Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City must stump up the cash and planned to watch Viscaal yesterday against Mechelin . |
| 2 | He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes . |
| 3 | At the time he was a painter and planned to study art . |
| 4 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
| 5 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 6 | At the same time , new vocational qualifications and grants to encourage schools to develop high-quality technology courses will mean wider opportunities for pupils less academically inclined . |
| 7 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |
| 8 | The rolling forest of Wensleydale that surrounded Bainbridge has gone now , with its deer and wild boar , but the horn that was blown at dusk every evening between Holyrood and Shrovetide to lead travellers out of the forest to safety still hangs behind the bar of the Rose and Crown , although it is blown now only at village weddings . |
| 9 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 10 | Men may , for example , both see themselves as ‘ stronger ’ than women and tend to see women as more weak and passive , but also see women as having a power over them that can seem to engulf the man in forms of emotional dependence by which he may feel threatened . |
| 11 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 12 | I mean in my opinion that 's a good thing , but it 's had the effect of school governors , not having had any training in appointing people , have this sort of stereotyped model in their mind and tend to give promotion to men rather than to women . |
| 13 | The appointment of Oleg Lobov , a former construction engineer and close friend of Mr Yeltsin , as a deputy prime minister responsible for the economy had shifted the balance of power within the government towards the Gosplan-types , who favour a return to central planning and tend to dismiss budget deficits as no more than an accountant 's fancy . |
| 14 | Librarians working in the various educational institutions see their work and their libraries in an active light , and tend to dismiss classification and indexing as necessary but tedious backroom tasks of a housekeeping kind . |
| 15 | Experimenters , who approach an experiment with a belief that their hypothesis will be borne out by the experiment , tend to make mistakes of interpretation that favour their hypothesis and tend to overlook interpretations which are unfavourable to it . |
| 16 | Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks . |
| 17 | It should not be forgotten that any crops sold off the land are ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower fertility . |
| 18 | Burnt sites improve grazing and tend to concentrate herbivores such as elephant and buffalo or antelope , some of which , in turn , attract concentrations of carnivores . |
| 19 | Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . |
| 20 | People communicate mainly verbally , and tend to expect horses to understand not only precise commands like ‘ whoa ! ’ and ‘ trot ! ’ , but also words with a more abstract meaning like ‘ steady ! ’ and ‘ easy ! ’ . |
| 21 | The genealogist has a job to sort it all out , so it is no wonder that many rose lists get into a mess and tend to lump types together more for brevity and convenience than for strict botanical clarity . |
| 22 | Taxes are generally distortionary and tend to reduce efficiency . |
| 23 | Still , it is sometimes possible to infer alterations over time , and one direct conclusion that can be drawn is that part , at least , of landlords ' rationale was economic : within a situation affected by such non-economic factors as pious donations , landlords organised estates and renders to maximise resources . |
| 24 | Marsh 's Man and Nature warned that deforestation upset the natural distribution of water and led to soil erosion . |
| 25 | In the mid-1980s the government had already begun to implement austerity measures which cut spending and led to price rises . |
| 26 | Some organized petitions which urged parliament to initiate reform , while most employed their money and influence to promote godliness . |
| 27 | pregnant and expected to give birth before , or within 2 months following , the last day of the booked holiday . |
| 28 | We 're also told the projected DEC Alpha workstation/server Sandpiper has a little friend called Pelican built around an Alpha Lite chip and expected to give 70% of Sandpiper 's performance . |
| 29 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 30 | Miss Hepburn , 63 , who underwent surgery on Sunday , was listed in fair condition and expected to leave hospital within a week . |