Example sentences of "[noun sg] and to bring " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , the categories of duty can not be regarded as being closed ; they have been held to include a general duty to enforce the law , to detect and prevent crime and to bring the offender to justice , to prevent harm to persons and property and to preserve evidence . |
| 2 | As part of the general plan to reshape agricultural education to meet the changing needs of the industry and to bring it more in line with the rest of further education , the National Advisory Council on Education for Industry and Commerce appointed a committee late in 1970 , under the chairmanship of Professor J.P . |
| 3 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 4 | The young Ulster Youth Dance company has already shown that the dancers have the ability to match the dramatic intensity and sensitivity of this great work and to bring it triumphantly to life . |
| 5 | For the US there is still time , through the negotiations in Geneva , to display a flexible attitude and to bring about at least a reduction in the number of SS-20s , and hence to reduce the need for cruise . |
| 6 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 7 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 8 | Recently , moreover , as we shall see , the courts have tended to erode and rationalise the rule so as to reduce the ambit of strict liability and to bring the rule more into line with the predominant modern philosophy of no liability without fault . |
| 9 | ‘ It was an attack on the whole community — on sick children and their parents , on old people whose much-needed operations will have to be delayed , on the medical staff who devotedly care for them , and on the security forces who will continue to defend the community and to bring terrorists to justice . ’ |
| 10 | Just as the emergency services and the staff at Musgrave Park hospital reacted with superlative speed and dedication to allay the effects of this atrocity , so the security forces — to whom I pay the warmest of tributes — will continue with vigorous and impartial professionalism to defend the community and to bring suspected terrorists to justice . |
| 11 | He yelled for union solidarity to support the strike and to bring management to their knees , but to no avail . |
| 12 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 13 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 14 | Of mongrel breed themselves , the Jews were purportedly engaged in a conspiracy to bastardize the races of mankind and to bring the natural nation states of the world under the control of a one-world Jewish superstate . |
| 15 | Implicit in the use of direct observation was the need to work in the outside environment and to bring objects from the outside environment into the classroom . |
| 16 | Lucy went — and as she walked back to the office she wondered what had got into her to cause such unruliness of her tongue and to bring her claws to the surface . |
| 17 | Eyre had two main tasks in Scotland : to prepare for the restoration of the national hierarchy and to bring peace to the church in the west , where relations between Scottish clergy and ever-increasing Irish immigrant laity had become seriously embittered . |
| 18 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |
| 19 | Welcomed by the USA and the EC , it allowed countries to maintain existing curbs on foreign-controlled financial services in their territory and to bring in liberalization measures at their own pace . |
| 20 | The example was quoted of the Social Work Department being extensively restructured to meet the requirements of the Community Care legislation and to bring the service closer to the consumer . |
| 21 | AI has called on the authorities to initiate an independent inquiry into the incident and to bring those responsible for extrajudicial executions to justice . |
| 22 | The objective was to curb recent influxes of foreign capital and to bring the escudo closer into line with the major EC currencies . |
| 23 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 24 | Lord James promised to monitor the situation and to bring legislation forward if it were proved it was needed . |
| 25 | The common failure to produce such explanations threatens to undermine the clear principles of resource allocation as stated in the original RAWP report and to bring NHS formulas into disrepute . |
| 26 | Erm one possible way round the I suppose would be for the county council to amend the explan explanatory memorandum er as a matter of urgency and to bring forward in it er or or at least to acknowledge some of the the matters that have been raised . |
| 27 | Mr Lapointe says CITES needs at least $4m ( £2.4m ) to enlarge the role of the Convention and to bring in more money to support its policing work . |
| 28 | In practice rejection of requests is very rare ; examples reported to the 1977 Special Commission of the Hague Conference included attempts to serve documents on the monarch of the state of destination and to bring proceedings against judges or police chiefs . |
| 29 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 30 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |