Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Both have washed rinds and a firm texture and tend to have the washed rind garage-cheese smell , as described in the section on soft cheeses ( p69 ) .
2 Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm .
3 The beautiful ones wear ornate regional head-dresses , chime bells and yodel to welcome the New Year , while nature mummers appear in costumes of pine-cones , moss and snail shells .
4 Mr Blair said a recent Government campaign had focused on car security and failed to tackle the central problem of youth crime .
5 There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension .
6 He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger .
7 The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level .
8 Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service .
9 Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York .
10 I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could .
11 In the 1870s , a series of military reforms gave new impetus to the professionalization of the officer corps , and sought to emulate the Prussian example by introducing universal conscription , building a reserve of trained men , and reducing the size of the massive standing army .
12 The new budget granted greater financial autonomy to the public sector , and sought to encourage the private sector , both local and foreign , to invest and to increase employment .
13 The Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage , Robert Key , introducing the draft order , said the increase in funding was more than 5% , which recognised the costs of a new computer and sought to maintain the real level of the rate per loan to authors .
14 Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs .
15 This part of the grape 's flesh produces the richest juice in terms of sugar , acids and trace elements , and goes to make the highest quality Champagnes .
16 GCC Defence Ministers met in Jeddah on Aug. 22 and agreed to reinforce the Peninsular Shield Force , the organization 's Saudi-based rapid deployment force [ see p. 34265 ] .
17 Mongolia became a member of the Group of 77 in June and applied to join the Non-aligned Movement in 1991 .
18 In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor .
19 The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre , the legal capital .
20 " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey .
21 Congress , the woman worker is often low paid , and suffers from the menopause symptom and has to pay the full prescription charges for a treatment of H R T.
22 Before proceeding , it is perhaps appropriate to examine what is meant by deregulation and to try to access the likely effect of the philosophy if it is fully extended to international air transport .
23 In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family .
24 It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with .
25 And you put up with his way of making decisions for you , even if , one day , you wake up and want to wear the green skirt he hates , watch Morse which he ca n't stand …
26 Sweetman turned and pretended to notice the sports-fishing boat for the first time .
27 Loss of N 2 is presumed to lead to the formation of a nitrene , SiMe 3 N : , but this is unstable , and rearranges to give the observed product .
28 Mid-sole : the layer between the sole and insole of the boot , which is anatomically shaped and designed to give the correct amount of flex and support for the activity for which the boot is designed .
29 In short , distance from the equator , winds , lay-out and height of continents , soil chemistry , past history , animals , plants , human history , and time and chance combine and interact to produce the particular set of conditions in any one place .
30 Married since college , they run a highly successful advertising business and appear to have the perfect marriage .
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