Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States were urged to take measures to reduce the demand for drugs , and to increase financial contributions so that the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control could expand its work . |
| 2 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 3 | The tendency is to ignore value distinctions and to undermine qualitative difference so that popular and high art genres are presented side by side in a unified space or text . |
| 4 | It is , therefore , proven that a combi-steaner is not only an advantage in the commercial kitchen , but an essential ingredient designed and built to make the chef 's life easier and to realise dramatic savings so that it quickly pays for itself . |
| 5 | This , as I have said but repeat , is to escape into oneself and to abolish emotional relationship altogether because they are too pressurising . |
| 6 | The Committee has the power to employ the services of such advisers and to take such soundings within and outside the Company as it deems necessary to fulfil its responsibilities . |
| 7 | There are growing signs of a desire to abandon the descriptive approach to this material and to examine unknown fields rather than continuing to prove by alternative means what is already known . |