Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users of financial statements are encouraged to identify which of the disclosure requirements proposed in the FRED they consider especially useful or unnecessary and to state their reasons , and also to state any further disclosure requirements which they believe would be useful . |
| 2 | It would be interesting to note also the stresses that occur from time to time , be they physical , mental or emotional and to observe their effect on health . |
| 3 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |
| 4 | ’ The Californian crusader looks set to win a big enough protest vote in this second biggest state of the country — after his own — to make Clinton look less than presidential and to keep the character question hanging over him . |
| 5 | The NCCSL 's Department of Communication was set up in 1975 , mainly to produce radio programmes in English Sinhala and Tamil and to promote audio visual aids to make Sunday School teaching more effective . |
| 6 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 7 | At the extraordinary congress in December the 2,000 delegates had adopted a programme which committed the Socialist Party to act as a " barrier to the right and extreme-right and to pursue economic modernization , social justice , and the construction of Europe " . |
| 8 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 9 | Students should be asked to consider particular items of costs that are traditionally classified as variable and fixed and to comment how they would expect them to behave over activity levels in reality . |
| 10 | The way that had been made through the fallen rock was very narrow and uneven and to take John out he was laid on a board and pushed along as if on a sledge . |
| 11 | Most people affected by HIV have an inner need to make sense of the experience of living and dying and to do so with hope and creativity . |
| 12 | As long as its concern ( in the absence of a vision ) is for ‘ maintaining the ethos of Anglicanism ’ , it is doomed to grow old and cold and to die . |
| 13 | To pay for this , Galileo was made to kneel and admit to being vain and ambitious and to abjure the Copernican doctrine as being wrong . |
| 14 | Oliver liked things to be finished and shiny and to look as if they cost a lot . |
| 15 | This type of notice filing is intended to be simple , inexpensive and expeditious and to put persons on notice that a charge has been registered so that they can take whatever steps they consider appropriate to protect their interests . |
| 16 | So that 's a , a pedicure , which helps you to have your toe nails nice and short and to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 17 | [ The ] function of [ the criminal law ] , as we see it , is to preserve public order and decency , to protect the citizen from what is offensive and injurious and to provide sufficient safeguards against exploitation or corruption of others , particularly those who are specially vulnerable because they are young , weak in body or mind or inexperienced … |
| 18 | In anticipation of the meeting of the Agriculture Council , will my right hon. Friend re-commit the Government to the search for an equitable basis on which to reduce farm prices within the European Community and worldwide and to reduce trade barriers as well ? |
| 19 | The journey had been long , hot and tiring and to add to my list I did n't really want to come home . |
| 20 | The Greenpeace report , which studied the toxic waste incinerator plans of 18 countries , claimed incinerator technology to be unsafe and inefficient and to put communities at risk from dangerous waste products . |
| 21 | They are short and thin and to take a reasonable stride forward with its hind leg , the newt has to flex its body laterally . |
| 22 | He will help you to observe the legal requirements and to name Executors to carry out your instructions , to appoint guardians if necessary and to cancel any previous Wills . |
| 23 | It wants to be ruled and oppressed and to fear its masters . |
| 24 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 25 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 26 | It wants to be efficient and competitive and to preserve social peace and the cohesion of the state with society . |
| 27 | In its 130-page publication on the subject , an aspiring paperback writer has seen fit to throw in quotes and subtitles taken from famous Beatles ' songs , which is apparently intended ‘ to disrupt the close relationship between the thinkable and speakable and to think the otherwise unspeakable ’ . |
| 28 | The Conference would wish all who may take part in the referendum to recognize that Protestant Churches are pro-Life but anti-amendment and to query whether they wish a clause in the constitution unacceptable to Protestant churches . |
| 29 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 30 | Something has to be done about the imbalances in the city 's health services in order to provide better value for Londoners as quickly as possible and to lay the foundations for future development . |