Example sentences of "and [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 2 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 3 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 4 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 5 | There 's enough food and to spare for the coming year . |
| 6 | Leaflets were distributed throughout Kuwait City attacking the government 's failure to organize food supplies and to plan for a swift restoration of water and electricity supplies . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if the order is opposed , the usual action must be taken to retain and brief counsel , to settle precognitions and to arrange for a hearing before the commissioners . |
| 8 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |
| 9 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 10 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 11 | The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out . |
| 12 | The new president in office at the EC Social Affairs Council , Tristan Garel-Jones , told the European Parliament in July that he was ready to place a great deal of importance on social problems and to work for the improvement of social conditions for all European citizens . |
| 13 | The TTF undertook to encourage both members and non-members to be aware of where supplies came from , to ensure that timber was bought from suppliers that were committed to " sustainable " resources wherever possible , and to work for the implementation of forest management schemes . |
| 14 | Whatever knowledge there is to be gleaned from this year 's batch of accidents will not be of an academic nature , but will be used to teach and to train for the future . |
| 15 | Abbott became one of the founding members of the Open Door Council in 1926 , dedicated to securing that ‘ a woman shall be free to work and be protected as a worker on the same terms as a man … and to secure for a woman , irrespective of marriage or childbirth , the right at all times to decide whether or not she shall engage in paid work ’ . |
| 16 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 17 | We camp , and to compensate for the fishing Odd-Knut suggests he will cook us another of his specialities , blåbærsuppe , a fish stew . |
| 18 | The latter , about which there was little evidence at the time , ( perestroika was just another word in the dictionary ) would be needed to overcome resistance to reform and to compensate for the pain of the economic transition . |
| 19 | The motion was : ’ That leave be given to bring in a Bill to end distinctions between the various types of educational institutions that cater for people over 18 years of age , and to provide for a genuinely comprehensive system of higher education under democratic control . ’ |
| 20 | This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided . |
| 21 | In the gigantic concrete suburbs around Bucharest and the other major cities , no churches were built to replace the ones in the areas demolished and to provide for the spiritual needs of the relocated populations . |
| 22 | He resigned from the Temple ; and to provide for the needs of his rapidly increasing family he was appointed as Rector of Boscom and prebendary of Salisbury , with the apparent understanding that he would continue to reside mainly in London , where he could find the books which he required for his great work , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity . |
| 23 | Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation . |
| 24 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 25 | It had seemed such a marvellous idea at the time , to leave behind her northern home town , the scene of all her unhappy memories , and to apply for the job Caro had just vacated , to take over Caro 's lease . |
| 26 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 27 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 28 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 29 | You may be able to continue giving care and support to the abandoned partner but it is still necessary to accept both the loss and the change and to look for a positive way forward . |
| 30 | An opportunity to discuss the difficulty over the telephone when it arises and to look for a means of reducing the effects of the crisis is the starting point . |