Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We see ourselves as a specialty chemical company and the strategies are to invest in facilities and R & D , to emphasise Europe as we go forward and to continue to improve the quality ’ . |
| 2 | That is the most tangible way to demonstrate our concern for the health service and to continue to improve the service available to everyone in this country . |
| 3 | A major role for the peace movement is therefore to help to overcome this fear , and to work actively to put forward constructive disarmament suggestions , and to continue to take the necessary political actions to ensure that the issue remains in the forefront of public attention . |
| 4 | They can make the book look attractive to the young reader , and motivate the learner-reader or the resistant-reader to start to read and to continue to read the book . |
| 5 | During the third phase , lasting two weeks , you will follow a diet that allows you to feel really healthy and to continue losing the unwanted pounds and inches . |
| 6 | The project team 's stated role is to ensure the effective delivery of the TPS within each region and to continue to increase the volume of high quality teacher placements in business and , simultaneously , encourage greater involvement of business people in schools . |
| 7 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 8 | With the new season now on top of us , it might be appropriate to expand on the new laws and to try to give the intentions behind the changes in certain areas . |
| 9 | Before proceeding , it is perhaps appropriate to examine what is meant by deregulation and to try to access the likely effect of the philosophy if it is fully extended to international air transport . |
| 10 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 11 | Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality . |
| 12 | To get beyond this , and to try to understand the processes involved , we return to the basic requirements for profitable production . |
| 13 | But they 'll send divers down to investigate , to find out whether it 's a passenger-carrying jet or not and to try to ascertain the cause of the accident . ’ |
| 14 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |
| 15 | These are to provide short term relief to those suffering from the effects of the famine and to try to prevent the famine continuing by getting to the root of the problem , and so having more lasting long term effects . |
| 16 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 17 | A U/V Steriliser was connected to the header pool circuit and last year I also added a shop-purchased filter to this to give more filter power and to help polish the water . |
| 18 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 19 | There is also a growing need to measure what many think is immeasurable — our consumption of natural resources — and to help evaluate the extent to which business activities are truly sustainable . |
| 20 | The measures are designed to improve competitiveness and to help ensure the businesses within Chemicals are in a strong position to take advantage of the eventual upturn in the market . |
| 21 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 22 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 23 | Secondly , the policy aims to reduce the amount of absenteeism and poor work performance caused by excess use of alcohol , and to help improve the quality of life for those concerned . |
| 24 | While some training is aimed at specific jobs , some is planned in the hope that jobs will become available and to help make the area more attractive to firms planning to move by having better trained people . |
| 25 | Here we examine carbon-bearing and carbon-free granulites under a range of electrolyte saturations , confining pressures , pore pressures and temperatures to assess their contributions to the bulk conductivity of the rock and to help understand the nature of the rocks causing the high-conductivity zones in the lower crust . |
| 26 | All the techniques discussed in this section can be used to find out more about the organisation and to help determine the area for further work , the area for data analysis , database development and information systems development . |
| 27 | When Jones made the offer he said he was ‘ attempting to establish an open and cooperative relationship ’ and to help mend the broken fences of the previous day 's rancour . |
| 28 | There are five main ways in which these forecasts are used : for resource allocation in the near future ; to plan longer-term capital expenditure ; to assess planned admission limits for schools ; to aid reorganization ; and to help forecast the future budget for the local authority — both educational and corporate . |
| 29 | But curricular and assessment arrangements should aim to raise expectations and to help to narrow the gap wherever possible . |
| 30 | Limits is designed to integrate with corporate treasury systems and to help indicate the extent of potential risks from involvement with other parties such as members of the Maxwell empire or from fluctuating currencies . |