Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 2 | If he knew it was a matter of international security I 'm certain he would n't object to having the crate opened . ’ |
| 3 | Every employer should have a written but flexible plan which sets out business goals and targets , considers how employees will contribute to achieving the plan and specifies how development needs in particular will be assessed and met . |
| 4 | In this area , theological colleges can contribute to redefining the meaning of a Christian presence in societies which are in transition — such as Spain and Portugal . |
| 5 | But it is extremely difficult to predict the developments in market demands and production techniques which will occur in the next 25 years and which might contribute to determining the size of each of these industries . |
| 6 | Increasing the range and diversity of role models children meet in mathematical textbooks and building on the knowledge they have already acquired are two of the ways we can contribute to building the self-esteem shown in many Government reports to be crucial for success . |
| 7 | However this summer a temporary programme coordinator has visited the region and a short term programme of material support to children 's homes has been provided and we are now working to put other facilities in s to institutions in Serbia and are hoping that through the restructuring of children 's services , when the conflict is over and we believe obviously that may be some off , that we can tri can contribute to meeting the longer term needs of children in that war torn zone . |
| 8 | For this reason , government-provided services which reduced such high rates would contribute to raising the national wealth . |
| 9 | You will find that even when you are very new to the surgical ward , you can contribute to reducing the effect of some of these factors by simple strategies such as introducing yourself by name to new patients and offering your help while they adjust to their new situation . |
| 10 | But market research , opinion polls and academic ‘ advisors ’ confirmed politicians in their belief that it might contribute to swaying the decision of the 3–4 per cent of ‘ floating ’ electors ; these votes could decide the election . |
| 11 | The two positive requirements are that the agreement must first contribute to improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress and second allow consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit . |
| 12 | You may contribute to running the Home by attending its residents ' committee meetings . |
| 13 | Many factors , such as differences between social classes in attitudes to marriage , could explain or contribute to explaining the difference . |
| 14 | The SOC Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An said that the US move would contribute to preventing the return to power of the Khmers Rouges and would raise living standards . |
| 15 | The plan did , however , contribute to fuelling the debate about a possible common European defence policy outside the structure of NATO itself [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ] , whether within the existing Western European Union ( WEU ) , or by an extension of the sphere of activity of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 16 | ‘ The research … will contribute to overcoming the effects of sweet potato weevil which has become an insurmountable problem to control with conventional approaches , ’ says the company . |
| 17 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 18 | Others may resort to laybacking the slightly rightward-leaning crack . |
| 19 | Take the plunge and opt for change , you 'll soon begin to fell the benefits . |
| 20 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 21 | Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student . |
| 22 | I am told that the same considerations of constituency difficulty , demography and geography would apply to rearranging the constituencies within Scotland . |
| 23 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 24 | One consequence of public anxiety is an increasing demand for scientists with the specific skills of chemists , geoscientists , biologists etc , who are aware of the contribution that their own discipline can make to understanding the environment and are sufficiently acquainted with other disciplines to enable them to work in multi-disciplinary teams . |
| 25 | Publishers will be wise to emphasise the contribution that good levels of book provision can make to limiting the need for special help for school children at a later stage . |
| 26 | In short , while accepting that no conclusive view on the effects of the separation of ownership and control is possible , it is important to enquire what contribution the law and structural reform might make to closing the disciplinary gap . |
| 27 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 28 | With regard to verifying the accuracy of the published waiting times , mechanisms are in place through which general practitioners and community health councils can feed back the current situation to the health authority . |
| 29 | I enclose herewith an extract from Spare Rib Magazine , in which reference is made to an agreement between Spare Rib Magazine and W H Smith in regard to placing the magazine in the Women 's Section . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the aims of the Children Act 1989 with regard to improving the welfare of children . |