Example sentences of "and [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requirement to assess these issues at an early stage and to confirm the special circumstances that exist by obtaining the approval of three partners other than the lead partner is set out at the beginning of this section . |
| 2 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |
| 3 | The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels . |
| 4 | Likewise in 1711 Jonathan Swift complained that " we have been fighting … to enrich usurers and stockjobbers ; and to cultivate the pernicious designs of a faction , by destroying the landed interest " . |
| 5 | Higher education in Britain has required special forms of organization designed to take into account the fact that many colleges serve more that the local authority area in which they are based , and to acknowledge the special claims to autonomy of the universities . |
| 6 | It would be his task to hold Norma Major 's hand , reply to the debate on public relations , and to steady the bloody Buffs . |
| 7 | We prefer to generalise and to treat the three lines independently . |
| 8 | A budget should be built up from first principles , to identify the component tasks , the resources which are needed to carry out these tasks and to enable the required resources to be costed . |
| 9 | The student would need to read as widely as possible in different kinds of poetry , to learn something about literary history , genre , and convention , and to acquire the practical-critical skills of close reading . |
| 10 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 11 | Bilateral co-operation agreements were signed to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy and space research and to combat the illegal drugs trade . |
| 12 | to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age . |
| 13 | In his Elizabethan World Picture Tillyard proposed the book 's purpose as ‘ to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age ’ . |
| 14 | Although the walking on the other ranges had been enjoyable , it was particularly pleasing to be in this wild and seldom-visited area , and to enjoy the unique feelings of solitude and peace that only mountains can inspire . |
| 15 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 16 | A less hopeful view is that the United States will now be able to use force , if necessary , to apply its national interests throughout the world without fear of challenge , and to tow the United Nations obediently behind it . |
| 17 | ‘ My aim is to establish a framework for the use of information technology in BNFL , ’ she explained , ‘ to raise its visibility in the Company and to establish the future roles of the Central IT Unit , CMS and the IT units at the sites . ’ |
| 18 | It therefore becomes our responsibility to do our work well at all times to ensure that we achieve what we set out to do if we want to end gassing and to increase the sporting prospects . |
| 19 | It is now necessary to look a little more closely at the exact nature of these securities and to indicate the various forms they may take . |
| 20 | It will provide a teaching aid to direct teachers to current studies and to indicate the principal areas of concern as shown by the balance of topics covered in the published literature . |
| 21 | We urgently need funds to be able to respond effectively and to meet the increased demands being made on us as well as to maintain our existing work . |
| 22 | The buildings of Halfa all face north to avoid the worst of the sun and to catch the northerly breezes . |
| 23 | He has to abandon some of his contemporary behaviour and to accept the older patterns prevalent among the majority of the congregation . |
| 24 | This process appears to have the potential to offer the most elegant solution and to accept the larger volumes demanded by the public and legislators . |
| 25 | His major contribution was undoubtedly to undertake , jointly with ( Sir ) Thomas Thorpe [ q.v. ] , a series of magnetic surveys of the British Isles ( 1883–92 ) which significantly advanced contemporary interpretation methods ; and to obtain the first measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of rocks ( 1890–8 ) . |
| 26 | Only the salient features of design can be indicated in this article , and the F.O.C. 29th Edition of the Rules should be consulted for detail and to encompass the latest amendments . |
| 27 | Because of the uncertainties , and to forestall the predicted developments , it was decided at the Committee stage of the Bill to redraft it to ensure that these were explicitly within the new law . |
| 28 | In October 1339 the king sent Archbishop Stratford and the bishop of Durham back to England to expound his urgent needs and to extract the necessary funds , but the commons in parliament insisted on first consulting their constituencies . |
| 29 | In the Nietzschean view , only art has the power to reawaken dead metaphors and to shake the rigid structures of abstraction , or as Brooke-Rose would have it , to make discourses ‘ run here and there again' . |
| 30 | The counsellor 's task is to try to unravel these separate strands of cultural norms , social theory and individual need , and to discover the real feelings and needs of the older individual . |