Example sentences of "[noun] and [to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to set out the standards of professional conduct expected of members of the Association and to indicate what matters may be regarded by the Disciplinary Committee as being contrary to the aims , objects and interests of the Association or contrary to the profession of librarianship . |
| 2 | We have clearly defined our investment priorities and established the right strategy to meet the challenges which face us , to exploit LASMO 's business strengths and to achieve our objectives . |
| 3 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 4 | The UK wants the citizens of its colony to be involved in settling their future and to give their legislators the final word on any deal . |
| 5 | Finding that he was not there , they ordered two family members and three customers to enter a police minibus and to keep their heads down . |
| 6 | They " are also in a position to explain the new methods and to communicate their virtues . |
| 7 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 8 | This is a positive response to the globalisation of our industry and to provide our customers , particularly those from our established Gulf of Mexico and North Sea regions , with the complete package of Wimpol 's services wherever they operate throughout the world . |
| 9 | For some years schemes have existed to encourage teachers to set out like Victorian missionaries to explore the strange and wild territory of industry and to convert its leaders to an acceptance of the virtues of education . |
| 10 | He set up parish schools and to aid his clergy he wrote an exposition of the Church Catechism , called The Practice of Divine Love . |
| 11 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is tireless in trying to protect defence jobs in south Dorset and to increase their numbers there . |
| 13 | It 's enabled us all to work and to conduct our cases in as an amiable atmosphere as the adversarial system allows , and we are grateful for that . |
| 14 | A tubercular kidney was diagnosed and Laidler was advised to give up office work and to spend his winters abroad . |
| 15 | An employer is obliged to provide a safe system of work and to pay his employees in accordance with the terms of their contracts . |
| 16 | The project will try to go further than a mere description of attitudes or beliefs : the object is to explain their origins in previous experiences and to predict their implications for future action . |
| 17 | He saw one of his jobs as keeping his ear to the ground on Blanche 's behalf , trying to catch discontent while it was no more than a distant rumble and to spot which detectives needed encouragement and which a gentle kick up the backside . |
| 18 | The jurors , having appeared before the king , were induced , probably by threats of amercement and imprisonment , to acknowledge their error and to modify their perambulations ; they then received the king 's pardon . |
| 19 | Well regardless of the hyperbole and the rhetoric , in fact it was an American defeat er he had to accept the existence of a communist regime in Cuba and to keep his hands off it . |
| 20 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 21 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 22 | The military called on all citizens ‘ to share our concern for securing peace and to support our efforts for this . |
| 23 | The truth began to be known only when returned veterans started to piece the story together from hearsay at home and to voice their fears to Congressmen . |
| 24 | Leading journalists covering the particular sport were invited to attend the lunch and to give their views on how the sponsorship could best benefit the sport and on how they would like to be kept in the picture . |
| 25 | It would be usual in this connection for partners to be expressly permitted to act as solicitors for their own families free of charge except for any disbursements or out of pocket expenses incurred by the firm ( Clause 13.05 ) ; ( 3 ) requiring each partner to be responsible for the prompt discharge of his separate obligations and to indemnify his co-partners should circumstances ever arise in which they could be made liable for the same . |
| 26 | In 1696 Louis agreed to give the duke the title of " Royal Highness " in all public acts and to treat his representatives in France as those of a monarch . |
| 27 | The primitive concept of the Libertarian Ideal originally asserted the right of individuals and groups to voice ( perhaps literally ) their opinion in the market-place and to distribute their pamphlets and newsletters to those who passed by . |
| 28 | Fenner , the Hull-based power transmission engineer , bought the stake when the original bid was announced and had offered to act as white knight to Armstrong and to distribute their fasteners through its own international network . |
| 29 | If you decide to join the union you are encouraged to play an active part and to ensure your views are represented . |
| 30 | Their main call was for a return to the 1977 White Paper , namely : ‘ a specific commitment on the part of central and local government to the regeneration of the inner areas … both central and local government will be judged by their willingness to implement new priorities , to make funds available , to change policies and to adapt their organisations , ( DoE , 1977 , para. 25 ) . |