Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days the infant Crocker had run up paths lightly and gleefully to bang on a knocker or ring a bell and , elated with an enormous naughtiness , hidden behind a hedge to see the angry householder erupt and curse . |
| 2 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 3 | The IPR 's main objectives are : ( a ) to promote the development of public relations for the benefit of the practice in commerce ; industry , central and local government ; nationalized undertakings ; professional , trade , and voluntary organizations and for the benefit of all practitioners , and others concerned in or with public relations ; ( b ) to encourage and foster the observance of high professional standards by its members and to establish and prescribe such standards ; ( c ) to arrange meetings , discussions , conferences , etc , on matters of common interest , and generally to act as a clearing house for the exchange of ideas on the practice of public relations . |
| 4 | He has a meaty agenda , but it is also messy , bitty , hard to legislate and harder to encapsulate with a flourish . |
| 5 | By the 1870s Darwin 's evolutionary ideas had come to prevail generally , and also to act as a paradigm in fields remote from his own . |
| 6 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 7 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 8 | During his conversations with Marcus , when they did take place , Ludens had the impression that Marcus was pursuing a consecutive line of thought , sections of which were randomly surfacing for Ludens 's benefit , or even for Marcus 's benefit , at moments when Marcus felt it might clarify his ideas to verbalise them aloud , and even to listen to a response . |
| 9 | To menace , and even to fire on a comrade ? |
| 10 | And then to apply for a job , I think should be on the complete basis of what what they are , what they 've achieved , what they 've done , regardless of whether they 're male or female . |
| 11 | Every movement within a form teaches him to defend by blocking or manoeuvring and then to attack with a strike or a kick . |
| 12 | Such use may be an infringement of any design rights that the buyer has in the designs embodied in these tools , but he will in general prefer to avoid the attempt to invoke these rights , and instead to rely on a provision like cll 8.1 and 8.2 of Precedent 2 . |
| 13 | I 've been back now and again to stay for a while , hoping it would all work out . |
| 14 | He said to be very wary and never to speak with a man wearing corduroy trousers , because he would be a bohemian . |
| 15 | This has two purposes , firstly to illustrate the above assertion about the pervasiveness of layering and secondly to act as a reminder that there are important double diffusive flows that do not arise from instability of vertical gradients . |