Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm To take just one point out of it , much influenced by Freud , he emphasizes the enormous importance to transcend the morality of repression and self-control which leads to cruelty and obsession , and fear in the name of virtue , and to cultivate instead a much more open-minded self-knowledge . |
| 2 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 3 | Voters were asked whether they wished to change the current system — by which voters indicated four candidates from their chosen party in a descending order of preference — and to use instead a system allowing one vote for one candidate only . |
| 4 | The goal of the second chapter , which examines judicial and police arrangements , is twofold : to describe the administrative setting in which crime was committed and repressed , and to put forward an interpretation of the legal system . |
| 5 | On April 4 , 1988 , the then US Secretary of Defence , Frank Carlucci , visited New Delhi to discuss regional security issues and to put together a US arms package . |
| 6 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 7 | But where provision is organised on the principle of selectivity , as in the health and personal welfare sectors , more complex assessment is required in order both to ration ( or target ) resources , and to link correctly an applicant to what is available . |
| 8 | De Castelnau paused at Avize to quell the pessimism at de Langle 's HQ and to telephone ahead a warning to poor Herr not to yield any more ground , or ‘ the consequences would be most grave for him [ Herr ] ’ . |
| 9 | Spatial boundaries may vary in their openness , the degree to which they permit outsiders to inspect the phenomenon in question , to find out what goes on and to gain thereby a knowledge of it and a competence in dealing with it . |
| 10 | Chon criticized Nakahira 's calls for North Korea to resume inter-Korean talks and to sign unconditionally a nuclear safeguards accord with the International Atomic Energy Agency , saying that this constituted interference in North Korean affairs and " artificial obstacles " to the normalization of relations . |
| 11 | If electrification is linked to the spur line , it will not be necessary for me to do what my right hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point ( Sir B. Braine ) had to do only recently , which was to get the chairman of British Rail to attend another terminus in London and to make quite a row in order for some action to be taken . |
| 12 | Acceptance of pain was the bridge that enabled a girl to relinquish her hope that her clitoris would become a penis , and to become instead a mature woman whose sexuality was focused upon her vagina . |
| 13 | The students need to take with them to the placement properly prepared work-assignments requiring them , with the assistance of hotel staff , to observe some things , to do others and to enquire about a third group . |