Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [art] [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 | It follows that society is entitled to insist , for example , that companies are equipped with governance structures adequate to enforce a commitment to profits on the part of management and to promote the efficient operation of the business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | large-scale fiscal measures to speed up slum clearance and housing schemes , to improve local amenities , to boost family incomes by generous family allowances , to improve the job market in the inner city , and to implement the proposed extension of nursery provision . |
| 9 | The outcome of such discussions should be popular decisions and popular demands ; and since in a democracy it is the people , and not the government or parliament , which is sovereign , it is then the business of government to accept and to implement the popular will . |
| 10 | The requirement to assess these issues at an early stage and to confirm the special circumstances that exist by obtaining the approval of three partners other than the lead partner is set out at the beginning of this section . |
| 11 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 12 | The primary function of the teacher is not so much to impart information as to help the student to assimilate the course of reading and lesson notes and to stimulate the questioning attitude of mind by every means at his/her disposal . |
| 13 | You will need to rely on the water movement in the aquarium to give mobility to these non-living foods and to stimulate the predatory instinct . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is left to the reader to plot these points on figure 10.3 , and to connect the first and third . |
| 16 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | ‘ We hope to be able to introduce a bill as soon as the legislative timetable permits and to see the new line completed around the end of the decade . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Some come for ideas and to see the latest in innovation . |
| 20 | It was the danger of these semi-beggar squatters to public order in every urban economy that lead the statesmen of the eighteenth century to favour effective price control , to attempt a state reform of the ‘ abusive ’ charitable foundations of the Church , and to preach the chilly gospel of workhouse labour . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | There are instructions to move strings , to compare them , and to perform the usual logical operations . |
| 23 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 24 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 25 | I was determined to see the world 's first dawn , and to greet the first people on the planet — true Pacific people at that — who were planning to take a stab at their day . |
| 26 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | In Mexico , for example , hillside peasants use bullocks and horses to plough their fields and to carry the harvested triticale . |
| 29 | The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels . |
| 30 | His only strategy is to take small steps and to carry the local vector parallel to itself over each step . |