Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropologists in various parts of the world have found groups of men who have gone to remarkable lengths to modify and improve the sexual equipment with which nature endowed them . |
| 2 | If we are prone to hyperventilating during panic attacks , and otherwise at times of increased anxiety , we must learn techniques which help us to breathe more slowly and deeply , from the stomach rather than the chest , and we may also need to rebreathe our own air , breathing into and out of a paper bag , or cupping our hands close to our mouth to catch and rebreathe the exhaled air . |
| 3 | The EC Communications and Telecommunications Ministers agreed on Dec. 8 , 1989 , on a programme to deregulate and liberalize the remaining areas of the EC market in telecommunications which had not been covered by earlier agreements ( see p. 36494 ) , voting to deregulate value-added telephone services by April 1 , 1990 ( with transitional concessions to Spain , Portugal and Greece ) , and to extend the ruling to packet-switching and circuit-switching services by the start of 1993 . |
| 4 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 5 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 6 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 7 | Real maids are quite different , moaning and wailing and kissing the local bobby between the dustbin and the outhouse . |
| 8 | Mac-to-PowerPC software start-up , Echo Logic ( UX No 385 ) , fresh from its triumphant debut , figures it has proved the feasibility of its concept and is now starting afresh to try and make the binary compiler technology , FlashPort , easy to use . |
| 9 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |
| 10 | Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly . |
| 11 | ‘ We believe we have done everything reasonable to try and collect the outstanding cash , ’ said Rosie McLeod , principal officer in the borough treasurer 's department . |
| 12 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 13 | Modern scholarship has tended to try and distinguish the different meanings and uses of the words ‘ Devil ’ and ‘ demons ’ . |
| 14 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 15 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 16 | I will also introduce a few grains of hemp into the swim along with the maggots to try and bring the bigger dish onto the feed . |
| 17 | ‘ The more expertise you have available the better , and I 'm just going to try and do the best job I can . |
| 18 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 19 | To make matters worse the scheme included an irrigation scheme on common land used by the women and with the help of the government , the men gained exclusive use of these lands , pushing women onto inferior , poorer quality land where they had to continue to try and grow the traditional rice . |
| 20 | To cure spin out the aim is to try and spread the sideways force of the sail along the rails of the board , rather than it being concentrated on the straining skeg . |
| 21 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 22 | Before considering them , however , it is convenient to try and identify the equitable principles that the earlier cases had established . |
| 23 | So you have to try and identify the next players and the best way of integrating that new group . |
| 24 | We will be putting officers in there , extra officers , to try and stop the stolen cars and the joy riding . |
| 25 | Casting a critical eye over the mock-up , Adml Eaton said : ‘ We are always wishing to get fewer people in ships and so one of ways is to try and improve the human interface with the machinery . |
| 26 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
| 27 | And , while Emma and Sophie were still happy here in London , she had no alternative but to try and endure the venomous pin-pricks of her elderly mother-in-law . |
| 28 | An alternative is to try and utilise the participating adults as observers who might subsequently be able to provide sufficient contextual detail to support interpretations of the transcribed speech . |
| 29 | Quickly Harvey ran round the front of the car to try and open the other door . |
| 30 | Apart from the CDs I have already reviewed , I have been playing through others in the series to get things into perspective and to try and plot the diverse range of Liszt 's output which has so far been performed and recorded with such remarkable consistency . |