Example sentences of "and [vb base] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | In turn , clients ' expectations are growing ; they are more informed , more knowledgeable about the process , much more likely to adopt an open style , and want to know the key facts , expecting a high level of overall professionalism . |
| 7 | Because personal power is the promotion of self , we send positive data on ourselves up the hierarchy and forget to send the negative data — that is , we tell our superiors how good we are . |
| 8 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 9 | Fold the excess lining pastry over the lid and press to seal the two layers of pastry together . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Married since college , they run a highly successful advertising business and appear to have the perfect marriage . |
| 12 | What we are left with is a disagreeable story tinged with Joe Orton 's misogyny and urge to puncture the frail facade of petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 13 | The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee . |
| 14 | Cleveland police have studied the Derby operation and hope to use the same type of scheme . |
| 15 | It would be a mad gamble of course , to launch an invasion from a European port and hope to evade the British fleet . |
| 16 | It is essential that alternative accommodation should be very varied in type and support to give the greatest degree of independence to patients commensurate with their disabilities and to enable adjustments to be made in small steps . |
| 17 | [ On ] our hypothesis the ego instincts arise from the coming to life of inanimate matter and seek to restore the inanimate state . |
| 18 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 19 | How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain , which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments ? |
| 20 | Sophisticated systems incorporate audible and visual signals to warn of product exhaustion , or malfunction , and interlock to prevent the wrong product being fitted . |
| 21 | These concentrations always present a clear decrease however and seem to contradict the apparent lack of a mutant phenotype . |
| 22 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 23 | It was one thing to form an intention to compete while employed , but quite another to take active steps to induce other managers to join the competing enterprise and negotiate to deprive the employing company of its best customer . |
| 24 | While some downright starve , and others scrimp and save to afford the large cod and chips , not the small , a few spend thousands on sunken baths and antique rugs . |
| 25 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 26 | The travellers escape and manage to warn the Thal party in time to save most of them . |
| 27 | This forms as the fibrils fan out and begin to create the spherical outline . |
| 28 | Finalise the Report of the International Working Party , seek National Council 's agreement on how to proceed , and begin to implement the resulting policies . |
| 29 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 30 | The Elves finally succeed in driving the last Dark Elves from northern Ulthuan and begin to sweep the northern seas clear of their ships . |