Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders .
2 Although the breath H 2 test is sensitive and non-invasive and widely applied for the study of carbohydrate malabsorption , there are certain problems in the interpretation of its results .
3 Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son .
4 Only in modern times , since the power of ruling groups was explicitly and widely challenged in the name of democracy , and later of social democracy , has the question of the nature and basis of the state become a matter of acute controversy , giving rise to the two antithetical conceptions which I have indicated .
5 Similar movements have appeared elsewhere in North Africa : for example , the Tendance Islamique in Tunisia , the Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) in Algeria and the Green Revolution in Libya , which is now virtually the official programme of the Qaddafi regime and widely identified with the Colonel personally .
6 As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion .
7 I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with .
8 Thus , it may be that the only undertaking being made is that the sample was honestly and properly taken from the bulk , as was the case in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 .
9 It is practice to state in the agreement that all warranties are subject to matters fairly and properly disclosed in the disclosure letter .
10 We have to be ever so particular that all of them are labelled and properly entered in the book .
11 Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page .
12 Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page .
13 On 19 August 1785 the following motion was proposed by Rev Thomas Burgess : ‘ That Farriery is a most useful science and intimately connected with the interest of Agriculture ; that it is in a very imperfect and neglected state , and highly deserving of the attention of all friends of Agricultural economy .
14 The binary policy , which is central to the history of higher education from its elaboration in the second half of the 1960s , and intimately related to the history of the CNAA 's own policies and operations , is explained by many or all of these factors , but can not be separated from perceptions of the roles and attitudes of the universities that we have previously discussed , and which were part of the decision-making environment of the mid- and late 1960s .
15 Power stations have been designed and successfully operated on the basis of that knowledge .
16 This line of argument was often and successfully used by the dictatorship ; its absorption by many Spaniards contributed in no small measure to the duration of the regime .
17 Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes .
18 Some jellyfish beat the edges of the bell rhythmically and thereby rise in the water to remain near the surface .
19 This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion .
20 If he did have designs on her , and a plan to marry Mr Eddie Hogan 's daughter and thereby marry into the business , then why was he saying all the things that would irritate and upset her ?
21 There would be no buildings or other structures on the breakwater extension which would raise its height significantly above the existing breakwaters and thereby interfere with the radar station .
22 If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany .
23 What it does indicate is the demands of liberal ideology that the virtues of ‘ national prejudice ’ be justified and thereby translated from the category of ‘ prejudice ’ .
24 There was a widespread feeling that areas of outstanding natural beauty should be protected from the greed of miners and loggers and thereby preserved for the benefit of future generations .
25 The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface .
26 An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society .
27 These were eroded and eventually covered with the sea that deposited the limestone now lying above them .
28 The restoration process lasted for several years , extending to other parts of the station , and eventually cost in the region of £10m .
29 Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec .
30 They then migrate into the lymphoid tissue and eventually return to the blood circulation .
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