Example sentences of "and [verb] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK profession has therefore been tireless , both directly and through the Groupe Consultatif , in seeking to influence the Directives and to promote the advantages of the British system . |
| 2 | Through their power of patronage , the King and the Lords were able to exert " influence " over the composition of the lower chamber so oiling the relations between the King and the representatives of the people and cementing the elements of the constitution into some kind of working whole . |
| 3 | The organizer starts and squeezes the hands of the person next to him . |
| 4 | In 1278 Pope Nicholas III , dissatisfied with Kilwardby 's attempts to resist secular encroachment and to implement the decisions of the recent Council of Lyons ( 1274 ) , promoted him to be cardinal bishop of Porto and Sta . |
| 5 | I must get the daffodils out of the porch and change the ones round the house , they 're looking a bit tired . |
| 6 | With right sides facing , pin and baste the tails to the lining , on the stitching line , leaving an opening to turn through . |
| 7 | Although there was an express clause in the employment contract by which the employee was under a duty " to promote , extend and develop the interests of the company " the court would clearly have reached the same conclusion on the basis of the implied duty of fidelity . |
| 8 | Altogether , during the years between 1941 and 1945 , the District appointed a total of nineteen women graduate tutors to provide courses and develop the activities of the District in Cambridgeshire , Essex , Hertfordshire , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk . |
| 9 | Bell , therefore , not only saved the deaf class in the school from closure , but also introduced the oral method of teaching and laid the foundations for the present day Garvel Centre for the Deaf ( as the unit is called ) . |
| 10 | New selling aids and point-of-sale material were presented by Michael Saulet , Marketing Director Ralph Ellis , Managing Director , concluded the conference with a review of the trading year in which he re-affirmed the company strategy for the Autumn trading period and laid the foundations for the future . |
| 11 | But on day-to-day issues or on detailed matters where the minister would not be authorized to intervene by the relevant act , however much he might discuss these points on an informal basis and influence the actions of the board , Parliament can do nothing . |
| 12 | ‘ They say the Hidden Folk have come out of the mountains and attacked the Rorims to the south in league with the beasts , ’ the landlord whispered confidentially . |
| 13 | The railcoaches however , went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system . |
| 14 | Understanding and compassion will defuse the situation with the parents showing them what to do and helping the children with the task . |
| 15 | And finally it is divided in such a way that the learner hears only one of the speakers and supplies the responses for the other . |
| 16 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 17 | Tomorrow , she would go to the finest jeweller in London and sell the gems for the best price she could get . |
| 18 | In the Civil War the Red Army had blocked off the northern part of the Ukraine from the hungry south and commandeered the crops from the north for Great-Russian cities . |
| 19 | This supports the development of software for controlling networks of machines , managing data bases and handling the complexities of the Japanese language . |
| 20 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |
| 21 | The King 's announcement came amidst reports on April 15 that 43 intellectuals and businessmen had published an open letter calling on the King to establish national and municipal councils and to curb the activities of the Islamic religious police , the mutaween . |
| 22 | More specifically , the seminars are intended to identify the nature and effectiveness of the public policy response in terms of the broad strategy and detailed instruments used and to debate the alternatives for the 1990s . |
| 23 | The idea was classically Churchillian , to ‘ set Europe ablaze ’ , to send saboteurs and subversives to create a reign of terror and make the lives of the occupiers ‘ an intense torment ’ . |
| 24 | If it needs a round connection box ( known as a conduit box or BESA box ) recessed into the wall to contain the connections , chop out the recess and fit the box in place , then feed in the supply cable and make the connections to the fitting . |
| 25 | Indeed they said they could even help , and make the changes for the better . |
| 26 | Any form of ostentatious behaviour , any form of public flaunting , would be utterly disgraceful and make the sponsors of the Bill regret what they have done . |
| 27 | The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore . |
| 28 | Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts . |
| 29 | Patrick looked round and met the eyes of the Detective Sergeant . |
| 30 | The Chair , interprets and enforces the rules of the meeting . |