Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 2 | The role of an MAS specialist , in addition to helping a retained client through all stages of a proposed transaction , is to co-ordinate the delivery of other KPMG services , at the appropriate time , and to liaise with other professional parties to the transaction . |
| 3 | That schools be encouraged both to maintain their choral tradition and to liaise with local church musicians , in order to agree on a common repertoire of hymns and songs ( 610–614 ) . |
| 4 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 5 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 6 | The burgeoning Sagawa Kyubin scandal , which in late August had forced Shin Kanemaru to resign as vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) [ see pp. 39049-10 ] , in October forced him to resign his seat in the Diet ( parliament ) and to retire from public life . |
| 7 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 8 | The committee was appointed to consider powers of delegated legislation and quasi-judicial decision and to report on any safeguards needed ‘ to secure the constitutional principles of the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of the Law ’ . |
| 9 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 10 | In other words they aim to satisfy and to perform to satisfactory standards . |
| 11 | On intellectual development , they cite the example of the British Civil Service that , since the Northcote-Trevelyan Reforms of 1854 , has filled its policy-making posts with graduates , selected for their demonstrated capacity for independent thought , their ability to learn and to perform to high intellectual standards , without regard to academic specialization . |
| 12 | It enable us to dabble in vicarious vice and to sit in smug judgement on the result . |
| 13 | The National Salvation Front ( NSF ) which had taken power following the violent overthrow of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu at the end of 1989 , struggled in its first weeks to maintain its unity and to contend with growing popular criticism . |
| 14 | The Women Artists Slide Library is presently applying for funds to continue to develop the library , run a fuller service for its members and users and to continue with this work for the next year . |
| 15 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 16 | A key clause defined freedom of information : journalists had the right to demand information ( including access to documents ) from state bodies , social organizations and officials , and to appeal to higher bodies or officials and ultimately to the courts if their demands were refused . |
| 17 | The European Court of Human Rights has considered the application of article 10 to contempt of court in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( 1979 ) 2 E.H.R.R. 245 ; to criminal defamation in Lingens v. Austria ( 1986 ) 8 E.H.R.R. 407 and to breach of confidential information in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( No. 2 ) ( unreported ) , 26 November 1991 , Series A No. 217 . |
| 18 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 19 | This at least ought to quieten panic about ageing because , if no more , it gives us a breathing space in which to research and to plan for future policy . |
| 20 | They also set forth joint plans to conserve wildlife and to cope with environmental emergencies such as oil spills in Arctic waters . |
| 21 | Our next priority like er , Labour says like a the different degrees is er the primary schools er many of which as we all know that we 've been struggling and to cope with inadequate budgets . |
| 22 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 23 | Early achievement spurs the client on ; they are taught to focus on their success , and to cope with any difficulties rationally by altering the programme slightly until success is achieved . |
| 24 | AELTC Registered and Approved would make a great difference to parental peace of mind , and to support from outside sponsors . |
| 25 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 26 | He 's pledged to reform teacher training , a crackdown on violent crime and to proceed with long-term plans for Britain 's place in Europe . |
| 27 | Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds . |
| 28 | The new government plan included a system of protection for witnesses turning state evidence , a toughening of bail conditions , and provisions for the police to hold suspects for up to 48 hours without charge and to suspend for 12 months any financial operation suspected of involving Mafia assets . |
| 29 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 30 | Saddam Hussein had urged the Iraqi parliament " to adopt your just decision to lift the travel ban on all foreigners and to restore to all of them the freedom to travel , apologizing to those who may have been harmed , and seeking forgiveness from God " . |