Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It included measures to eliminate imbalances which had emerged in 1988-89 , to improve external competitiveness and to promote reforms in the financial sector . |
| 2 | We will support new research into environmentally-friendly technologies and launch a Great Environment Exhibition to publicise and to promote sales of the cleanest British technologies . |
| 3 | Joyce and her mother would wash , unpick , iron and re-cut articles from the poor box , making them into garments which their original owners would have been hard pressed to recognise . |
| 4 | He equated a lone tree with a lonely person , and paired trees in the same way that he paired humans . |
| 5 | An evaluation of the source established the accuracy of the information it contained and formulated definitions for the various terms employed . |
| 6 | There is an annual profit bonus on liquor sales : this is pensionable and averaged £800 in the last financial year . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State will also chair a new Cabinet sub-committee to bring together Ministers from all key departments and co-ordinate policy for the further improvement of London . |
| 8 | The process of extracting the silver involved smelting the ore , purifying the crude lead and recovering silver from the soft metal , notably by means of the cupellation process . |
| 9 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 10 | It might be that they can discuss and compare life during the Great War , or in the 1920s and 1930s ; or they might want to talk about how expectations , duties , responsibilities have changed since their childhood days . |
| 11 | A SALESMAN turned detective and led police to the bloodstained body of the pregnant wife Marie Wilks , the M50 murder trial heard yesterday . |
| 12 | It is always a pleasure to reply to the beguiling and dulcet tones of the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) . |
| 13 | This manager should be able , through his or her position , to advice and influence colleagues at the highest level . |
| 14 | On May 13 , 1990 , some 1,000 Palestinians , who were escorting the body of a guerrilla who had died in police custody , ransacked a police post near Jordan 's northern border with Syria and attacked members of the Jordanian secret police , the Mukhabarat . |
| 15 | February 20th , 1920 : It was on this date that Adolf Hitler gave up painting and became spokesman for the newly-formed Nazi Party . |
| 16 | Peter Brooke , who left the firm to enter politics in 1979 and became Chairman of the Conservative party , set up the firm 's British base in prestigious but not overtly showy offices in park Lane . |
| 17 | This philosophy , which became known as the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ , persisted into the presidency of his successor and became part of the conditioning material at play in later Washington reflexes . |
| 18 | It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary . |
| 19 | Situated at the head of the Cuckmere valley , on an impressive site in the heart of the Weald and protected by the great bend of the Cuckmere River , this site was chosen for an Augustinian priory in the 13th century and became part of the religious life of the time . |
| 20 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 21 | In this " process of corporate bias " , what had once been merely interest groups crossed the political threshold and became part of the extended state . |
| 22 | The mill was powered by water and became part of the Royal Powder Mill in the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 24 | He went to the University of Durham to study geography on a Navy scholarship and became secretary of the junior common room and college treasurer . |
| 25 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 26 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |
| 27 | Edward 's brother Edmund of Lancaster ( Crouchback ) married Blanche of Artois in 1275 and became governor of the northern French comté of Champagne on her behalf . |
| 28 | Suh Kyung-won was an activist in the farmers ' movement and became president of the Catholic Farmers Association in 1982 . |
| 29 | In 1965 he was made an honorary fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons and became president of the International College of Surgeons . |
| 30 | Paul Cook , professor of laser technology at Brunel and inventor of a laser system which detects causes of night blindness and other eye defects , recently formed and became president of the British Science and Technology Trust . |