Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | Humility is to orient our lives towards God , so that we understand and obey him in a greater and greater sense . |
| 3 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 4 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 5 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 6 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 7 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 8 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 9 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 10 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 11 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 12 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
| 13 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 14 | In the final analysis students , although able to generate new ideas and disseminate them within a limited circle of people , do not have power and are no match for the military . |
| 15 | A frame store could freeze any moment of the action on screen , and display it as a still picture . |
| 16 | Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane . |
| 17 | We will now develop these themes and combine them in a systematic way to construct an improved understanding of the relationship between daily life and the nation state . |
| 18 | I would like to take each tent by the comer and pull it down , and I would untether all the neat horses and the sleek , brushed bulls and send them with a huge cry into all the hills . |
| 19 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 20 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 21 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 22 | Brought in from Luxenbourg , it will process the slag created as a by-product of the metal smelting process and transform it into a valuable type of cement . |
| 23 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 24 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 25 | But there will be those who will grab the trends and steer them into a new direction . |
| 26 | But the important thing is that the voluntary sector must hijack the trends from the old statism to the new individualism , and steer it into a better way . |
| 27 | I am confident that KP 's substantial experience and resources can protect its unique brand values and build it into a major international brand . ’ |
| 28 | though this a bit rich and observed that it was the study 's authors who proposed , in effect , to remove directors ' responsibilities for judgmental matters and vest them in an omniscient panel of assessors . |
| 29 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 30 | Or to go to the police and report her as a Fifth Columnist . ’ |