Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students , in addition to monitoring progress in their chose pursuit(s) , will be expected to identify the skills they have used in planning , undertaking and reviewing the activities and to recognise the transferability of these skills . |
| 2 | The golfers , four amateurs of handicaps ranging from 13 to 5 and four professionals , were told not to waggle the clubs or to bend the shaft on the ground but just to hit the ball . |
| 3 | First , members of the public , as local government electors , have the right to inspect , question and object to the accounts and to question and take issue with the auditor on matters arising in his or her report . |
| 4 | In essence , each of the four agreed to contribute a quarter of the programmes and to show the three-quarters contributed by the other three in its own region . |
| 5 | Students will be asked to reflect on the investigations and to identify the learning gained in relation to personal and social development . |
| 6 | An increasing proportion of the latter occupations seek to live beyond the cities and to commute back to them . |
| 7 | Women began to leave the cities and to establish women 's houses in the countryside and in Scotland and Wales . |
| 8 | The first stage of the war , to 1343 , had produced more problems and doubts than profits and successes ; the second stage , from 1343 to 1356 , was punctuated by glittering triumphs and extensive conquests , both of which helped to redeem some of the debts and to quell some of the doubts . |
| 9 | Soane concludes , ‘ I have been more anxious to produce utility in the plans than to display expensive architecture in the elevations ; the leading objects were to unite convenience and comfort in the interior distributions , and simplicity and uniformity in the exterior. , |
| 10 | Boves 's mestizos aimed to exterminate the creoles and to destroy their property . |
| 11 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 12 | Another speaker , Michael Traber , WACC 's Director of Studies and Publications , said : ‘ It is the task of the mass media and theology to read the signs of the times and to interpret the changes that occur in the world in order to make sense of them . ’ |
| 13 | Parents can not always be on the spot to point out the sensible course of action , to remind children about the rules or to enforce them . |
| 14 | ‘ I try my best to abide by the rules and to win the races , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The traveller was then grilled by the corrupt Indian border officials : ‘ Their custom was to take a quarter of everything brought in by the merchants and to exact a duty of seven dinars for every horse . ’ |
| 16 | I think there 's a desperate need for people to actually be prepared to learn the skills and to do the very , very difficult work of doing that . |
| 17 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 18 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 19 | Safe road surfaces , adequate street lighting and sign posting , compulsory driving tests , road use regulations , compulsory speed limits and minimum mechanical safety standards for vehicles are all examples of measures taken by national governments to maintain a safe environment on the roads and to prevent accidents . |
| 20 | There are tennis courts at many of our hotels and within the resorts and to help you make your holiday choice we provide this brief guide . |
| 21 | Ferdinand , desperate to be accepted by the cognoscenti and to build up political influence , flaunted his lavishness by building a gigantic French château of bright yellow Bath stone With 222 rooms , and by planting hundreds of fully grown trees on the high bare hill on which it stood . |
| 22 | Charles Darwin 's work forced his generation and the generations since to restructure the conventional ways in which they thought about humanity 's role in the world . |
| 23 | They have a Secretary , whose role is to record the proceedings and the decisions of the meetings and to publish the minutes of the meetings and the agenda with any supporting papers . |
| 24 | The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again . |
| 25 | Congress is not empowered to make laws for the states or to substitute them for the laws of individual states and so on . |
| 26 | It also gives us the chance to talk to the clients and to get to know exactly what they want . ’ |
| 27 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 28 | In setting up women 's refuges and rape crisis centres it does not seek revenge , it seeks to take care of the survivors and to change the policies of state agencies . |
| 29 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 30 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |