Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 2 | Two of the things dogs often do when anxious are to chew or lose toilet control — and so the whole situation becomes a vicious circle . |
| 3 | ‘ David says you 're to come and say goodbye to Matthew . ’ |
| 4 | A more extreme version would be to compare and explain budget and actuals only for an organization as a whole . |
| 5 | ‘ The first stage must be to strengthen and safeguard freedom of speech and expression by a Freedom of Information Act and by entrenching them in a Bill of Rights . ’ |
| 6 | Only recently has there been some serious debate within multiculturalism about the issues involved , although with very little guidance on how teachers are to approach and facilitate discussion around the inevitable questions which arise regarding the evaluation of different cultural representations , know ledges and practices . |
| 7 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 8 | It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation . |
| 9 | Erm having considered this , I think that what we 've tried to do in the economic activity projections is to try and estimate job need and to try and balance that with an appropriate level of provision to meet that need . |
| 10 | Labour 's new Scottish leader , George Robertson MP , is to try and encourage rebel Tories to join the fight against local government reform . |
| 11 | And it occu It seemed to me therefore that really one could only consider this level o at a strategic issue by looking at the quality of the existing landscape and it seems to me , if the proposition is that you should locate a new settlement to the erm North in the Ryedale sector , er of Greater York , then you 're effectively turning planning on its head because I think the usual approach is to try and steer development to less attractive areas rather than put them in better quality areas . |
| 12 | The program 's goal is to encourage and strengthen supplier relationships and improve communication by defining customer — supplier expectations . |
| 13 | As with any technique , direct mail has basic principles which must be obeyed if the programme is to communicate and raise money over a long period : * It must be regular ( a minimum of eight times a year ) * It must be personal , relevant and informal * It must be good quality * It must ask for and offer something * It must appeal to emotion first and reason second |
| 14 | The aim of the association is to increase and encourage research into the art of the Iberian Peninsula , also at an institutional level . |
| 15 | The abstract principle of feeding is very simple : it is to find and catch food for yourself , while not being caught as food by another . |
| 16 | Knowledge is understood to consist of facts and concepts combined into hierarchies of rules , the purpose of which is to inform and guide practice so that not only will nursing be more efficient but also professional problems not previously encountered by the nurse can be solved . |
| 17 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 18 | However the comparative ease with which energy can be transferred requires a neat balance of opposing forces if any object or event is to persist or acquire longevity . |
| 19 | Very often it 's to try and take advantage of price deals , but also it 's because we now know there perhaps is n't the urgency to buy a holiday in February because we know there 'll be plenty around still in June or July . |
| 20 | The function of the etheric body is to receive and transmit energy or life-force ( prana ) from the air we breathe . |
| 21 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 22 | These time bars are clauses whose purpose and effect is to restrict or exclude liability . |
| 23 | Competition will be channelled into avenues that benefit the organisation , and one of the major tasks of management is to manage and resolve conflict . |
| 24 | She is the chairman of the Animal Defenders Youth Group , whose aim is to expose and alleviate animal suffering . |
| 25 | Which is to keep or prevent coalescence I think er probably ask Mr to comment on that . |
| 26 | The function of the courts is to interpret and apply legislation and not to question its existence ; hence no court can override an Act of Parliament . |
| 27 | ‘ A fundamental task of financial intermediaries is to appraise and assume risk and to charge for it appropriately . |
| 28 | But you 're well aware that the , the best thing to do is try and commit crime under some kind of cover , or |
| 29 | Suppose , for example , that the suggestion I made in Chapter 3 is sound : that there is widespread if tacit agreement that the ultimate point of law is to license and justify state coercion of individuals and groups . |
| 30 | The goal is to market and distribute technology with SVR4.2 enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of their applications that can run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes and even supercomputers , from different vendors and based on different microprocessors . |