Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 2 | He therefore gave authority to one Edward Sawyer to make inquiries , and to search for evidence in all houses and places in Kettering and five miles around . |
| 3 | The duties of the CCC , which was to work ‘ in close touch ’ with the Central Juvenile Employment Exchange , were to arrange for the vocational guidance of prospective school-leavers and to liaise with exchange officials in registering juveniles and in selecting applicants for interviews . |
| 4 | With reference to Jim Brunton 's letter ( 17 February ) , I would like to support Professor Ronald Girdwood 's remarks in an earlier letter and to confirm for blood donors and other readers the facts about blood for private hospitals . |
| 5 | Stephen liked to stand and watch , to imagine the druidical forms as they must have been , going about their ritual , and to wait in silence and stillness for the sun to perform his precise function . |
| 6 | Though it is meant to be used to keep out the cold , we had brought six of them to cover the tents and reflect away the sun 's heat , and to signal for help if needed . |
| 7 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 8 | As a bonus , ticket holders will be able to tour Plymouth before the 8pm performances , and to go on board HMS Onyx , moored alongside . |
| 9 | I want a car , a nice home , a working wife , a child , and to go on holiday . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After some discussion , Paisley , Wylie , and Foster decided to refuse to pay their fines and to go to gaol . |
| 15 | It would require pigeons ( like salmon ) to remember a home odour , or a ‘ landscape ’ of odours around its home , and to orient with respect to them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 18 | The results of the study should enable prison managers , policy-makers and Parliament to monitor prisons more efficiently and to plan for prison reform more effectively . |
| 19 | The objectives of the research are to evaluate marketing and technological strategies and to monitor over time the dynamics of competitive rivalry and collaboration . |
| 20 | Bem ( 1983 ) tries to deal with such omissions with a social learning model which involves parents encouraging , in children , the construction of cognitive schemas to understand gender relations and to cope with gender discrimination , and emphasizes that this model is only a start ( 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Major variations in formulation only occur in levels of alkalinity to deal with differing soil load expectations , the proportion and type of sequestrants , to balance the alkalinity and to cope with water hardness and the inclusion of minor ingredients . |
| 22 | This brochure sets out how Barclays can help you build your business by providing the finance you need for development and to cope with cashflow problems . |
| 23 | None of the four fields in the ‘ militant ’ group held a ballot ; in all four , the miners were prepared to strike following their local Executive 's call , and to remain on strike , in the great majority of cases , until the return to work a year later . |
| 24 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
| 25 | Sacher stated that all StB agents and officers had been ordered to hand in all weapons and identity cards , and to remain at home on standby . |
| 26 | Still , that 's what we all go for is n't it , to manfully plough through two foot deep mudholes in our be-trainered feet , to boldly stand in the pouring rain clad in only a T-shirt and to remain under canvas for three days whilst simultaneously holding both the tent and a beer can in a force nine gale ! |
| 27 | What was remarkable about this state of affairs , however , was not the difficulties of parliamentary control that the executive experienced , but its ability , even in those difficult conditions , to get a great deal of legislation passed and to remain in office . |
| 28 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 29 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 30 | Centuries after their creation , we intervene to limit the deterioration of frescoes , painted panels , canvases or marbles , and to preserve for posterity not just an empty shell but the enduring substance of a work of art . |