Example sentences of "and [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures for some " democratisation " of foreign policy and for weakening the dangerous grip on international relations of allegedly cynical and reactionary foreign offices were not confined to Britain . |
| 2 | We are grateful to our union for making this possible , and for sponsoring the retired members in this way ever since . |
| 3 | Tough love should be kind , gentle and understanding to both the family member and the primary sufferer , while nonetheless allowing each to be fully responsible for his or her own feelings and behaviour and for taking the full consequences of all choices of individual action . |
| 4 | Worthy of review for being by something called the Disco Universe Orchestra ( I want to join ) and for bearing the wise slogan LOUD AND WOBBLY MUSIC FOR THE '90Ss . |
| 5 | It should be noted , therefore , that the success fee is intended to compensate the Network member submitting the suggestion for identifying an original and successful prospective purchaser name and for handling the initial contact with the suggested prospective purchaser . |
| 6 | They failed to see that money came from success , not the other way round — Chelsea , for instance , had also paid large sums for players without creating a championship team — and that the vital factor was the genius of the manager in charge for getting the most out of his players , whatever they cost , and for buying the right man . |
| 7 | In addition , it is responsible for formulating the policy for dealing with the various kinds of applications ( subject to the directions of the Bar Council and the Inns ' Council ) and for revising the Consolidated Regulations as and when necessary . |
| 8 | To Mitchell belongs much of the credit for the creation of the railway system in the Highlands and for overcoming the formidable engineering problems of mountainous terrain , fast-flowing rivers , and treacherous peatbogs . |
| 9 | Fair play to Ian Broudie for putting his trademark sparkle on the music and for letting the loony parts lie , the way that ‘ Monster Mouth ’ is Jim Bob after getting his throat sorted by Tona De Brett , and how the chorus of ‘ Too Jung ’ is a saucy steal from The Smiths ' ‘ London ’ . |
| 10 | He claimed that there is a new surge of enthusiasm in the Serbian Party for crushing the ‘ counter-revolution ’ in Kosovo ( which he also described as ‘ genocide ’ ) , and for solving the economic crisis . |
| 11 | 1774 " To William Mitchel 's Charge for ffree Stone to the Church yeard Dyke at Killarow £1:5 : and for Caping the said Dyke £ |
| 12 | 1774 " To William Mitchel 's Charge for ffree Stone to the Church yeard Dyke at Killarow £1:5 : and for Caping the said Dyke £1 ; 1 : " |
| 13 | And after leaving the main bedroom did you learn that the rest of the flat was secured ? |
| 14 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 15 | Backed by Albanian regiments he manoeuvred skilfully in the struggles between Turks and mamluks and after imprisoning the Turkish governor in 1805 , persuaded Istanbul to recognise him as Egypt 's sultan . |
| 16 | Thus , for example , Article 99 of the EEC Treaty provides that provisions for the harmonization of tax legislation , such as the Sixth VAT Directive , are to be adopted by the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 18 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 19 | RIGHT The use of Electronic Distance Measurement ( EDM ) is a very accurate method of undertaking surveys and of establishing the precise location of finds on an excavation . |
| 20 | It has the advantages of being very precise and of reflecting the social reality of the operation of the administration of law and order . |
| 21 | In other Cabinet changes the former Interior Minister Chedi Neffati took over the Justice portfolio from Mustapha Bouaziz , who became Minister of State Domains , a new ministry with the responsibility of overseeing public properties and of monitoring the public sector . |
| 22 | The widely respected dissident Doina Cornea , who resigned from the Front in January [ see p. 37190 ] , accused its leaders of insincerity and of lacking the moral authority to regenerate the country . |
| 23 | If they respectfully withdraw from involvement in village affairs they find themselves branded as ‘ stand-offish ’ or ‘ jumped-up ’ ; if they participate fully in the life of the village they are accused of ‘ taking over ’ and of telling the local inhabitants how to run their own community . |
| 24 | For the analyst , as well as the hearer , conversational implicatures must be treated as inherently indeterminate since they derive from a supposition that the speaker has the intention of conveying meaning and of obeying the Cooperative Principle . |
| 25 | However , the costs of building and of providing the necessary infrastructure together with planning restrictions meant that it was less than ideal . |
| 26 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |
| 27 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 28 | ‘ Others have made the mistake of asking for respect for their traditions and languages and of claiming the human rights that are due to them — including the right of access to the mass media ’ . |
| 29 | I argued the advantages of establishing a Unit based on the principle of the fullest exploitation of surprise and of making the minimum demands on man-power and equipment . |
| 30 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |