Example sentences of "and [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | As discussed earlier , this requires schools to prepare pupils for the ‘ experiences and opportunities of adult life ’ and to promote their spiritual , moral , cultural , mental and physical development . |
| 2 | The aims of this project are to document those employee development strategies where they exist ; and to promote their articulation , where they do not . |
| 3 | Designed to preserve regional languages and to promote their use in education , government , administration , the courts , the media and cultural activities , the convention defined a minority language as one " traditionally spoken " by a group of people " numerically inferior " within the population of any state . |
| 4 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 5 | It was this that led testators to value them and to confirm their wills in trust form . |
| 6 | The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services . |
| 7 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |
| 8 | Oxford English primary materials generate high levels of motivation and involvement by inviting children to participate in activities designed to appeal to youngsters and to stimulate their ever-inquisitive minds . |
| 9 | And to stimulate their observation we must give them suitable subjects , within their personal experience — and we must see that they get the experience of looking and observing the visual world around them . |
| 10 | This is Dr G 's dilemma : that although he tries to inculcate students with a sense of the beauty and joy of the subject , and to stimulate their minds , they often refuse to think , or to be critical and regard physics in an entirely instrumental way , as a degree to be gained , which will enable them to do something ‘ useful ’ , namely defence research . |
| 11 | I want to offer them light , colour , romance , and to stimulate their imaginations . |
| 12 | They are organised to allow the users choice over what to see , in the correct time sequence , and to post their own contributions . |
| 13 | And if they are to develop critical abilities , and to see their work in a wider perspective , that too must be built into the curriculum and not just expected to happen . |
| 14 | It existed to ‘ speak for artists and art organisations , to offer them advice , to argue for them and to champion their interests in the media and to government whenever and wherever the need may arise ’ . |
| 15 | The growth of collective action by States through international organisations has been achieved primarily through treaties which have been used to define the competence of international organisations , and to perform their functions . |
| 16 | Working-class hostility was roused by the fear of the police being used to control industrial and political organization , and to curb their recreational activities under the guise of maintaining public order in the streets . |
| 17 | ‘ Our objective is to develop communication through a mutual learning process which would enable the tribal groups to be aware of their cultural heritage and to embrace their history , ’ explained LAMP 's General Secretary , M Dewanji . |
| 18 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 21 | Students are expected to keep records of their work and experience and to monitor their own performance carefully . |
| 22 | To this end they proposed that ‘ a small number of planning assessors should be appointed to give help and advice to local planning authorities and to monitor their performance by continual and informal contact ’ . |
| 23 | RESERVES : The foreign currencies governments hold to settle bills abroad and to support their currency if need be . |
| 24 | That parishes set up a worship committee , where there is none , in order to advise the incumbent and Parochial Church Council , and to support their organist or director of music ( 555–556 , 579–580 ) . |
| 25 | Since Japan and Britain scrapped their exchange controls in 1979 and remaining European controls disappeared during the late 1980s , investors have been far freer to seek out the best returns and to diversify their risks . |
| 26 | The French ports have been particularly vociferous in pressing for compensation and in January 1986 the French government made a package of aid available to Calais , Boulogne , Dunkirk and Dieppe to upgrade their deep water and other maritime facilities and to diversify their local economies . |
| 27 | Fundamentals of economic relations between the USSR and the Union and Autonomous Republics , approved on April 26 and due to enter into force on Jan. 1 , 1991 , empowered union and autonomous republics among other things to own and utilize their land and natural resources ; to set their own budgets ; to levy taxes ; and to conduct their own foreign economic relations . |
| 28 | : To repeat the investigations of the OALD and CED with much increased sample size , and to compare their performance with that of the LDOCE . |
| 29 | This allowed farmers to decide whether the programme was relevant to their particular needs and to arrange their farm work or time off . |
| 30 | The use of family therapy techniques throughout the process of recruiting and training new parents , and preparing children for placement , helps them to be familiar with such techniques and to acknowledge their value when problems develop . |