Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 • Z55 tensile quality steel combined with a 47mm deep ribbed profile configuration gives excellent spanning characteristics and minimises ponding even at pitches as low as 1½£°
2 In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price .
3 and creaked to cover .
4 Touching and smelling play an important part in reinforcing natural bonds , as well as identification .
5 The central requirement can not be escaped : almost every action that would remedy and reassure involves the relationship between the citizen and the state .
6 Then , having lost Mushtaq , he threw caution completely to the wind and spooned to cover .
7 The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes .
8 Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities .
9 The HLCA system should be reviewed with MAFF and WOAD re-assessing stocking levels in Section 43 areas in consultation with NPAS ( and Local Authorities outside ) to ‘ achieve environmental and agricultural objectives ’ .
10 LEFT It is better to transport dogs individually , and partitioned travelling cages can be acquired for this purpose .
11 The nightmares and perception of strange smells that we shall see in our more modern writers were as prevalent in mediaeval times : ‘ He dremyth dredful dremes of derknesse and ferdfull to se , and of stynkynge sauoure and smelle . ’
12 Look out for products such as Visio , a drop and drag drawing package which utilises job-specific stencils ; WinDesk , a customisable desktop for Windows ; ProtoView , a screen management facility for Windows ; Star Trek the Screensaver , a screensaver program for Star Trek fanatics ; Office Accelerator , a program to run your office from within your favourite word-processor ; Color Tools , a multimedia graphics solution ; Labtech Vision , a program that produces dynamic graphics that automatically update in real time , and CameraMan , which records and plays back Windows routines .
13 The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’
14 The hardships that they faced and shared brought both family stresses and personal dilemmas , but their activities undoubtedly prolonged the strike in many places .
15 We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt .
16 A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose .
17 Attainment target 3 : A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose .
18 A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose .
19 • writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation .
20 writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation .
21 There should be no doubt that , for all foreseeable business purposes , candidates can perceive and convey meaning in its written English forms , both quickly and accurately .
22 This produces early colours that go well with the wax-polished timbers , and accumulates to give the finish a smoothness and richness of texture impossible with more modern paints .
23 Holly finding that his packet had not been taken , retrieving it , hurrying away , and frightened to look over his shoulder and check whether he was under surveillance .
24 The boy was too shocked and frightened to speak .
25 He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife .
26 We travelled first by boat , and planned to spend the night at a hotel on the other side of the lake .
27 State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands .
28 She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model .
29 Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ .
30 She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son .
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