Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first ICU the patient is correctly diagnosed and treated to correct the physiological variables . |
| 2 | The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre , the legal capital . |
| 3 | Classical literature is systematically castigated by Nizan as a process of deception centred on myth-making , idealism and symbolism , and designed to defend the oppressive practices of a dying class . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Progressive literature is consistently upheld by Nizan as a process of disclosure centred on reality , Marxism and realism , and designed to advocate the justifiable demands of an aspiring class . |
| 6 | He jumped out of bed , contemplated his new seaside pyjamas with renewed pleasure , and prepared to enjoy the second week of his precious holiday . |
| 7 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 8 | I adjusted the chauffeur 's cap I 'd borrowed , hoisted a rudely lettered sign reading ‘ Mr & Mrs Stewart Hughes ’ ( the misspelling was a tad masterly , I thought ) , took a deep breath and prepared to face the glittering turmoil that my life would become . |
| 9 | To cut costs and save heat , the hot gases formed during combustion may be recycled and used to preheat the incoming effluent gases . |
| 10 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 11 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 12 | Of the remaining six vehicles , four will be converted from surplus Inter-City catering vehicles and used to provide the principal dining saloon and accommodation for the Royal Household and other staff . |
| 13 | The six graphs describing the freedoms of the complete system were then available ( see Figure 7.34 ) and used to produce the incremental assemblies shown in Figure 7.35 . |
| 14 | UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record . |
| 15 | Traditionally the damaged bone was either left to repair and replace itself as best it could or bone was harvested from elsewhere in the body and used to augment the lost bone . |
| 16 | Others , less fortunate , are caught as game and used to supply the necessary protein for family consumption . |
| 17 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 18 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 19 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 20 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 21 | We may even have earnestly studied and attempted to evaluate the varying utterance from the sublime to the ridiculous which emanates from a number of sources for our education . |
| 22 | The Company 's service engineers are highly qualified , and trained to specify the best use of the equipment for each individual well . |
| 23 | His public pronouncements and statements were brilliantly timed and phrased to send the right signals to Algiers , raise popular expectations at home , and undermine the credibility of the Pflimlin government . |
| 24 | Ore from underground is crushed and ground to remove the larger particles . |
| 25 | If it is not to be provided by the health authority , will the Government give an assurance that the schools themselves will be empowered and funded to offer the nursing care that children with special needs require ? |
| 26 | At seventeen he underwent an evangelical conversion and determined to bring the Christian gospel to the Chinese , although inland China was closed to foreigners . |
| 27 | Holding a rolling pin and determined to have the last laugh . |
| 28 | But this time , Santiago 's mayors stormed off to Guatemala City , alerted the international press , and managed to corner the civilian president , Vinicio Cerezo , forcing him to sign an agreement to demilitarise the town . |
| 29 | The Commissioners of Woods and Forests reported in 1812 that about 100,000 acres of suitable land would need to be enclosed and planted to meet the Royal Navy 's requirements of oak timber , but that neglect of the royal forests ‘ had produced … an almost total despair with regard to the prospect of Naval Timber from those Plantations . ’ |