Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may like to add the name of one or two referees to your c.v. , either to vouch for your general honesty and reliability or to confirm that you have the skills and experience you claim in the c.v . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 3 | Members of the group agree to document the project with photographs and notes and to continue it after the Design students graduate . |
| 4 | Frelimo already had some experience of developing schools in the liberated zones before independence , when education was intended to contribute to the liberation struggle , to change people 's consciousness and attitudes and to promote production and combat . |
| 5 | The research aims to examine the effects of attrition and conditioning on the panel , to exploit the analytic advantages of attrition and conditioning on the panel relating to its ability to model dynamic models of human behaviour and attitudes and to investigate the practical aspects of maintaining a panel . |
| 6 | A gene regulating testis determination and derived from a common mammalian ancestor would be expected to be conserved in sequence between eutherians and marsupials and to map to the marsupial Y chromosome . |
| 7 | The whole structure and ambience of local government are community-centred : the electoral ward system produces elected community representatives on councils ; elected members seek to respond to community needs and views and to safeguard community interests ; and councils have a generous array of other policies which engage directly with the quality of life which communities experience . |
| 8 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 9 | The Organization 's aims , as set out in the Charter adopted in 1972 are : ( i ) to promote Islamic solidarity among member states ; ( ii ) to consolidate co-operation among member states in the economic , social , cultural , scientific and other vital fields , and to arrange consultations among member states belonging to international organizations ; ( iii ) to endeavour to eliminate racial segregation and discrimination and to eradicate colonialism in all its forms ; ( iv ) to take necessary measures to support international peace and security founded on justice ; ( v ) to co-ordinate all efforts for the safeguard of the Holy Places and support of the struggle of the people of Palestine , and help them to regain their rights and liberate their land ; ( vi ) to strengthen the struggle of all Muslim people with a view to safegarding their dignity , independence and national rights ; and ( vii ) to create a suitable atmosphere for the promotion of co-operation and understanding among member states and other countries . |
| 10 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 11 | Students are expected to keep records of their work and experience and to monitor their own performance carefully . |
| 12 | The committee needs to be large enough to provide a mix of skills and experience and to permit fruitful discussion encompassing different viewpoints , but small enough to take effective decisions with reasonable speed . |
| 13 | ‘ The Inter-Regional Group called on all voters to adopt resolutions at rallies and meetings and to send letters and telegrams and find other ways to support the demand , ’ Tass reported . |
| 14 | In languages with elaborate case inflections , word order is largely a matter of stylistic variation and is available as a resource to signal emphasis and contrast and to organize messages in a variety of ways . |
| 15 | Students are encouraged to talk to their advisers about their work and progress and to seek assistance , if required , with study or examination skills ; |
| 16 | they provide an opportunity for students to explain their intentions and values and to comment on their own performance , thus contributing to the collaborative nature of the assessment procedure . |
| 17 | Another good solution for dining if the room will take it , is a long old refectory table which , like the library table idea , can be used for piling books and magazines on , for displaying flowers and objects and to provide both work and eating surfaces . |
| 18 | How could she say , politely , that she had better calls on her time and money than to devote either to mendicant little talents ? |
| 19 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 20 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 21 | In his chairman 's statement , Terry Shand explains why the group has taken the opportunity to overhaul the presentation of the annual report and accounts and to include operating and financial reviews . |
| 22 | Erm next , er I shall be proposing a resolution to receive the report and accounts and to declare a dividend . |
| 23 | Afterwards the notes are scanned to identify themes and patterns and to interpret them . |
| 24 | If he was to rule as well as reign he himself had to overthrow Mortimer and Isabella and to do so in a way which would not enhance the power of the magnates . |
| 25 | Furthermore , certain commercial practices such as ‘ meeting competition clauses ’ , ‘ most favoured nation ’ ( MFN ) clauses , and tie-ins that release the buyer if she can find a lower price supplier elsewhere can serve both to ensure information-sharing about discounts and price-cutting and to give ( in the case of MFN clauses ) an incentive not to cut price ( see Salop , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 27 | The same team had earlier met Teeswatch representatives at Wilton to talk about ICI 's environmental improvement plans and policies and to introduce the newly formed Teesside community affairs group , led by Bill Perfitt . |
| 28 | The Labour Party , backed by a sizeable body of informed opinion , wanted to go further and establish a sentencing council ( with strong judicial representation ) to define sentencing aims and policies and to produce guidelines for sentencing over ‘ a range of cases in an inter-related structure ’ . |
| 29 | The grazier 's main problems are to provide leys of palatable and nutritious grasses and clovers and to see that these are consumed in the lush , leafy state before they grow to stem and seed . |
| 30 | ( c ) To apply for , register , purchase , or by other means acquire and protect , prolong and renew , whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere any patents , patent rights , brevets d'invention , licences , secret processes , trade marks , designs , protections and concessions and to disclaim , alter , modify , use and turn to account and to manufacture under or grant licences or privileges in respect of the same , and to expend money in experimenting upon , testing and improving any patents , inventions or rights which the Company may acquire or propose to acquire . |