Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the company has achieved segmentation it can more clearly concentrate and aim its promotional effort at a particular target market . |
| 2 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 3 | This helps me concentrate and drift into more intense areas of thought . |
| 4 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 5 | Do you keep some record of God 's goodness to help you commemorate and celebrate ? |
| 6 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 7 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 8 | ‘ My initial ambition was to do Broadway productions , to dance , act and sing . |
| 9 | With God as the absorbing focus of our lives , we can act and love , trust and desire , in ever-deepening channels that flow into the ocean itself . |
| 10 | He uses this view to argue how forward-looking companies should act and contrasts strongly the modern global corporation with the ageing multinational corporation . |
| 11 | Kylie can sing , act and dance and is unique . ’ |
| 12 | Did n't the girls act and dance well ? |
| 13 | We must never forget that people do not act and make choices in a vacuum . |
| 14 | every anthropologist has experienced ‘ culture shock ’ ; a temporary inability to grasp and act and think in the terms of the assumptions upon which the newly entered culture is based . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend consider advising local authorities — which still seem to be unaware of their present powers on which they can act and circulating information to them to tell them that if they want to come down on Sunday traders , the statute book in Britain already gives them that authority ? |
| 16 | Although history is deterministic there is still the need for workers to unite and act and accept the invitation to join in the great drama of history . |
| 17 | The scholars of the Renaissance courts studied in depth the philosophy and dictates of classical authors and applied their knowledge to the education of courtiers , so that they would act and behave correctly in the new society . |
| 18 | It is when we do not act and behave as Jesus ' followers that adultery can take place , followed by legal proceedings for divorce . |
| 19 | DEC will sell , install and service the Auspex servers . |
| 20 | Utilities Xtradrive is one of those bits of software you can install and forget — in every test we 've thrown at it , it has been totally transparent to the user — but even so , there are some interesting utilities included with it . |
| 21 | 2.1 also includes JumpStart , a way to automatically install and configure hundreds of systems across a network ; Online : Backup , the industry 's first product for restoring and backing up 2. x data across a network with the machines still active ; and Shield , C2 security . |
| 22 | And Sun Microsystems Installed Base Group , the European division responsible for touting third-party peripherals to the Sun aftermarket , will market , install and support Xylogic 's Annex Three communications server as its local area network server . |
| 23 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |
| 24 | Recent cases , where health authorities have overspent , have usually stemmed from a failure to properly install and operate such a system . |
| 25 | Only after unsuccessful attempts in 1949 , 1950 , and 1951 did he seek and find funds for a new boat , called , like all his cars and boats , ‘ Bluebird ’ . |
| 26 | The inclusion of Silk Protein helps maintain the natural water balance to protect , condition and restore the elasticity of hair . |
| 27 | Wella Balsam Wash & Care Plus has been developed to clean , condition and strengthen your hair — all in one easy step . |
| 28 | They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding . |
| 29 | It would jump and shudder and you would have a very uncomfortable ride . |
| 30 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |