Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentary of this kind is usually very carefully and skilfully scripted to match the pictures it accompanies . |
| 2 | ‘ The package is the council 's direct response to the need to provide women with sensible and practical advice on personal safety , and importantly to help reduce the fear of crime . |
| 3 | A further three wells were drilled and successfully tested to appraise the field — the last being completed in 1991 . |
| 4 | These findings suggest that axonal electrical activity normally controls the production and/or release of the growth factors that are responsible for proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and thereby helps to control the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in the region . |
| 5 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 6 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |
| 7 | The government also postponed the implementation of its plan to send Air Self-Defence Force transport aircraft and crews to help evacuate refugees from the Gulf , and thereby avoided rekindling the debate about the constitutionality of despatching Japanese military units overseas . |
| 8 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 9 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 10 | Later I improved and graduated to two fingers , and eventually learnt to play the tune using all my fingers . |
| 11 | Ibn Fayoud fiddled with the car keys and eventually managed to start the engine . |
| 12 | They may grieve or worry for a while , but will work towards improving their situation , first by acceptance , and eventually coming to view the set-back as an impetus for change and growth . |
| 13 | support for the production of teaching materials is not coordinated and rarely involves monitoring the successes and failures arising through the trial of materials in classrooms |
| 14 | The press reflected the living culture of the people ; it could influence opinion and reinforce existing attitudes but it did not create new forms of entertainment and rarely attempted to alter the habits or loyalties of its readership . |
| 15 | In any event , the education welfare service is frequently too busy and inadequately staffed to exercise the kind of supervision which enables the causes of truancy to be explored fully ( nor to work with schools in order to develop links with parents , as advocated by the Better Schools White Paper in 1985 ) . |
| 16 | The Authors jointly and severally agree to indemnify the Publisher against loss , injury or damage ( including damages for loss of profits and all legal costs and expenses and any compensation costs and disbursements paid by the Publisher to compromise or settle any claim ) occasioned to the Publisher by any claim , action or threatened proceedings arising our of a breach or violation of the warranty in the preceding sub-clause a ) PROVIDED THAT such damages , costs and expenses are incurred pursuant to the judgement of a court of competent jurisdiction or settlement reached with the Company 's prior written consent , which consent will not be withheld or delayed unreasonably . |
| 17 | In Japan as elsewhere the commitment to employment security is an attempt by firms to reduce the turnover of key employees and so avoid transferring the benefits of training programmes to rival firms . |
| 18 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 19 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 20 | These events , they argued , demonstrated that the hand of God himself was at work in the history with which the Bible deals , and so served to authenticate the Bible 's own divine origins . |
| 21 | Water imparts turgor to cells and tissues and so helps to maintain the shape of an organism . |
| 22 | Toys amuse a horse and so help to lessen the chances that the horse will form bad habits which are destructive to itself or its surroundings . |
| 23 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 24 | These plants absorb the carbon dioxide released by the corals and so help to keep the water oxygenated . |
| 25 | On his part , Corbett shrewdly watched the Frenchman and knew he was correct and so moved to close the trap . |
| 26 | When the money supply is increased , people find themselves holding more than they need for current transactions and so attempt to spend the excess . |
| 27 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 28 | In addition , the marker has responded as master-craftsman to apprentice , so to speak : he knows what a court report ought to be like , and so has helped the pupil-writer towards that understanding , and has directed his attention to the part where the reader was confused . |
| 29 | It turns out to be Bajazeth , and so having suffered the bitterness of defeat , he is now totally dehumanised by Tamburlaine , and is humiliated at the same time . |
| 30 | Many researchers point to some pollution control technologies , such as the building of tall stacks for power stations and large industry in order to reduce local pollution , as having increased the long-distance transport of pollutants and so having accentuated the acid rain problem ( figure 4.12 ; Patrick et al. , 1981 ) . |