Example sentences of "and [verb] they [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 2 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 3 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 4 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 5 | Within the development zone new incentives need to be devised both to attract high calibre general practitioners and other primary health care workers to the inner city and to encourage them to provide the right kind of services . |
| 6 | They write of " Moille of Keann-outh , or Mull of Oe " and say they found a cheerful and commodious hotel at Port Askaig " nestled securely among well-grown trees . " |
| 7 | They write of " Moille of Keann-outh , or Mull of Oe " and say they found a cheerful and commodious hotel at Port Askaig " nestled securely among well-grown trees . " |
| 8 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 9 | Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm . |
| 10 | To examine the effects of differentiation on ATF1 protein levels we prepared nuclear extracts from UF9 and differentiated F9 ( DF9 ) cells and compared them using the blotting assay . |
| 11 | When Hazlitt and Coleridge visited Alfoxden the following day , Wordsworth was away from home ; but Dorothy provided them with a ‘ frugal repast ’ and let them see the now-abundant manuscripts intended for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 12 | We would issue slides to PS staff and let them run the charging system themselves . |
| 13 | Answer guide : To help them control the level of their expenditure , to assist in planning future levels of expenditure , to help them raise additional finance ( e g. mortgages , hire-purchase etc. ) , and to help them decide the best way to spend their money . |
| 14 | The companies had sought to merge their fleets on the currently lucrative Dover , Folkestone and Ramsgate routes to France which would have fixed prices at one level and allowed them to operate a single timetable . |
| 15 | Then the Philharmonic had some crisis and claimed they needed an extra rehearsal elsewhere . |
| 16 | Kay Evans presented their certificates to all the new teachers who were present , congratulated them all and encouraged them to take an active part in the training days . |
| 17 | Laws are needed to protect women 's rates of pay and ensure they get a fair day 's pay for a fair day 's work . |
| 18 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 19 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
| 20 | The brain receives information about red , blue and green light from the cones and mixes them to produce a multi-coloured image containing a vast range of hues . |
| 21 | But sometimes , on the darkest nights , when the waves pounded the shingle like bursts of distant gunfire , both the science and the symbol would seem to him as transitory as those drowned lives and he would find himself wondering if this great hulk would one day yield to the sea , like the wave-smashed concrete from the last war defences , and like them become a broken symbol of man 's long history on this desolate coast . |
| 22 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 23 | The cash will help companies and inventors developing new products which need patent protection and allow them to exploit the technical information available . |
| 24 | Julie now owns several different types of crystals and finds they have a comforting and calming influence whenever she feels stressed . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's no use playing two wingers like Morrissey and Nevin and asking them to do the defensive bit for you . |
| 26 | At length they would turn the mirror on themselves and find they had no real identity , no positive channel for their new-born sense of racial selfhood . |
| 27 | First year university students are often left bewildered by the challenge of having to organise much of their study time and find they lack the necessary reference skills to work effectively . |
| 28 | It proposes packing foundation boards with regional cultural and professional bigwigs , in fixed proportions to local politicians , and letting them choose the savings-bank bosses . |
| 29 | After an hour of easy walking through heather and scrub they reached the lower slopes , and Richard strode rapidly upwards with no compassion for ‘ Fiery ’ Furness 's middle-age . |
| 30 | Following the reasoning of Longuet-Higgins and Tyler , we suggest that vertical disparities are best understood as a consequence of perspective viewing from two different vantage points and the results we report here show that the human visual system is able to exploit vertical disparities and use them to scale the perceived depth and size of stereoscopic surfaces , if the field of view is sufficiently large . |