Example sentences of "and [vb -s] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 2 | Amalgamemnon takes the pejorative term ‘ redundancy ’ and uses it to fight the very exclusion it designates . |
| 3 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 4 | The tongue helps the process of swallowing by producing a lot of mucus which lubricates the food and prevents it scratching the delicate membranes of the throat . |
| 5 | Its present Statute entered into force on 15 July 1955 , and declares it to have a permanent character , with the object of ‘ the progressive unification of the rules of private international law ’ . |
| 6 | It 's what you 've written a a complete idea in itself , and does it have a main verb . |
| 7 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 8 | Today we are aware that the nurse or the doctor who sees the patient , assesses the wound , and treats it carries a great responsibility for the ultimate outcome . |