Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advisers and inspectors can be a stimulus to more rigorous thinking and have an important role to play in encouraging schools to be more self-critical . |
| 2 | Porsche engineers have overthrown conventional thinking and built an all-wheel drive car to shake the world : the 911 Carrera 4 . |
| 3 | The firm now employs 30 people , exports about 20 per cent of its pro-duct and has an annual turnover of £10m. in various currencies . |
| 4 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership and providing an Industry-based resource for the curriculum . |
| 5 | The result , analysts say , will be a slowing of credit for Japanese companies that could prevent capital investment and block an economic recovery . |
| 6 | Keith Clash , 27 , was jailed for over two months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday after admitting theft and carrying an offensive weapon . |
| 7 | Turbulent Italian passions leave the sedate Edwardians at a loss and create an oppressive sense of melodrama . |
| 8 | Step aboard our steam train , settle in your seat and enjoy an everchanging landscape on the eighteen miles from Grosmont to Pickering . |
| 9 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 10 | At a rally of 60,000 supporters at the Afrikaner Voortrekker Monument near Pretoria on May 26 , Andries Treurnicht , leader of the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official parliamentary opposition , outlined his party 's strategy for reversing the government 's reform programme and achieving an Afrikaner homeland . |
| 11 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 12 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 13 | Not content with putting his case , he is threatening to use NCR 's poison pill to increase drastically the cost of the bid and to invoke an anti-takeover law in Maryland , where the firm is incorporated , that would freeze any bid for five years . |
| 14 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |
| 15 | He got into the habit of coming down into our cell and asking an endless string of questions on vocabulary , which he normally directed at Terry . |
| 16 | Mandru leaned back on his couch and made an expansive gesture to include his vibrancers . |
| 17 | The idea of doing research and pursuing an academic career was common ground to both of them ; indeed they had never considered any alternative . |
| 18 | A group of 17 international Prolog suppliers , including IBM , Siemens Nixdorf and Quintus , have formed a strategic collaborative alliance called the Prolog Vendors Group ( PVG ) to demonstrate that the language has grown beyond the domain of AI research and become an effective tool in commercial and industrial applications . |
| 19 | The major duties of the professor will be to pursue his or her own research and to sustain an active research group , whilst acting as a focus for the extensive activity in Theoretical Chemistry that already exists in the Oxford Chemistry School . |
| 20 | Because of the outbreak of war he abandoned plans to do research and took an industrial job , but in September 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private soldier and served with the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 21 | We are foremost in research and have an acclaimed information service . |
| 22 | We are foremost in research and have an acclaimed information service . |
| 23 | Thresher 's Operations Director for Wine Retailing , is a shining example of the value Whitbread places on its existing employees who show ambition and take an active role in furthering their careers . |
| 24 | I find a glass or two of wine aids the digestion and makes an excellent nightcap . |
| 25 | He was looking for something which immobilised the car and gave an audible warning if it was broken into . ’ |
| 26 | This year 's offering is called PageMaker college and comprises an extended version of the video , a 10-site-licensed copy of PageMaker ( doctored , of course ) , all the training materials , workbooks etc for just £175 . |
| 27 | A co-founder of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) in 1960 , and three times mayor of the capital San Salvador between 1964 and 1970 , Duarte campaigned for democratic reforms as candidate of the National Opposition Union in the February 1972 presidential elections , but was defeated amid allegations of massive electoral fraud and launched an abortive coup in March . |
| 28 | Nip and get an ordinary jelly . |
| 29 | If you 're desperate for storage space it 's often possible to build units right around a window so that the window acquires a recessed effect and becomes an essential part of the arrangement . |
| 30 | Cloches are widely used to protect strawberries in spring and to produce an early crop . |