Example sentences of "and [vb base] [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 | 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 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 . |
| 7 | Married since college , they run a highly successful advertising business and appear to have the perfect marriage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee . |
| 10 | Cleveland police have studied the Derby operation and hope to use the same type of scheme . |
| 11 | It would be a mad gamble of course , to launch an invasion from a European port and hope to evade the British fleet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | [ On ] our hypothesis the ego instincts arise from the coming to life of inanimate matter and seek to restore the inanimate state . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Sophisticated systems incorporate audible and visual signals to warn of product exhaustion , or malfunction , and interlock to prevent the wrong product being fitted . |
| 17 | These concentrations always present a clear decrease however and seem to contradict the apparent lack of a mutant phenotype . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The travellers escape and manage to warn the Thal party in time to save most of them . |
| 20 | This forms as the fibrils fan out and begin to create the spherical outline . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Elsewhere , in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel , it could question the very bases of musical performance , extending the range of expression and gesture at the same time as it undermined their very validity , and begin to colonise the imprecise border country between theatre , music and performance art . |
| 23 | Marche is for the traveller who wants to turn off the tourist trail , to give the show places a miss , and get to know the green heartland of Italy , the not so self-conscious Italy . |
| 24 | The octagonal nave piers have no capitals and ascend to carry the reticulated nave vault above . |
| 25 | Other long-time surfers settled in the St Agnes area in the Sixties and continue to influence the younger crowd . |
| 26 | Cut off a narrow strip around the edge and use to line the dampened rim of the pie plate . |
| 27 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large rectangle and use to cover the entire cake , smoothing over the corners and keeping a ‘ sloping ’ effect on the roof . |
| 28 | Roll out half the marzipan ( about 350g/12oz ) to a large circle on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour and use to cover the round cake . |
| 29 | Roll out the same amount of blue fondant to a similarly sized area and use to cover the remaining half of the body in the same way . |
| 30 | Roll this out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large rectangle and use to cover the large cake . |