Example sentences of "of [noun] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are able to become objective observers of the patterns of play and to take pleasure in their endless variations on central themes . |
| 2 | Know-how is all important — and it is quite typical for a deputy head following an advanced part-time degree in education management to sigh with relief at the start of a module about , for instance , the management of assessment and to say that this was precisely what his head — with an eye mainly on the short term — hoped he would get out of the course . |
| 3 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 4 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 5 | There an attempt was to be made to reach agreement on the date of Easter and to end the discord between Egypt and Rome on the one hand and Syria and Asia Minor on the other . |
| 6 | As a PLC we would have the greater freedom and flexibility vitally needed to match the increasing pace of change and to provide new or different services — and we can not afford to be too slow or too late . |
| 7 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 8 | The group , along with the NIH chapter of Blacks in Government ( BIG ) , wants the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help solve the break-in and wants NIH to act promptly to resolve the complaints of discrimination and to punish those responsible . |
| 9 | This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine . |
| 10 | Further west the US XVIII Corps — composed around a nucleus of US airborne troops — together with the highly mobile French forces , thrust deep into Iraq from Rafha , with the objective of reaching the Euphrates at Nasiriyah in order to seal the Kuwaiti theatre of operations and to prevent Iraqi forces from escaping to the north . |
| 11 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |
| 12 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 13 | Having criticized the limits of the antiracist account of racism , this is an appropriate point at which to explicate my own conception of racism and to indicate why I think it is more persuasive ( cf. |
| 14 | ‘ As a result of very careful housekeeping , we have been able to deal with our list of creditors and to bring the cash problem under firm control . |
| 15 | As an analytical philosopher Honderich is keen to explore the logic of Conservatism and to demonstrate that it has none , but at the same time he engages with the history of Conservative ideas . |
| 16 | Adenauer in 1955 proceeded to set up a Ministry of Defence and to create a new Bundeswehr , whose first members joined up in November . |
| 17 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0·2 of being achieved . |
| 18 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0.2 of being achieved . |
| 19 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 20 | Because towns and cities had grown too rapidly in the 1930s , it was decided to restrict the growth of cities and to disperse populations into new towns . |
| 21 | The agrarian reform had done much to improve the efficiency of agriculture and to ameliorate living standards among the peasantry . |
| 22 | During the first year of life children seem to become aware of objects and to realise that objects behave in quite different ways to themselves and to other people . |
| 23 | The functionalist style in public law exhibits tendencies to examine critically the reasoning processes of courts and to expose the value assumptions on which they rest . |
| 24 | Scheduling is designed to protect a monument from any kind of damage and to control any necessary works to it . |
| 25 | Could we not call it sort of discussions and to try and put our point of view , our , our difficulties that we 're in , rather than erm , er , er , the narrower thing ? |
| 26 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 27 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 28 | Changes in the structure of the work-force ( greater concentration into single industries and decline of artisanal activity , especially after the First World War ) also tended to reduce the relevance of anarchism and to leave a vacuum for Marxist ideas . |
| 29 | This forms an effective revision medium , enabling the teacher to identify areas of difficulty and to quantify the assimilation of information in the pupil 's own knowledge structures . |
| 30 | Other members of staff could also refer to the record to ensure the relevance of teaching and to avoid duplication . |