Example sentences of "and [vb infin] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that to improve fitness , the body needs to respond and adapt to a gradual and continual increase in training load . |
| 2 | The organisation is regarded as a ‘ green field ’ , able and willing both to accept and adapt to a completely changed information systems environment . |
| 3 | PART OF the City of Birmingham Touring Opera 's brief is to involve and appeal to a broad community . |
| 4 | The departures , which UI has attempted to minimise and ascribe to a collection of reasons , leave in place president Peter Cunningham , vice president of marketing David Sandel , director of marketing Barbara Walker , director of desktop marketing Jesse Bornfreund , Colin Fulton , now running both the Pacific Basin and Asia Pacific geographies out of Singapore , newcomer Wilson Haddock , reportedly responsible for a downsizing study , a new accountant and some support staff . |
| 5 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The earlier a pupil is able to find and keep to a comfortable and efficient working position , the better . |
| 7 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |
| 8 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 9 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 10 | On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield . |
| 11 | This is unsatisfactory because these patients can both manage and respond to a gluten free diet . |
| 12 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 13 | Let's go and drink to a life of crime . ’ |
| 14 | This is supported by a commitment to developing a culture which enables people working at all levels of the business to understand and commit to a central mission , and to share common values and principles . |
| 15 | She was assisted to stand upright and walk to a chair . |
| 16 | That belief system will be accompanied by values of behaviour and culture , which we are likely to accept and practise to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 17 | We 'll go northwards and get to a port . |
| 18 | Stalking through the dark rooms she would suddenly stop and point to a fireplace — ‘ William de Morgan , those tiles . |
| 19 | He looked like he was enjoying it , although he kept making mistakes , forcing the juggernaut to shudder and shake to a standstill . |
| 20 | Who was going to stop and talk to a young girl like me ? |
| 21 | Also , it is n't physically possible to sit and listen to a rap album all the way through . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to sit and listen to a lot of boys acting as over-privileged plonkers , ’ said Ms d'Argy Smith , whose magazine forked out £1,000 to back the end-of-term debate . |
| 23 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 24 | Free all that valuable time wasted on such bureaucratic chores to go and listen to a few people who have something important to say . |
| 25 | It is all too easy to take and agree to a request for samples , ring up the appropriate department or dispatch centre and happily assume that it has gone . |
| 26 | The backhand slash completing the figure-of-eight sped unerringly for the doomed man 's neck , and an instant later his severed head somersaulted high in the air , to bounce and roll to a stop on the mat several feet away . |