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

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1 Leaving aside the imagery , he maintained : ‘ We have set our objectives for this season 's championship as two wins out of four and that remains the realistic target .
2 If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma .
3 Too much emphasis was placed on the necessary function of actually producing an annual programme to which different parties can agree and that identifies the full list of projects seeking funding .
4 Riders rarely brake with more than two fingers ( often with only one ) and that allows the other fingers to concentrate on holding on .
5 We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR .
6 Pound replied that Aristophanes might be depressing , and that to raise the heavy phallus to its desired height Dixie folk melodies might be more effective .
7 In Latvia , thoughts are turning to bringing the former Soviet satellite state back into the ‘ light ’ and that means the suppressed aviators are beginning to stir .
8 The union , and that means the general committee elected by the club as well as the professional staff appointed by the committee , are working for the benefit of everyone involved in the game in Wales .
9 ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’
10 From mid-June to mid-September this blast lasts for two to six hours , blowing force 4 to force 7 for over 60% of the afternoons and that includes the odd period when it 's flat for 4 to 6 days .
11 Everyone in the family should be involved in reaching a decision about.the care of an elderly relative , and that includes the elderly person concerned .
12 And that includes the major issues of change and development within the labour movement itself ; the most serious indictment of all involved in trade union education in the past fifteen years is their failure to inspire a regeneration of the ideology of labour as a collective movement for democratic advance combined with the widespread dissemination of a modern organisational competence .
13 You could say , in a letter , that you strongly support the creation of a route for walkers and cyclists from Bloomiehall Park to Muirwood Road , especially for use by children to get to school , and that to overcome the present impasse , it might be a good idea to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land needed .
14 And that leads the main question of this issue : would the girls have been as evil at the end ?
15 Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes .
16 He does n't realise that Gorbachev does n't feel that way any more , and neither does the vast majority of Spaniards . ’
17 An unsuccessful search terminates when the end points of the section of the list being searched are in fact next to each other , and neither matches the searched-for item .
18 The acts of 1866 and 1869 extended the geographical locations covered by the regulations , while the Admiralty and the War Office were now mandated to provide hospital facilities for inspection and treatment .
19 Table 2.7 of the Employment Gazettes of 1981 and 1986 give the following figures for unemployment ( thousands ) in the UK in April of 1979 and 1986 : Draw age-sex profiles for the two years .
20 This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) .
21 The enclosures have been carefully sited and designed , and each supplies the essential features to answer the needs of particular types of animals .
22 Eventually they identified a shortlist of about twenty areas where the rock formations were considered suitably stable and dry to keep the nuclear waste containers intact over the long timescales envisaged .
23 And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church .
24 Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales .
25 From 1917 onwards , many referred to the need for proportional representation and some charged the Labour Party with fomenting class warfare through its parliamentary and municipal campaigns .
26 Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark .
27 Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts .
28 And this defines the theoretical equilibrium conditions .
29 You will notice that this inference contains the built-in assumption that whatever went on on Earth is likely to have gone on elsewhere in the universe , and this begs the whole question .
30 However , capitalism forced upon people the collision of classes and this prevented the full development of national culture ; socialism would allow the full development of a ‘ community of education , work and culture ’ , rising above narrow local loyalties .
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