Example sentences of "[noun sg] and to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are trying to drag them here so as to get direct investment and to get foreign capital without incurring foreign debt . |
| 2 | Often she would go to Nairobi or the coast for a break and to get supplies . |
| 3 | In the light of what surely must be a changed forecast , will the right hon. Gentleman review his hostility so far to careful public expenditure designed to create infrastructure improvements for the future and to get the economy moving ? |
| 4 | There is a need to create a positive view of research and to get tired and defensive staff to look beyond their immediate responsibilities and worries . |
| 5 | You will need the time to orient yourself to your new way of eating and to get plenty of relaxation . |
| 6 | For the next hour or two , Mr Handford tried to rectify the fault in the chilly darkness , but as it proved impossible , he decided to wait until daylight and to get some sleep meanwhile . |
| 7 | Once lying down , the patient may practise the movements needed to move into lying on his side and to get up out of bed : for these , he needs to be able to move his shoulder girdle , trunk and pelvis in isolation from each other . |
| 8 | Mr Bailes ' little place was situated about half way along Highburn village and to get into the farmyard you had to walk twenty yards or so between five-foot walls . |
| 9 | It 'll take time , there 'll be years more learning but my priority is to define an action plan and to get it done . ’ |
| 10 | To help clear anxiety and to get it into the open , to put on record and share responsibility . |
| 11 | The challenge for the chief executive of such a sprawling firm is to introduce a clear sense of direction and to get sales and profits to grow faster than the American , and preferably the world , economy . |
| 12 | Erm by nineteen forty eight no in in nineteen forty seven with the rise of absolute egalitarianism , the policy of narrowing its base had helped them to erm get the peasant support and to get into power but that was no longer necessary erm and the radicalization of land reform it appears had been based upon false premises which had created problems in the countryside and the Party . |
| 13 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 14 | The main ways these non-enrollers said they would surmount the earlier difficulties were to save money and to get more qualifications . |
| 15 | You know that it is extremely risky to leave the choice late and that , at the very latest , you must be organised in time to have a good look at the proposed field and to get into a good position for a proper base leg . |
| 16 | Goldwater 's enemies presented the Senator as a harsh , uncompromising ideologue , a threatening figure likely to abolish social security and to get the United States involved in a nuclear war . |
| 17 | One , a centre-spread from NSS , read : ‘ Liberal Democrat supporter voting Labour in this constituency : Tactical voting for electoral reform and to get rid of the Tories . ’ |
| 18 | It is already obvious that the columns vary according to the point size , you can get away quite happily with two columns across an A4 in 12 point , three would be better in 10 point and to get four you 'll need to go down to perhaps 8 point . |
| 19 | There 's no panacea ; er it will take us a little while to get our programmes in place and to get them producing results . |
| 20 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |
| 21 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ We are trying to quantify an art and to get rid of the mystery around the shoemaking craft , ’ said Geoffrey Egan , the development and engineering manager . |
| 23 | You need your Warlord near his troops to pass on the benefits of his leadership and to get stuck in alongside the Boyz . |
| 24 | Your first tasks are amongst the hardest : to clear your head and to get down to really thinking through the essence of your project : |
| 25 | Thus , for example , in the National Health Service groups such as the consultants , junior doctors , administrators , nursing staff , GPs and so on , will all be striving to influence the organisation and to get their views accepted by the organisation . |
| 26 | The best alternative is for people to cross the platform and to get away to where they want . |
| 27 | As one reads his account one has evidence of the capability of human beings to triumph , albeit in limited terms , over adversity and to get on with ‘ the business of living ’ . |
| 28 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 29 | She was taken back into the house and made to fill a bath and to get into it . |
| 30 | I want slick passing , quick passing and to get the ball BEHIND the defence occasionally . |