Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | the procedure refAndWgt is then called to save a set of ‘ good ’ measurements of the reference card — to be used later to check consistency — and also to compute a weighting between the top and bottom of the image . |
| 32 | Suger 's historical writings led the monks of his abbey to develop a taste for history and hence to compile a series of chronicles . |
| 33 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 34 | When a system of individual assessment is implemented , teachers seek regularly and conscientiously to perceive a child 's success ( be this in reading , in mathematics , or in the slow mastery of a concept in history or science ) against the understanding that child showed yesterday , last week or last year . |
| 35 | A number of Japanese independent software vendors were exhibiting at SunWorld show , including developers such as Technology Fukui , a regional company already developing in the computer-integrated manufacturing field and now to offer a building blocks system for a flexible manufacturing control system ( called F-Macs ) for control of incoming and out going shipments , production line control and automatic warehousing — the system will cost upwards of $10,000 once it is realised in March next year . |
| 36 | It seemed so unfair to have faced one trial to prove my innocence , and now to face a kind of drumhead court martial as though I were guilty . |
| 37 | Well yes , in so far as it 's a question of degree , though if Crime and Punishment really is the king of thrillers then there 's something unique to remark in it and even to wax a bit pompous about . |
| 38 | It is increasingly common to dispense with deeds of assignment in respect of endowment insurance policies and simply to have a notice of deposit . |
| 39 | I wonder if it will pay to feed maggots over the sand to persuade the chub to spend more time there , and then to trot a bunch of maggots to them . |
| 40 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 41 | We 've attempted , Chairer , to assess this proposal and then to set a criteria I think it 's important for members to understand that currently there is a consortium that er , is in operation , fully operational that is carrying out the tasks erm , that are identified in the consultation document mainly erm the consultation document itself does erm show exactly what the health authority is doing erm , the proposal now before you is to extend that erm to one merged unit of health authority with one executive board erm based with three local health clinics erm , to provide the service . |
| 42 | She and John went first to see her mother , then to a hotel in Chester overnight , and then to spend a week in North Wales . |
| 43 | ‘ I advise you to think very carefully about what you have told me , Miss Glynn , and then to volunteer a statement . ’ |
| 44 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 45 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 46 | He worked without an easel and with the minimum of fuss , placing his canvas on a chair and painting quietly , ‘ interrupting only now and then to take a gulp of alcohol from a bottle . |
| 47 | To find a country unlike your imaginings of it , and then to find a series of representations by somebody else of your own experience , gives a sense of intrusion . |
| 48 | It is important to identify why this occurs , and then to find a solution for each reason . |
| 49 | Stephen called to his son to fetch a rag to stop the petrol and then to get a funnel from for Mr Dodd to decant petrol into a metal can . |
| 50 | Mrs Frizzell was immediately suspicious To get so much sympathy and then to get a handout as soon as she asked for it , was unnerving . |
| 51 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |
| 52 | By 1985 Greenpeace was better organised and French intelligence had learned that it was planning to send out to Moruroa its larger 42-ton Rainbow Warrior , together with the Vega , and then to launch a number of small boats in which its members would try to elude the French Navy and penetrate the test area . |
| 53 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 54 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 55 | And then to produce a reaction . |
| 56 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 57 | This level should , Leathart advised , be pushed on with speed to the Great Cross-course , and then on to the second fault , seen in the northern end of Fleming 's , which had cut off the vein , and there to institute a search . |
| 58 | Here the button is pressed once to select an ‘ icon ’ from the screen menu and twice to open a file for that particular piece of software . |
| 59 | As an international loan officer , I learned to forget about security and instead to develop a set of rationales that would make home office feel good about the loan , even though , technically , it was ‘ unsecured ’ . |
| 60 | Roseau , the capital , had primitive street lighting , no smart shops , and nowhere to post a letter . |