Example sentences of "and [vb base] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both have washed rinds and a firm texture and tend to have the washed rind garage-cheese smell , as described in the section on soft cheeses ( p69 ) . |
| 2 | Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm . |
| 3 | The beautiful ones wear ornate regional head-dresses , chime bells and yodel to welcome the New Year , while nature mummers appear in costumes of pine-cones , moss and snail shells . |
| 4 | This , he told her , was Italy 's great chance , far greater than in '48 , to rid herself of the foreign oppressor and unite to form a great power . |
| 5 | Doubling of the melody can also be used in accompaniments of a different kind , where all other parts are independent of the theme and unite to form a separate entity . |
| 6 | It can therefore provide collectively a formidable knowledge of the University and bring to bear an enormous fund of experience . |
| 7 | I am a non-executive director of a listed company and intend to sell a small part of my shareholding to meet personal commitments as soon as the company has announced its final results . |
| 8 | But the situation was now so critical , and the time for restoring confidence so short , that , very reluctantly , I agreed that each Party must sink its political programme temporarily and combine to pursue an economic policy to save the nation from bankruptcy . |
| 9 | ‘ There has n't been a white champion for such a long time and I think a lot of people are looking toward that and want to see a white champion . ’ |
| 10 | It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with . |
| 11 | Ian Donohue who helped to design the tour t-shirt said : ‘ We will be the first intake of graduates into industry in the 1993 and want to take a first-hand look at what 's happening with the single market . ’ |
| 12 | And you put up with his way of making decisions for you , even if , one day , you wake up and want to wear the green skirt he hates , watch Morse which he ca n't stand … |
| 13 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 14 | Beginners ' German may contain 11-year-olds and 17-year-olds ( and , it is to be hoped , people who have long left school , and want to start a new language ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I have inherited a pub full of history and want to know a little bit more about it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | In turn , clients ' expectations are growing ; they are more informed , more knowledgeable about the process , much more likely to adopt an open style , and want to know the key facts , expecting a high level of overall professionalism . |
| 17 | Because personal power is the promotion of self , we send positive data on ourselves up the hierarchy and forget to send the negative data — that is , we tell our superiors how good we are . |
| 18 | The efforts of those like Gosse and Agassiz to make a definite theory out of the doctrine of Creation helped to show the value of an alternative approach ; evolution might be made scientific . |
| 19 | In short , distance from the equator , winds , lay-out and height of continents , soil chemistry , past history , animals , plants , human history , and time and chance combine and interact to produce the particular set of conditions in any one place . |
| 20 | Pour in the sand and skim to produce a level surface . |
| 21 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |
| 22 | Married since college , they run a highly successful advertising business and appear to have the perfect marriage . |
| 23 | What we are left with is a disagreeable story tinged with Joe Orton 's misogyny and urge to puncture the frail facade of petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 24 | The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee . |
| 25 | It would be a mad gamble of course , to launch an invasion from a European port and hope to evade the British fleet . |
| 26 | GKR are trying to make the business an international one by opening in Japan and in Germany , and hope to build an international business of wholly-owned subsidiaries of GKR . |
| 27 | [ On ] our hypothesis the ego instincts arise from the coming to life of inanimate matter and seek to restore the inanimate state . |
| 28 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 29 | This is because both agencies are fighting for a larger share of the available budget and seek to create a good impression by producing the most frightening scenario . |
| 30 | How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain , which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments ? |