Example sentences of "and [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 2 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 3 | She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home . |
| 4 | We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university . |
| 5 | After some discussion , Paisley , Wylie , and Foster decided to refuse to pay their fines and to go to gaol . |
| 6 | Additionally , members of complaints committees should declare interests and defendants need the right to peer representation and to object to committee members with antipathetic interests . |
| 7 | In other voting it was decided to adopt the formal name Lithuanian Republic , dropping the adjectives Soviet and Socialist , and to restore to official use the emblem of independent Lithuania , featuring a knight on a white horse , in place of the Soviet Lithuanian emblem based on the hammer and sickle . |
| 8 | The crucial test however is not the amount of factual information that is contained but the extent to which the course helps to focus and stimulate your own thoughts on the various issues and to lead to discussion with your partner and others in the same situation . |
| 9 | That evening , some 400 guests and members of the University gathered in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building to hear the Vice-Chancellor and the Chairman of Council , Mrs Stella Clarke , introduce the Campaign for Resource to the Bristol community and to listen to Sir Michael Angus explain why he supported the University and had agreed to lead the Campaign . |
| 10 | They were ready to enjoy the fruits of victory , and to listen to Uncle Mack 's Broadstairs Minstrels . |
| 11 | Sociolinguists in this new , pluralist tradition , of which Rommetveit is perhaps an extreme exponent , have recently begun to challenge the ‘ mystification ’ of writing and of ‘ literal meaning ’ and to apply to literacy the more culturally relative , anthropological perspective that Rommetveit is proposing for language in general . |
| 12 | I mean starting from the way children go to school in the morning — they expect their parents to take them quite often , and to contribute to pollution . |
| 13 | It may be used , for example , to persuade ; to explain ; to instruct ; to entertain ; to narrate ; to speculate ; to argue a case ; to report ; to describe ; to find out ; to clarify or explore an issue ; to solve a problem ; to interpret ; to summarise ; to evaluate ; to reflect ; to announce ; to criticise and to respond to criticism . |
| 14 | Yet it managed to raise prices and to add to inflation at one and the same time . |
| 15 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 16 | However , there are a number of studies which do suggest that socio-economic characteristics are related to morbidity and to access to health services . |
| 17 | His immediate response was to tell Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg to make further attempts to contact Tito 's forces moving north to stand fast for 24 hours ; and to return to HQ 5 Corps for further orders at 1600 hrs the following afternoon , 14 May . |
| 18 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 19 | Thomas 's eyes forced her to take account of something different in herself and to begin to value it . |
| 20 | Mr John Conyers , a black Democratic congressman from Detroit , has introduced legislation to establish a federal commission to study the impact of slavery upon blacks and to recommend to Congress a range of appropriate remedies , including possible reparations . |
| 21 | An easier edit is to let the hand reach the goat 's back and to cut to close-up for the patting , a shot which should be taken from a different angle to the medium shot . |