Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This facility , the first of its kind in the world and built with the aid of a £100 000 grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council , should allow chemical companies to design catalyst much more rationally — and so help to avoid future disasters like the dioxin explosion in Seveso , Italy . |
| 2 | These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition . |
| 3 | When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true . |
| 4 | However , such quantities are difficult to measure and so have received less attention . |
| 5 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 6 | We realise that the degree of protection needed varies from one person to another , and so have introduced two levels of cover into the Midland Personal Accident Plan : Gold Cover and Silver Cover . |
| 7 | The role of the lecturer was to act as a channel of communication between company and college , to explain each to the other , to organise and perhaps deliver bespoke short courses , and to contribute his or her skills to the company . |
| 8 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 9 | These eggs , or nits , hatch out , start feeding and soon begin to lay more eggs . |
| 10 | If we free our necks and allow our heads to go ‘ forward and up ’ and our backs to ‘ lengthen and widen ’ , we begin to restore what he called ‘ Primary Control ’ and gradually learn to perform any movement with a new naturalness , lightness and freedom . |
| 11 | ‘ We tried to recover all the pieces that we could and still hope to recover more parts , ’ Kermit said . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
| 13 | Counter them we must , for the resulting dialogue offers both parties the opportunity to grasp and hopefully come to understand contrasting viewpoints . |
| 14 | Both tables conceal significant variations in responses between readers of ‘ quality ’ and ‘ tabloid ’ newspapers ( Table 1.3 ) : the former remain wedded to their preferred medium , using it much more extensively as a means of surveying the world in depth , whilst readers of tabloid newspapers rely more heavily on television and also tend to attach greater credibility to it as a source of news ( Table 1.4 ) . |
| 15 | These drinks work to counteract the acidity of your urine , which will ease the burning sensation on passing water , and also help to stop any bacteria in the bladder from multiplying . |
| 16 | Most day-release is concerned with socialising representatives into forms of collective bargaining which are under challenge , and carefully avoid encouraging creative thought about representatives ' role in generating and sustaining organisational change . |
| 17 | So er for instance if Bolton and Notts County er at the end of their group matches both have seven points and both have scored eight goals but Bolton have conceded two and Notts County have conceded three , then Bolton will go through on goal difference . |
| 18 | Should you not have made these calculations and blithely continue entering more stitch patterns , you will be given no warning that you are approaching the limit of the memory . |
| 19 | Students , she says , fall into two categories : those who have spent their school-days having fun and now risk getting useless grades , and those with high-grade offers from universities who are scared that they might miss their target . |
| 20 | I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist . |
| 21 | Ace , you and Benny continue with what you 're doing until the Marines arrive in the morning , and please stop making that face . ’ |
| 22 | In a very human example of technology transfer , children at several hospitals in the UK and abroad have had unsightly birthmarks ( sometimes called ‘ port-wine stains ’ ) treated by a new laser system developed by AEA and licensed to SLS Ltd . |
| 23 | In this extension , the waves cross , mutually focus each other , re-expand and then separate leaving Minkowski space between them to the future . |
| 24 | My approach is to research the zoology of the various creatures , the ecology , chemistry , and physical properties of the sea , and then try to mimic these conditions as far as possible in a home aquarium . |
| 25 | In the gym the weights must be light and movements explosive ; for example you could see how many repetitions you can perform in 10 seconds and then try to beat that amount . |
| 26 | Some children get worried or feel uncomfortable because they fail to chew and then try to swallow large lumps of food which cause them to gag and vomit . |
| 27 | Thus , the partners should decide what each needs to do to improve the relationship and then attempt to make these changes , without the behaviour of one being entirely contingent on whether or not the other partner does what was agreed . |
| 28 | He would order the androids to suppress all dissent and extinguish all opposition , and then return to become supreme ruler of the Althosian system . |
| 29 | Finish your wine , ’ he said easily as he handed back her glass , ‘ and then go get some sleep . ’ |
| 30 | How dared this man think that he could just move back into her life — after five long years — and then begin treating this place as if it were his own home ? |