Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this was known in 1926 when Paneth and Peters attempted to join two hydrogen protons to make helium , as the discovery of the neutron only occurred in 1932 . |
| 2 | But eventually they come to accept the situation and seem able to live each day more perfectly and more beautifully than the rest of us are able to do . |
| 3 | FISH are lining up to be caught at Moreton Mere and look set to provide great fishing in Saturday 's Octoplus Echo Spring Classic Final . |
| 4 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 5 | The National Audit Office is investigating the inspectorate 's efficiency , while the National Society for Clean Air said recent restructuring had ‘ resulted in confusion and disaffection and seems unlikely to achieve any improvement in pollution control ’ . |
| 6 | All knowledge of life and lives , and indeed of history , is a good in itself , and seems likely to inform literary intelligence ; and in addition Amis 's novels would rather confuse if thought to be the work of an early Tudor writer . |
| 7 | ‘ From the way both drivers got out from their vehicles and looked ready to tear each other apart , I doubt it , ’ Ven answered , and halted at her bedroom door . |
| 8 | After the surgery Donal had speech therapy and felt able to do some work . |
| 9 | The UN is being asked to police Iraq 's border with Kuwait ; to decide how much oil Iraq sells abroad and what it can buy in return ; to make sure Iraq destroys any nuclear- or chemical-weapons plants ; and to get ready to protect Kurdish enclaves when American , British and French soldiers leave . |
| 10 | Even when feminist psychology deals with class differences , it often reproduces conventional psychology 's concentration on areas which dominant discourses of class see as important , like sexuality , and attitudes to success ( Rainwater 1972 , Weston and Mednick 1972 ) , and proves unable to see working-class subjects as psychologically or socially different from each other . |
| 11 | But on 21 July , Edward I ordered Jean de Grilly to obey Philip III 's summons and to make ready to perform military service ; but in his reply to the king of France he was to stress that in the 1259 treaty ‘ the certainty of the said service has not yet been found ’ . |