Example sentences of "and [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest challenge is public education in order to reduce fear and to promote a better understanding of the aims of services . |
| 2 | Operation Torch — the American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 — was the culmination of Allied attempts to exclude de Gaulle and to promote a viable alternative to Gaullism . |
| 3 | To raise awareness , understanding and esteem of the profession and to promote a positive image . |
| 4 | It represented a conscious effort to offset colonial influences and to promote a national culture which would reflect the new nation . |
| 5 | The Cabinet also agreed to reduce cash allocations and other benefits to new immigrants , to reduce child allowances and to implement a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries except Defence . |
| 6 | Might any fear that disabled employment opportunities would collapse if the prop of the statutory quota were to be removed be assuaged by placing a statutory obligation upon employers to adopt and to implement an affirmative action plan ? |
| 7 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 8 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 9 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 10 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 11 | Leaders of several political parties were reported to have convened meetings with interest groups outside the Congress in an attempt to avert political chaos and to draft an alternative " consensus " proposal to be presented to Collor " within the next few weeks " . |
| 12 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 13 | A bogus policeman has tried to abduct two children and to extort an on-the-spot fine from a driver . |
| 14 | Item ten , which I think is the probations committee budget I will move to accept the probations committee 's budget and to agree an increased county council contribution of twenty-six thousand pounds . |
| 15 | It was in fact going to be a ‘ complex ’ process , since it would require ‘ permanent , steady and patient activity to delete from people 's minds the remains of the past , the obsolete conceptions , mentalities and customs , and to cultivate a new attitude towards work , life and society . ’ |
| 16 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 17 | Major said that the meeting had produced " an excellent dialogue " and that all the parties had agreed to further meetings , and to support a new effort by Brooke to resume talks on the political future of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | So Mr Mayor , for completely different reasons than the council have er I will be urging my group to vote against this amendment and to support a subsequent amendment which will take the budget down even further . |
| 19 | The FSLN and FNT had called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience against the austerity measures , urging the population to refuse to pay increased electricity and water prices , to occupy state companies targeted for privatization , and to support a 24-hour general strike on Oct. 1 . |
| 20 | 1883 began in crisis , for Hamilton was taken seriously ill , and the Governors had to make special arrangements , both to have the School opened for the beginning of term and to arrange a substitute master . |
| 21 | It can be used to check how serious the inquiry is and to arrange a personal visit should the inquiry prove to have potential . |
| 22 | It was hoped to reduce inflation , which was still running at over 6 per cent a year , to below 5 per cent , and to enforce a 4.5 per cent ceiling on public-sector wage increases . |
| 23 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 24 | It was more a case of realising that Celtic 's squad lacked the strength in depth required for a successful European campaign and to mount a sustainable challenge on the domestic front . |
| 25 | But much more serious to Mr Frohnmayer 's cause was his reluctance publicly to discredit his opponents by pointing out inaccuracies and misrepresentations in their charges ; to defend the endowment 's choices when defence was appropriate ( as in many cases it was ) ; and to mount a solid campaign on the agency 's behalf before the American people . |
| 26 | ‘ If more intelligent natives were taught to read , write and speak English , and to acquire a sufficient knowledge of Arithmetic in English they would be able to occupy many of the minor posts in the service of the Administration . ’ |
| 27 | In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida . |
| 28 | The world 's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months . |
| 29 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 30 | Farmers were required to make ‘ tie ridges ’ which conserved moisture within the soil , to manure a certain proportion of their fields , and to plant a specified minimum acreage of cotton and cassava . |