Example sentences of "[verb] and [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Real opportunities have been missed by rejecting our suggestion that a supervisory statutory committee should be formed , rejecting the idea of choice to opt into these ’ services ’ , rejecting the proposal that the worst of these ’ services ’ should be removed and by rejecting the simple principle of direct billing .
2 Opportunity will come and in teaching the youngest of us to prepare for it we will all of us be fitter to take it should it come our way . ’
3 Until then , having to provide a system of education which is nominally continuous but in terms of reality , disconnected and without knowing the full extent of its effects , is likely to lead to misunderstanding and tension .
4 They have the problem of learning the basic skills of teaching , of keeping order , of creating varied and interesting lessons , of the kind of language that is suitable to different ages and levels of achievement , of pacing and of developing the vital intuitive sense of how much you can get done in forty or seventy minutes .
5 The poll tax , he said , is central to change and to improving the inner cities .
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