Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to target and then monitor reform-minded governments — Ecuador might be the first — and create ‘ islands of integrity ’ : countries whose officials abjure bribery in the hope of shaming others into doing the same . |
| 2 | I mean that is really , in a sense , what we 're all about at the International Disaster Institute , is to try and carefully work out what happens to people in various parts of the world . |
| 3 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 4 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 5 | To live the gesture in immobility is to evoke and therefore to have observed the gesture . |
| 6 | The first interest is to win and then to help the team who pays you and looks after you , but there is a right way of doing it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The knowledge society ’ requires new forms of dialogue between professionals and citizens , if society is to comprehend and effectively confront the problems facing it . |
| 8 | Health check:A free company health check to help businesses cut costs is on offer from Barclays Commercial Services the aim is to identify and then set about solving cash flow problems . |
| 9 | As Gandhi shows clearly , the purpose of satyāgraha , which is the technique of ahi sā , which in turn in its positive connotation means the love that endures all things and never fails , is to convert and not to coerce those against which it is directed . |
| 10 | ‘ The eventual aim is to clear and then re-develop the entire area , ’ he added . |
| 11 | The objective is to revise and almost reverse the traditional accountancy concept of man-power as a resource consuming factor requiring regular payments , overheads in the form of heated , lighted , equipped workspaces and so on . |
| 12 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 13 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |