Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |
| 2 | A few days before his chanceless century , Dean expressed a wish ‘ to go on and make bigger scores . |
| 3 | Friends raise funds for Mark THE family and friends of autistic five-year-old Mark Mason have raised £1,400 to buy special computer equipment to help him communicate and make better progress at the special school he attends in York . |
| 4 | Had n't you better go and make further enquiries ? " |
| 5 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 6 | The feeling of helplessness then continues to overshadow and influence later relationships . |
| 7 | Another one bites the dust : Zeos International Ltd reports that a US district court dismissed a class action shareholder suit against it because the plaintiffs failed to provide specific facts that were material to the trial : the suit was filed last September , alleging that the company failed to disclose the formation of its new subsidiary , Occidental Corp , to manufacture and market lower cost computers under a new brand name , a development revealed by the Wall Street Journal . |
| 8 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 9 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 10 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 11 | The failure to properly research and understand older consumers is illustrated by several attempts to introduce promotions based on the American experience of discount-trading linked to a magazine . |
| 12 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 13 | Having established that principle , however , we should move on and demand greater flexibility in interpreting that commitment . |
| 14 | I am delighted to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that our policy on capital expenditure is to encourage and enable higher education institutions to invest , as they need to do , to accommodate the dramatic increase in student numbers as well as provide facilities for the research of remarkable quality which takes place in so many of our universities . |
| 15 | As a result , it became very much easier for a minister to brush aside any interrogation , since not only was the original purpose of the question soon left behind , but also the frontbenches have tended to intervene to try and score broader party points to which the minister in turn makes the usual party retort . |
| 16 | In the course of solving such problems we will frequently wish to alter upper bounds and to impose and alter lower bounds on variables . |
| 17 | If precautions are taken to minimize the weaknesses of questionnaires they can be quick and convenient to administer , easy to analyse and have higher validity than more time consuming alternatives such as interviews . |
| 18 | Trade did not prosper , however , and in 1860 he was forced to sell out and take humbler premises at 32 Little Queen Street , Lincoln 's Inn Fields , later to be the home of the Church Times . |
| 19 | In the international class today Ulster riders will be going out on cross country to try and gain higher placings . |
| 20 | Pupils can be encouraged to use a picture as evidence and to deduce and infer further things from what they see . |
| 21 | There would also be less of an incentive for farmers to expand and acquire smaller farms . |
| 22 | But if either you or your partner have had previous sexual partners , even in a long-term relationship , you should discuss and practise safer sex . |