Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping the sufferer to take the risks of self-disclosure and to acknowledge the need for emotional and practical support and help from others . |
| 2 | Yes , in a way it is , it helps to clear the mind of all sorts of rubbish and to focus attention on improving the family member 's own life . |
| 3 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 4 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |
| 5 | The next step is to enrich the behavioural repertoire used in communication by imitating the signals of others and to associate the performance of signals with the context in which they are given . |
| 6 | Further work is needed to enable those specialist groups with support to offer to identify indicators of vulnerability and to find ways to reach their most needy group . |
| 7 | It may be appropriate just to state this intention in the heads of agreement and to leave the detailed description , which should be in greater detail than is normal in statutory accounts ( i.e. the policy for holiday pay accrual etc ) to the purchase and sale agreement . |
| 8 | Thus the adjectival goals of this study are not only ( 1 ) to describe the various adjectival constructions of English and to show what they mean , but also ( 2 ) to use this account of constructional meaning in order to explain why many particular combinations of lexical items and constructions are ungrammatical when other similar ones are not ; ( 3 ) to explain why many such combinations have the interpretations which they do ; and ( 4 ) to explain just why the above are the adjectival positions of English . |
| 9 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 10 | By 1762 his profitable practice enabled Fothergill to purchase Ham House in Upton with about thirty acres of land and to embark on the creation of an outstanding garden . |
| 11 | The report sought ‘ to reflect the organic relationship between the various aspects of English and to emphasise the need for continuity in their development through school life ’ . |
| 12 | Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level . |
| 13 | Another way of extending everyone 's view of a school and of diminishing the opposition to change within it , is to acknowledge one of the less fashionable aspects of management and to make a virtue of it . |
| 14 | For example , it is possible now for word processors with spelling checkers to take over some of the proof-reading aspects of writing and to produce impeccable print-out . |
| 15 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 16 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 17 | to develop in children the skills of recording and to introduce them to a variety of ways of presenting mathematical ideas ( eg graphs , charts , diagrams ) |
| 18 | These can be used to sharpen skills of inference and to focus on underlying attitudes , prejudices and entrenched beliefs , about which even the subject himself may not have been fully conscious . |
| 19 | pointed out , at p. 327d , this House , while upholding the Court of Appeal 's order requiring the respondents to allow access to premises for the purpose of looking for illicit copies of films and to allow them to be removed to safe custody , also upheld that court 's refusal of an order to answer interrogatories and to make discovery of documents relating to the illicit copies , including ‘ invoices … books of accounts , letters , lists or other documents . ’ |
| 20 | In an attempt to sway Scottish shareholders of Distillers and to influence Scottish public opinion ( which was anxious that a merger with Guinness might reduce Distillers ' involvement in Scotland ) , Guinness promised during the campaign that the ‘ largest part of our business will be Scottish-based ’ , that Scotland would be the ‘ decision-making centre ’ of the company and that Sir Thomas Risk , Governor of the Bank of Scotland , would be appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the combined group . |
| 21 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |
| 22 | That has prompted investors to demand ratings from more issuers of debt and to take the ratings more seriously . |
| 23 | My original purpose in writing this was to warn of the dangers of censorship and to provoke debate in the lesbian and gay communities . |
| 24 | It requires collective agreement in the form of government to define the property rights that are the objects of exchange and to enforce contract through the legal system . |
| 25 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 26 | The pupils were asked to plot pairs of points and to try to find a rule for working out the coordinates of the midpoints of the lines joining these pairs of points . |
| 27 | They are supposed to crush politicial uprisings , act as a kind of home guard in times of war and to guard buildings . |
| 28 | We are able to become objective observers of the patterns of play and to take pleasure in their endless variations on central themes . |
| 29 | There is a limited number of pitch patterns in any one language , and they are used to produce definite , meaningful effects ; because of this it is possible to describe frequently recurring patterns of pitch and to give rules for their use . |
| 30 | One aim of the questionnaire is to identify the different forms of dissemination and to elicit grant holders ' opinions as to the difficulties and possibilities of disseminating their work . |