Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 2 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 3 | Miss Hepburn , 63 , who underwent surgery on Sunday , was listed in fair condition and expected to leave hospital within a week . |
| 4 | THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product . |
| 5 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
| 6 | Worse still , Moscow appeared willing to exploit to the full the unstable post-war conditions , probing western defences in Germany and the Middle East , blessing the Chinese revolution ( 1949 ) , supporting the invasion of South Korea by the communist North ( 1950 ) , and seeking through force , demagogy and sabotage to spread Communism across the undeveloped world . |
| 7 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 8 | As this severely restricted the scope of what the agencies had been directed to search for , Shaughnessy felt confirmed in his suspicions that the government had something to hide and sought to obtain depositions from the officials who had signed the declarations . |
| 9 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
| 10 | It was only at this point that CNN complied with the restraining order and ceased broadcasting excerpts from the tapes pending an appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 11 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 12 | In April 1865 , after months of hesitation , Agnes Jones decided that God had called her to Liverpool and agreed to become matron of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary at Brownlow Hill . |
| 13 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 14 | Signatories of the nuclear Partial Test Ban Treaty ( PTBT ) signed in August 1963 [ see pp. 19553-60 ] , met in New York on Jan. 7-18 and agreed to achieve progress towards a comprehensive test ban . |
| 15 | It 's important to have enough space and a well-thought out arrangement that allows both eating and cooking to take place without the one interfering with the other . |
| 16 | The best and most thought-provoking images will be published and sold to raise funds for the RSPB campaign for the countryside , to be launched in September . |
| 17 | It was held that they could be convicted a second time and made to pay compensation to a second victim who had read a copy of the same brochure . |
| 18 | Generally , toys made and given to raise funds at a local fête or bazaar would not be considered as being a ‘ business ’ , unless , like Mrs Rees of Moor Farm , Walwyns Castle , you live in the vicinity of Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire . |
| 19 | This preference is shown up in growing governmental preference for the many variants of NFI , in which a local enterprise associates with a foreign partner ( or sometimes with two as in Brazil where Tintas Renas teamed up with both ICI and Dupont to produce paint for the local market ) . |
| 20 | Its biggest benefactor is the property developer Godfrey Bradman , who is believed to have donated £250,000 to the last campaign , and has pledged £65,000 to the embryo Bill campaign . |
| 21 | Palo Alto , California-based Aion Corp is diversifying from its IBM Corp MVS roots and has announced availability of the Aion Development System , a knowledge-based system designed specifically to automate business processes such as scheduling , configuration , monitoring , diagnostic , decision support and service , for Sun Microsystems Inc 's Unix systems . |
| 22 | The siege , which ended with Keith Pringle being shot in the neck by a police marksman , was the latest incident involving firearms and has renewed calls for a clampdown on Britain 's gun laws . |
| 23 | This is a heady wine and has intoxicated palaeontologists since the days when they could blame it all on Noah 's flood . |
| 24 | The group has recently been supported by the ESRC and has run meetings on the Northern Sea Route ( NSR ) and Russian-Norwegian offshore disputes . |
| 25 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 26 | He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment , and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre . |
| 27 | To get around this , Locus has written extra kernel-level facilities , including a remote execution function call which will communicate with different RPCs , and has made modifications to the file system — allowing current applications to migrate across to DCE and ONC without re-coding . |
| 28 | Peking has so far agreed to only a quarter of legislators being directly elected by 1997 , and has condemned supporters of a full democracy . |
| 29 | Previously , Gaynor worked as a Jacquard Designer in the Whitehaven studio and has gained experience with an International design consultant . |
| 30 | He is also chairman of the polytechnic board of governors and has given £100,000 to the new science school to help develop the study of chemical and biotechnological sciences . |