Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The package is the council 's direct response to the need to provide women with sensible and practical advice on personal safety , and importantly to help reduce the fear of crime . |
| 2 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 3 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 4 | Inside , the rear seat squab can be slid 7in to and fro to give a choice of more rear leg room or extra boot space , and the back rest tilts through 30° . |
| 5 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 6 | Patiently I told him what was in the envelope , bending it to and fro to show that it would n't explode . |
| 7 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 9 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 10 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 11 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 12 | After his work in geometry perhaps Hilbert 's greatest wish was to prove the consistency of arithmetic and thereby to resolve the " foundations-crisis " that attracted philosophers such as Bertrand Russell . |
| 13 | This Act aims to make public and thereby to control the use of personal data held on all types of computerised equipment . |
| 14 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 15 | The prime object of the society was to secure the adoption of the continental , or Leibnizian , notation for the calculus , in preference to the Newtonian notation then used in England , and thereby to open English mathematics to the eighteenth-century continental developments . |
| 16 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 17 | Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them . |
| 18 | The fact that the maintenance of the hunting bands depended on a traumatic event and its consequences meant that those bands had a reason for needing to repeat the trauma , or at least some effective representation of it , and thereby to perpetuate its consequences — the taboos forbidding incest and parricide . |
| 19 | They use them as stamps or cutters with dough and clay , but in conception they were intended for sorting and matching and thereby to link in with games and toys . |
| 20 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 21 | The objectives of the research are to increase understanding of the problems and difficulties associated with implementing performance management in a single government policy area which straddles central government , local government and a range of statutory agencies ; and to evaluate those changing practices across a spectrum of organisations and thereby to assess the quality of approach in order to disseminate best practice . |
| 22 | In arguing , one not only expresses one 's own position , but seeks to criticize , and thereby to negate , the counter-position . |
| 23 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 24 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |
| 25 | Section 1(3) shows that in order to interpret the word ‘ appropriates ’ ( and thereby to define theft ) , sections 1 to 6 must be read together . |
| 26 | There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order . |
| 27 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 28 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 29 | Perception , therefore , at least in the human domain , seems to involve being able to talk about what we see , hear , or smell , and thereby to entertain beliefs about its objects . |
| 30 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |