Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 2 | He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised . |
| 3 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 4 | And when I found Dr Kenneth , he told me someone had seen Isabella and Heathcliff meeting secretly in the garden earlier that evening . |
| 5 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recently . |
| 6 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 7 | it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice . |
| 8 | Since the MBO , BSM has started to refurbish its branches , launched a motorway test and sought to move closer to the corporate fleet market by offering courses on risk minimisation to corporate drivers . |
| 9 | Many karateka get this wrong and make use only of the arm action . |
| 10 | He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased . |
| 11 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 12 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
| 13 | If the work of the SDPP is taken alongside that of another team on school management , the School Management Task Force ( DES 1990a ) , the benefit emerges of seeing how detailed proposals for management and review penetrate deep into the daily work of the school and how that detail can be set in the larger context of characteristics ( thirteen in number ) of effective schools ( DES 1990a : 5-6 ) , set against six management tasks which are regarded as having high priority following the 1988 Act . |
| 14 | The right leg seems to be the worst — looks as if he was crouching and got knocked sideways by the bumper , then run over , ’ Ben said briskly . |
| 15 | Only in this case can breathing and heartbeat continue independently of the patient 's own ability to sustain them . |
| 16 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 17 | This report has therefore left until the end the question of the degree to which the ESSE/L Project has achieved the targets it has set itself , and has roamed widely across the experiences of those involved both directly and indirectly with the project . |
| 18 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 19 | For Charlie is one of Scotland 's best known pipers and has travelled all over the world with the Black Watch to play at social and diplomatic functions . |
| 20 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 21 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 22 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 23 | He walked barefoot to three shrines , and he returned shriven , and has done more for the church than any King of Alba before him . |
| 24 | For the past sixteen years , he has lived and worked in New York and has battled daily with the American inability to understand the strange words and peculiar constructions which lace and buckle his Wexford brogue . |
| 25 | The Audit Commission was established in 1982 to address this issue and has campaigned vigorously for the introduction of performance review considering this an appropriate response to many of the problems perceived to be afflicting local authorities . |
| 26 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 27 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 28 | Dr Breeze is an international authority on Roman archaeology and has published extensively on the subject . |
| 29 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 30 | In the case of one interactional variable , the agreement-marking " you know what I mean " , it seems fairly certain that this originated in the Caribbean community and has spread outwards to the wider community of LE speakers . |