Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This situation has accelerated the user experience of expert systems , and has given rise to the increasingly sophisticated applications in which expert systems can have combinations of simulation facilities , database links , graphic interfaces and speech recognition facilities . |
| 11 | This artist differs from the others reviewed here in that she has not used a gendered figure in her drawings and has given form to the contradictions of intuitive emotion and insight in non-figurative sculpture . |
| 12 | Given the commonality of objectives with EFAH and encouraged by the Commission , HCIMA has accepted a place on the Board of Governors of the Foundation and has begun work on the development of a pan-European accreditation system . |
| 13 | Later research suggests , however , that they were more common in the North-west than had been supposed and probably began in the South-east in the late sixteenth century , and has cast doubt on the validity of seeking to impose too rigid a geographical pattern on food rioting from the recorded incidence . |
| 14 | Pask had never met Dr Howe before he killed her and has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility . |
| 15 | Dalglish is enjoying a golfing break in Spain and has left deal in the hands of assistant Ray Harford . |
| 16 | By contrast , the radical position has interpreted control as suppression , and has focussed attention on the ways in which lawyers appropriate the right to know what their clients need . |
| 17 | In addition , the Department of Health undertakes , or commissions , evaluations of health technologies at the national level ( Buxton et al , 1985 ) and has issued guidance on the economic evaluation of medical equipment ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Under the European Community Wild Birds Directive SPA designation requires the Government to guarantee the area 's future protection and to try to prevent damage to the habitats within it . |
| 19 | If the Socialists are tactful and want to win favour with the centre-right , there will be no clean-out in June . |
| 20 | Eighteen Nottinghamshire practices were randomly selected from the family practitioner committee ( now family health services authority ) list and invited to take part in the study . |
| 21 | He raps down his prospective lines using webbing and rope made from non-renewable resources and starts stripping vegetation from the cracks and ledges on the route . |
| 22 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 23 | ‘ You said it was hardly in accord with your rank and honour to make use of the oath of fealty to lure a man treacherously to his death . |
| 24 | Conker hurried to begin with , gregarious as usual , then he slowed and tried to snatch grass from the hedgerows , the long stalks of cow parsley dangling from his mouth . |
| 25 | ‘ Your partner probably recognised you as the innocent you are — and tried to take advantage of the fact . |
| 26 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 27 | Then , the GLC , appalled at the waste and dereliction of this gigantic site in the heart of London , declared the place an ‘ Action Area ’ and tried to inspire development from the top down . |
| 28 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 29 | The company alleges that the information came from a stolen document , and wants to take action against the source . |
| 30 | Thus a person who carries on a VAT exempt business ( such as a bookmaker , dentist , doctor , funeral director or registered nursing home ) might deliberately start a small-scale taxable business and hope to take advantage of the rules . |