Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were they excluded from most professions , but efforts were made to prevent them acquiring land and to restrict their access to secondary and higher education . |
| 2 | We hope that these methods will help teachers themselves to enjoy poetry and to share their pleasure with their pupils : ‘ Poetry needs to be at the heart of work in English because of the quality of language at work on experience that it offers to us . |
| 3 | To set incentives and to monitor their impact requires reliable measures of what waste is produced and where : the next article examines how far countries agree on what counts as waste , and how much they know about its origins and destiny . |
| 4 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 5 | These contacts will also allow partners to share expertise and to improve their knowledge of the education and training systems of other member states , as well as learning more about their partners ' local communities . |
| 6 | However , the increased productivity of labour may help many firms to cut costs , enabling them to reduce prices and to expand their levels of output , thereby increasing their demands for all factor inputs , including labour . |
| 7 | Put simply , the Urban Studies Centre seeks to equip students to understand children and to sharpen their insight . |
| 8 | If the prime task of the teacher is to help children acquire nationally agreed learning skills and to deepen their understanding of the concepts which underpin particular academic disciplines , then the way subject matter is presented and used in the classroom requires to be reappraised . |
| 9 | It is not always easy to describe conventions and to determine their force and strength . |
| 10 | The Canadian parliament recently extended patent protection after pharmaceutical companies promised to control prices and to increase their spending on research into new drugs . |
| 11 | These trends are perhaps not surprising but it should be noted that the result will be for schools in disadvantaged areas to lose pupils and to increase their unit costs per pupil . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Moreover , while the new narrative has undoubtedly been influenced by European and North-American fiction , and by Joyce , Faulkner and the nouveau roman in particular , the new novelists have had the maturity and self-confidence to assimilate influences and to develop their own distinctive literary voice , and thus to make their own original contribution to world literature . |
| 14 | They argue , instead , that this relationship is motivated by the requirements of the ruling class and their desire to maintain profitability and to sustain their political control over society . |
| 15 | Cabbies have been known to overcharge , to threaten passengers and to hurl their luggage around with little concern as to where it lands . |
| 16 | Divisional Manager , Brian Walker ( pictured left ) said : ‘ Southern Electric are delighted to be able to help young people , who are striving to overcome disabilities and to gain their independence . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Christian National Education was designed to fit white people to remain rulers and to enhance their belief in their moral and racial superiority . |
| 18 | Through his arrangement of spaces , and his location of individuals within them , Bentham used the plan form of the Panopticon to facilitate the flow of information to supervisory staff , so placing them in a position , as Hume ( 1981 p 5 ) explained : " to detect and punish disobedience and to adapt their policies and decisions to changing circumstances and varying performances . " |
| 19 | The therapist 's role is to instigate contracts and to encourage their implementation [ see Chapter 8 of Stuart ( 1980 ) for further details of contractual therapy with couples ] . |
| 20 | If we have to agree to others performing tasks in exchange for the tasks we perform , we at the same time grant licences to them to become expert and to use their expertise on our behalf . |
| 21 | In The Mind Field Robert Ornstein , a psychologist , attempts to give a balanced view of the cults , current in the US , that purport to bring self-knowledge and to change their disciples ' consciousness . |