Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First check all the electrical system , fuses , circuit breakers , microphone and headset connected . |
| 2 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 3 | He relished the thought of fighting and slaughter less than Lachlan did . |
| 4 | How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues . |
| 5 | What he can not do , of course , is articulate clearly his true reasons of state , reasons which make perfect sense in an administration context and obey all the rules of realpolitik , including the rule that you should have God on your side . |
| 6 | They have inertia , mass and momentum and obey centrifugal force . |
| 7 | Although the conserved immunoglobulin β- bulge sequence motifs are absent , a corresponding pair of β- bulges occurs in CD2 but these features are now positioned immediately after the CC' and FG β- turns ( at Leu 38 and Arg 87 respectively ) . |
| 8 | While Man has stopped developing , animals seem to learn , adapt and change all the time . |
| 9 | They switch and change all the time , phu ! like this . |
| 10 | Come on in and and change all your clothes . |
| 11 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
| 12 | And there will be specific discussions in later chapters concerning the different kinds of change that teachers are commonly involved with : change in classroom practice , change in school policy and change that is being imposed from outside the school . |
| 13 | Wednesday 's a rather muddled time when people and events force you to rethink certain situations and change one or two recent decisions . |
| 14 | It 's like I said you you can lift up the cover and change four while one 's playing . |
| 15 | If he had a good fairy on hand he would ask her to wave her wand and change British spending habits . |
| 16 | One MEP has calculated that if you start with £100 in Britain and change this sum successively into each of the Community s eleven currencies , you would only have £50 by the final transaction . |
| 17 | Romaine 's extension of the quantitative methods of sociolinguistics to the study of variation in relative clause marking in sixteenth-century written texts suggests an approach to the relationship between variation and change different from any we have discussed so far ( Romaine 1982b ) . |
| 18 | A vital clue in this respect was the attitude of the Bohemians and those other refugees from the middle-class world who had found music-hall and vaudeville such an exciting diversion . |
| 19 | Some species are very tiny , and encrust other shells . |
| 20 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 21 | Click and drag all your graphics program files into the new box . |
| 22 | by accident and drag that home |
| 23 | Our aim is to be a leading supplier in the plastic packaging markets in which we choose to operate , and develop sustainable competitive advantages in those markets . |
| 24 | ‘ Participate in and develop cooperative training schemes with neighbouring Authorities and with library schools ’ . |
| 25 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 26 | We will press ahead with regular appraisal of teachers to encourage high standards and develop professional skills . |
| 27 | In the established professions , there are clear structures to support , maintain and develop professional practice . |
| 28 | These modules will provide the opportunity for students to specialise in the Sciences and develop vocational competences including Lead Body Standards where these are available . |
| 29 | They explore one side of their personality and develop one aspect of their skills with a single-mindedness which has obvious disadvantages . |
| 30 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |