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

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1 With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year .
2 Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries .
3 They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight .
4 Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA .
5 The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect .
6 Practically every device of the movies started as a special effect and became assimilated into the everyday language of film , just like metaphor in language .
7 Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century .
8 This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course .
9 The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement .
10 This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level .
11 For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution .
12 Seagram , one of the world 's largest wines and spirits companies , stepped in and agreed to help save the National .
13 This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative .
14 The decreased total protein and amylase turnover rates are probably a result of a reduction in synthetic rates as the time taken for labelled total protein and amylase to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly longer in the the post-acute pancreatitis patients .
15 He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew .
16 Her soft hands were so unaccustomed to such hard work that it became — temporarily , Miss Mates said , until they hardened — difficult for her to help with the fine sewing , and the darning and repairing needed in the little house .
17 The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage .
18 The deaths are the latest in an epidemic which was first identified in Ireland and has swept through the eastern Mediterranean [ see EDs 49/50 , 51 ] .
19 He assures them Virgin Atlantic can and does compete on cost as well as service , but he claims British Airways is n't playing fair and has complained to the European commission that B A is offering anti-competitive deals Virgin claims it 's losing business as a result .
20 This represents a rise of a massive 140pc and has contributed to the high number of households registered as a priority for rehousing due to homelessness , currently 211 .
21 ‘ The Queen has now made a gesture towards public opinion and has recognised in the modern world that the monarch does have to pay income tax .
22 It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons .
23 Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture .
24 He is a chartered engineer and has served with the Royal Air Force as an aerosystems engineering officer .
25 Mark , 27 , who is married with two children , has been a soldier for nine years and has served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers .
26 Alison is a ‘ people person ’ and has served on the consultative committee .
27 Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed .
28 Powder Byrne , which offers off-piste skiing courses as add-ons to its hotel and chalet holidays in the Swiss Alps , is a confirmed user , and has hit on the bright idea of recycling some of last winter 's footage as a low-key promotional device .
29 However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society .
30 The Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , declared that the programme of austerity and fiscal conservatism of the previous government had paid off and that the Netherlands economy had become " healthier … and has emerged from the serious slump of the late 1970s and early 1980s " .
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