Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 2 | The incoming government proposed to diversify Codelco 's production and vigorously opposed the new law , from which the article restricting Codelco 's operations was ultimately removed . |
| 3 | They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 . |
| 4 | As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons . |
| 5 | Encouraged by the Labour government of 1964–70 and the attempt of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to restructure parts of British industry , GEC took over AEI and English Electric and successfully reorganised the ailing electronics industry during the 1960s by rationalisation , elimination of duplication and elimination of excess capacity . |
| 6 | Last year , the Texas delegation in the House sided with American Airlines against repeal and successfully blocked the relevant bill . |
| 7 | Here synthesis has been used to clarify the structure of this material and thence show the biosynthetic relationship of haem d 1 to other families of the ‘ pigments of life ’ . |
| 8 | The train stopped , and instantly passenger after passenger mounted the roofs , and thence saluted the Royal company with a united shout of welcome . |
| 9 | And thence begins the ecological richness of Africa . |
| 10 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 11 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 12 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 13 | One was a technological convergence which raised productivity levels in European and Japanese industry and thereby diminished the absolute superiority of US industry . |
| 14 | Physical skills such as slow breathing or chewing gum can reduce the heart rate and thereby lessen the automatic appraisal of the stressor as threatening . |
| 15 | In order to avoid automatic cuts , the summit negotiators faced the prospect of raising taxes and cutting expenditure , or of raising the Gramm-Rudman targets and thereby loosening the only form of discipline governing the budgetary process . |
| 16 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Retroviruses displaying antibody fragments might also be used to retain the retrovirus in the vicinity of a tumour , and thereby reduce the systemic spread of recombinant retroviruses . |
| 18 | Alternatively , HCO 3 - secretion may be induced via activation of basolateral Na + /H + secretion may be induced via activation of basolateral Na + /H + exchange or Na + -HCO &- co-transport , resulting in cellular HCO 3 - accumulation and thereby increasing the driving force for HCO 3 - exit across the apical membrane . |
| 19 | Chris and Owen often indulge in brief physical exchanges apparently designed to communicate acceptance and friendliness and thereby reinforce the consensual nature of social control . |
| 20 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 21 | It devalues this life , offers a delusional picture of the world , and thereby intimidates the independent use of intelligence . |
| 22 | The transferee of a straight bill also acquires the right to notify the carrier of the transfer , and thereby to become the direct obligee of whatever obligations the carrier owed to the transferor of the bill immediately before the notification , including delivery of the goods . |
| 23 | The ‘ Recordites ’ , as they were called , followed Haldane in affirming the verbal inspiration of the Bible , attacking liberal theology and Catholicism , maintaining a rigorous sabbatarianism , and staunchly defending the Established Church . |
| 24 | They had second thoughts and eventually challenged the legal effectiveness of the memorandum . |
| 25 | The trail strayed round and eventually reached the small clearing . |
| 26 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 27 | ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) . |
| 28 | He founded an airline and eventually controlled the American company , TWA . |
| 29 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 30 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |