Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [art] [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 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Modern scholarship has tended to try and distinguish the different meanings and uses of the words ‘ Devil ’ and ‘ demons ’ . |
| 10 | But the double oxymoron in line 13 suggests that they are already foes , that the poem has either been written to try and restore a lost harmony , or to draw attention to the fact that it can not be restored . |
| 11 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 14 | Well I think probably it was such a bad place , putting , come to try and show a little light , proper way to live and |
| 15 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 16 | It is much simpler , cheaper and healthier to try and eat a high-fibre diet in the first place . |
| 17 | Now the doctor has to try and locate a suitable place to inject the blood . |
| 18 | Since then yet another Potato Marketing Board buying programme has begun , at £10 a tonne , simply to try and clear a major surplus of potatoes off the market . |
| 19 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On chemical weapons , all the principal elements were agreed , the basic position being that sufficient of each country 's stock would be destroyed to leave 5,000 tonnes , production of new weapons would cease and they would join forces to try and secure a global ban on such weapons . |
| 24 | Once again the trade unions working individually and through the trade unions for Labour pulled out all the stops to try and secure a Labour victory . |
| 25 | He says that he wo n't massage er the economic figures to try and create a pre-election boomlet , but then , he said that he would n't go into the E R M until inflation was falling and indeed was very near the level of our competitors , so I do n't think you can believe a word he says . |
| 26 | Before considering them , however , it is convenient to try and identify the equitable principles that the earlier cases had established . |
| 27 | We will be putting officers in there , extra officers , to try and stop the stolen cars and the joy riding . |
| 28 | Er and we want to try and explain a little bit about tt how far we got in terms of achieving certification to I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Group met three times during the year to try and ensure a balanced representation on the sixty or so committees . |