Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair . |
| 2 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 4 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 5 | By 1846 he was deeply worried by the likely effects of free trade on monetary policy , and in two letters to the Standard he argued that , by increasing the demand for imports , free trade would precipitate an outflow of gold and thereby provoke a monetary crisis . |
| 6 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 7 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 8 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 9 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is evident to ( at least some ) others and thereby creates a reciprocal intolerance . |
| 11 | For in that case , the elaborate precautions to avoid eye contact could be read as a suspicion of his motives and thereby create a second order of virtual offence . |
| 12 | This new department , specifically created to raise the profile and thereby create a stronger image for the HCIMA , is working towards greater awareness of the Association and its activities , to promote membership , introduce new ( and enhance existing ) services , and to advise and assist all departments and branches to ensure the HCIMA is market and member led . |
| 13 | Therefore given the sentence ‘ John found the dog ’ , a parse may be used to determine the subject and object of the verb and thereby create a semantic representation of who found what . |
| 14 | In many respects the adoption of this approach increases the problems of containment and control and thereby demands a greater degree of commitment . |
| 15 | The child may rationalise the situation by saying that the family is the only family he or she knows and thereby acquire a psychic balance . |
| 16 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 17 | If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder . |
| 18 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 19 | The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery . |
| 20 | He had beaten the communists in the race to appropriate the resistance and thereby ensure a legitimate power base . |
| 21 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 22 | From the spring of 1935 the Republican left and the Socialists were therefore able to revive and eventually form a new alliance , the Popular Front , to resist ‘ fascism ’ in the future . |
| 23 | Although he does not adopt the frontal assault of Bacon on the ‘ perfect darkness ’ of a despairing scepticism , and eventually advocates a patient acceptance of our limitations , these limitations are , for him , not complete . |
| 24 | Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme . |
| 25 | In many places this molten material was then injected into the fractured rock formed by the thrusting movements , and later , when it solidified , a veinwork of pseudotachylite occurred throughout the gneiss , ‘ welding ’ it together and eventually producing a resistant rock which , in some areas , gives rise to higher hills as at Eaval in South Uist . |
| 26 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 27 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 28 | If the temperature is decreased , this free volume will contract and eventually reach a critical value when there is insufficient free space to allow large scale segmental motion to take place . |
| 29 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 30 | The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it . |