and to lose access to the great national asset of our coal , given that the Government want to sell off British Coal overnight at a cheap price , for the benefit of the Treasury ? |
| 15 | The declaration of policy was more than a statement of priorities and objectives , designed to disavow as misdirected Mr Benn 's essay in Industrial Co-operation and to restore credibility to the idea — and , incidentally , to meet Signor Prandini 's dismissive criticism . |
| 16 | The SCSE promised to restore order , and to solve the food and housing problems , while " supporting private enterprise " , to honour the Soviet Union 's international obligations and to restore pride in the motherland . |
| 17 | Meanwhile it has been necessary to delay most new grant announcements , and to achieve immediate savings elsewhere in other activities such as seminars and workshops and to freeze recruitment to the Council 's laboratories and to the Swindon office . |
| 18 | The system was designed to prevent plagiarism , and to establish copyright over the thesis contents . |
| 19 | In northern Ontario , railways that had originally been designed as ‘ colonization roads ’ to link any pioneering agricultural communities and to increase settlement in the ‘ clay belt ’ had become instead ‘ prospecting roads ’ in the remarkable scramble for the mineral riches of the area which developed in Edwardian times . |
| 20 | These modules provide the opportunity to plan and undertake a health and fitness programme appropriate to individual and group needs and to increase awareness of the implications of health and fitness for personal development . |
| 21 | On 24 February 1986 , LAG issued a booklet , Lignite on the Loughshore — the case for community survival , which they circulated among politicians , universities and the media to increase awareness of the issue and to increase pressure on the British Government to hold an inquiry on both the environmental and social impacts of the mining . |
| 22 | This programme aims to promote economic and social advancement and to encourage reconciliation between the two traditions . |
| 23 | To train pupils in the evaluation of evidence and to encourage awareness of the difference between prejudice and valid argument . |
| 24 | The aim of its theme , " Deaf Pride " , was to boost the morale of the membership and to encourage self-confidence in the deaf community . |
| 25 | Successful efforts had been made to bring the work of the schools for pupils aged between eleven and thirteen closer together , and to encourage co-operation among the various subject specialists — most of whom eyed one another warily , hedging their bets until decisions were taken . |
| 26 | A fresh source of glycogen is then needed to restore the muscles to their original size and to encourage growth of the muscle tissue . |
| 27 | The aims of the Centre are to provide teaching and research on any aspect of South Asia within the University of Edinburgh and to encourage interest in the area among the community at large . |
| 28 | This point ( Wojtas 1982 ) occurs in a description of a new research centre for Police Studies at Strathclyde University , which is ‘ to ask whether anyone is doing research on the police , what degree of co-operation they have met … and to encourage research by the police themselves ’ . |
| 29 | The ministries both of foreign affairs and of defence are lobbying parliament hard to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accept accession to the NPT . |
| 30 | For ethical reasons , no social researcher should expose respondents to that possibility , and others over whom this threat does not hang or by whom it is treated lightly , such as ex-policemen and women or disgruntled members of the force , are too unrepresentative to give a balanced view of policing Therefore , it was necessary to undertake an overt study and to obtain permission for the research from the Chief Constable . |