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

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1 The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode .
2 Draw a sketch of each and answer the following .
3 Intelligenty monopolized the Central Committee of each and provided the leading figures on the national stage in 1917 .
4 Ben Sira praised the fathers of old and described the High Priest Simon son of Jochanan in his majestic appearance when he went up to the altar ( 50.11 ) .
5 Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well .
6 Either Choose one of these and tell the whole story of what happened — as if you were one of the people in the story .
7 Now , if you look at all of these and find the longest chain we you can actually get in that respect is a six chain , is n't it ?
8 He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers .
9 For a start , there is the problem of determining and monitoring the environmental safety of these chemicals .
10 One of the aims of the RJWG , unrealized until the 1990 legislation , was to unite Jugendpflege and Jugendfürsorge ( youth welfare ) , not by way of creating centralized state provisions , but by giving local youth offices the task of stimulating and supporting the co-ordinated growth of both strands .
11 The parliamentary façade of Bismarck 's Prussia , the french democracy which had crushed the Revolution of 1848 and did the same to the Paris Commune in 1871 , and even Britain 's constitutional monarchy seemed merely to disguise flagrant injustice .
12 This is to be completed during the summer of 1987 and has the provisional title , The Language of Educational Research — its Practices and Philosophy .
13 ‘ Divide into groups of four and make the best paper aeroplane ’ .
14 Fourthly , the problem is not just a mechanical one of co-ordinating and controlling the extra flows of information required when jobs are fragmented .
15 At its core was very bad news : it remains true that the Tobacco Institute of Australia was guilty in 1986 of misleading and deceiving the Australian public about the existence of evidence which might ( according to many ) be reasonably said to prove that passive smoking was harmful .
16 He shifted his energies to pressure-group politics , playing a leading role in orchestrating the No Popery crusade of 1834–6 and organizing the Protestant Association as a focus for the anti-Catholic campaign .
17 Multipartite viruses , such as Tequila and Telefonica , are a combination of both and get the best of both worlds , making them particularly infectious .
18 Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane .
19 Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane .
20 Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts .
21 ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special .
22 One of these days I 'll go out like this and scare the whole population , 'cos they 'll think I 'm in me bare pelt . ’
23 His face was full technicolour with red and black the predominant hues , with stitches over one eye and underneath the other .
24 But that does n't mean we ca n't be true Christians in private and keep the Old Faith alive for the day when the Protestants see the error of their ways . "
25 The Belfast helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943 and led the naval bombardment in support of the Normandy D Day landing at Juno Beach .
26 Although the Law Society took the steps to establish a Professional and Public Relations Committee in 1971 and employed the public relations firm , Saatchi and Saatchi , to improve its tarnished image , it did not seek to present the profession on any sort of economic/productivity basis .
27 Sandford pool was opened in 1935 and cost the then large sum of £16,000 .
28 Lamont now proposed a " substantial switch " from local to central taxation , amounting to about £4,250 million in 1991-92 and reducing the net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million .
29 If the first punch is effectively blocked , then the attacker moves in nearer and unleashes the other fist .
30 When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Shrewsbury , whilst defending the restoration in public and denouncing the Catholic peers who distanced themselves from it , felt that the triumphalist attitude of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman [ q.v. ]
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