Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 2 | Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing . |
| 3 | This means that there will be no restriction on the number of places available and I am hoping that as many parents as possible will come and so help to make a real occasion of it . |
| 4 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
| 5 | The recurrent celebration of the martyrs ' feast days catered for the need to make the church 's past present , linked the sacred time of the Christian year into the sacred history of God 's holy people , and so helped to reconcile a triumphant faith which had emerged dominant in society , with the tenacious sense that blessedness lay in being persecuted for his name , and it kept alive a sense that Christ 's kingdom was not of this world . |
| 6 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 7 | It 's been a very big step to use pressure flow studies at all , and now that we 're used to using pressure flow studies , we 're going to have to go back to the drawing board and perhaps learn to use a different kind of technology that 's ambulatory , that allows us |
| 8 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 9 | This had been cooked with mint , lime and enough coriander to give a sneaky kung fu blow in the back of one 's throat . |
| 10 | Here are some examples which confirm that professional Japanese and Chinese translators are sensitive to the difference in function of the passive in English and in their target languages and generally tend to replace a large number of English passive structures with active structures in their target texts in order to avoid negative connotations . |
| 11 | At the most recent target for the Antipodian Don Quixote , who tilts not at windmills but at woodturners , and not wishing to turn a non-existent battle into a war of attrition , I can only wonder who Mike Darlow will focus his attentions on next ! |
| 12 | ‘ Any developments towards integration should take this diversity into account and not seek to prescribe a uniform model when national differences do not compromise the objective of efficient and secure international settlement . ’ |
| 13 | Densan tended initially to limit managerial discretion much more and thus seemed to offer a better alternative for labour . |
| 14 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 15 | Firstly , it is an order matching system and thus tends to have a slower response rate than , say , LIFFE 's APT system . |
| 16 | From their point of view individualism gives up too soon , and thus fails to reveal a whole dimension of the social world . |
| 17 | to achieve the immediate objective and thus have taken a significant step towards achieving the overall aim |
| 18 | Yet in spite of the increasing number of school libraries ( and the growing number of professional librarians running them , albeit still an unsatisfactorily small number ) the public library can and still does offer a useful user education service to schoolchildren . |
| 19 | Fennel , Bowers and Satz ( 1977 ) , for example , took pains to devise a tachistoscopic analogue of their dichotic task and still failed to find a significant correlation between the two sets of scores , although there was an increasing agreement over four testing sessions between the side of the ear advantage and the superior visual half-field . |
| 20 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 21 | Many of them struggle on bravely and still manage to take a limited amount of daily exercise , but sometimes a point is reached when they are no longer able to go out alone at all to enjoy any kind of social life . |
| 22 | If a keycard is lost the lock is simply and quickly recoded to accept a new card without the need and cost to replace a lock or reckey a cylinder . |
| 23 | You 're not that blonde one I 've noticed driving around and nearly swerved to have a better look at the other day are you ? |
| 24 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 25 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 26 | Since the banking was taken on we have already seen £4 million in deposit balances and also hope to complete a financial arrangement with RoyScot which could provide £20k in commission to the Branch . ’ |
| 27 | Hence , following his recent tour of the region [ see p. 37758 ] , Kaifu promised additional aid and loans to countries adversely affected by the crisis , and also proposed sending a token force of up to 2,000 non-combatants drawn from Japan 's Self-Defence Forces , police and fire brigade . |
| 28 | The Group is also planning an annual conference and exhibition of related hardware and software and also intends to establish a full electronic bulletin board service allowing on-line problem solving . |
| 29 | Both Greeks and Latins had transformed the original Christian message to meet their own condition and both needed to develop a contemplative tradition within this active faith when the time was right . |
| 30 | The retired Everton Football Club salesman has keenly followed the campaign and thoroughly enjoys finding a little fame at 70 . |