Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 2 | At Level One students will work as individuals or in small groups to plan and carry out an investigation into an aspect of Community Welfare with limited support from the tutor . |
| 3 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 4 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 5 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 6 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 7 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 8 | However , even the most well-meaning attempts to induce and promote local enterprise may sometimes result in little in terms of quantifiable gains to the community at large . |
| 9 | Assessing the effects of LEA programmes to monitor and evaluate the quality of schooling |
| 10 | As Keith Evans rightly reminded us , some attempts to stimulate and support resource-based learning resulted in " magnificently equipped Resource Centres with highly trained stall , from which teachers retreat , their confidence undermined ! " |
| 11 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 12 | Whatever meaning this image had had in Charlemagne 's day , Walahfrid invited his contemporaries to compare and contrast the miserly , heretical , tyrannous Theodoric with the generous , orthodox and merciful Louis . |
| 13 | The terminal , known as the operator terminal , which the operator will use to monitor the offline run and to indicate success or failure of requests to mount or dismount the appropriate offline media items . |
| 14 | We thus turn to investors ' attitudes to risk and return . |
| 15 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 16 | All of these controls are , however misguided , attempts to cope and to preserve self-respect that make sense within the person 's framework of assumptions and values . |
| 17 | There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins . |
| 18 | This course provides the required knowledge and skills to plan and conduct improvement programmes for tree species . |
| 19 | I know that he appreciates the importance of infrastructure improvements to stimulate and encourage inward investment . |
| 20 | Also , if the government is serious about developing decent employment opportunities for women , the training and educational agencies will have to look to broadening their remits to include and promote non-traditional areas of work for women . |
| 21 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 22 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 23 | Expansion of fundholding would not allow for representation of other professional and lay groups in the purchasing process , and would be difficult for family health services authorities to monitor and manage . |
| 24 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 25 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 26 | It is most unlikely that this is a special case , either in terms of product ( detergents are a typical branded and highly competitive consumer product ) or location ( Barbados has no exceptional rules to encourage or discourage TNC products or advertising ) . |
| 27 | ATTITUDES TO AGE AND AGEING |
| 28 | Such a visit should involve talking to personnel to try and understand something of their jobs and to work out how best to tell the story in visual form . |
| 29 | This section operates where the clause attempts to exclude or restrict business liability as defined in s. 1(3) . |
| 30 | Erm amongst other things erm ceasing the responsibility of local authorities to provide sites erm have the new powers to move er illegal or unauthorised erm on , from the land including er , season caravans in certain instances erm the curtailment by the government of er , grants for local authorities to provide and construct sites having spent fifty six million pounds erm doing just that since nineteen seventy eight according to the report . |