Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is a chartered engineer and has served with the Royal Air Force as an aerosystems engineering officer . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Alison is a ‘ people person ’ and has served on the consultative committee . |
| 34 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 " . |
| 38 | Work continues on listing the Crawford papers , and has begun on the additional Sutherland papers . |
| 39 | The response from midwives , health visitors , and paediatricians to the education programme has generally been positive and has helped in the practical implementation of the test . |
| 40 | The investigation is ongoing and has spread to the other important cities for art trading , Osaka and Kyoto . |
| 41 | This is to state that is an accredited volunteer with Christian Aid and has agreed with the appropriate Department at Head Office a specific work arrangement . |
| 42 | He has had ample opportunity to exercise leadership , which he almost invariably directs along positive channels , and has improved in the various skills . |
| 43 | Second , the Institute marks-to-market those same current asset investments , and has put into the Investing section ‘ Net profits on sales of current investments ’ and ‘ Increase in market value of current investments ’ . |
| 44 | Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates . |
| 45 | If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government . |
| 46 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 47 | In July 1987 he joined as finance director , and has worked with the top management team to restructure the company within its chosen markets — packaging , printing and industrial films . |
| 48 | He holds a Master of Theology Degree and has worked within the ecumenical movement in the Pacific for more than ten years . |
| 49 | She ran a business and worked in a health shop to work her way through four years of study at the Northern College of Homeopathy , Gateshead , and has practised for the last six months under supervision . |
| 50 | It is strategically placed between London and Bristol in the M4 Corridor and has benefited from the massive growth of the micro-electronic industry . |
| 51 | The LC is aimed at users that need to work away from their desktop but still need to access their applications and want to get into the corporate network . |
| 52 | ‘ I have had a great time at Sunderland , but I am ambitious and want to play in the Premier League . |
| 53 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 54 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 55 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 56 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 57 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 58 | At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction . |
| 59 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
| 60 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |