Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 2 | Following the US invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 , 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , US troops surrounded and entered the residence of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Panama City on Dec. 29 . |
| 3 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 4 | Dust-wreathed propellers turn overhead , twisting and turning the grime of centuries into the crannies of the moulded ceiling . |
| 5 | The government disclosed and repudiated a project of the previous military regime to build a nuclear bomb and signed with Argentina a treaty of nuclear non-proliferation [ see p. 37914 ] . |
| 6 | Chen said in a message to employees that the Eau Claire , Wisconsin company had designed and tested a prototype of what would be the world 's fastest supercomputer , and industry executives familiar with the project separately told Reuter that the prototype appeared to be a viable machine with a solid architecture . |
| 7 | The actual technique is to jet a small area and as spray or steam obscures the action to stop jetting and assess the effect before continuing . |
| 8 | It was six years ago she was approached and offered a job as casting director for a planned new soap opera … |
| 9 | My next visit was in 1987 when , armed with the necessary maps and a compass , I started to try and untangle the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 10 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 11 | The 43-year-old Irishman is having to battle through the qualifying rounds in Blackpool to try and clinch a place in next April 's finals of the £1 million Embassy world championship in Sheffield . |
| 12 | The Israeli political system remained in a state of deadlock throughout April following the collapse of the Likud-Labour coalition in mid-March [ see pp. 37303-04 ] , when the Labour leader Shimon Peres had been invited to try and achieve a majority in the 120-member , evenly balanced Knesset ( parliament ) . |
| 13 | He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training . |
| 14 | I reckon he will play wide on the right to try and restrict the space of the nippy Dutch winger . |
| 15 | The basic idea is to try and form the nucleus of England 's test team , and with the players in their teenage years . |
| 16 | Hot tears made her eyes smart , infuriating her still further , and she took a moment or two to try and control a surge of pure emotional misery . |
| 17 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 18 | Should be all right Tracey from Radford 's going to try and knock the smile off you face are n't you Tracey ? |
| 19 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |
| 20 | The Doctor , Ian , Susan and Carol travel down to the Sense-Sphere capital , with John , whom the Sensorites have offered to cure , to meet the rulers and to try and negotiate a settlement of their differences . |
| 21 | Remember to try and feel a sense of beauty and slimness flow over you as you perform them . |
| 22 | Remember to try and feel a sense of grace and well being flow over you as you perform them . |
| 23 | Remember to try and feel a sense of poise , elegance and harmony flow over you as you perform them . |
| 24 | To try and counteract the influence of the extremists , the moderate wing of the party launched a Labour Solidarity Campaign in 1981 . |
| 25 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 26 | I had my daughter treated under an assumed name until she was five , to try and prevent the press from finding out things about her , and they have the secret name that I used for here in here . |
| 27 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 28 | Maybe you want to be cautious , knowing that to try and do a work of God by the flesh is to court disaster and possibly a nervous breakdown for good measure . |
| 29 | It also pays to try and match the pattern of the border at the joint . |
| 30 | He had been moved alongside the combative Hughes in the second half , to try and expose a lack of pace at the heart of Southampton 's aggressive and rough defence . |