Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 2 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 3 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 4 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 5 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 6 | The best perm for your hair type would be a conditioning perm which contains protein ingredients to strengthen and condition during the perming process . |
| 7 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 8 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |
| 10 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 11 | By self-determination we mean the right for us to associate and integrate with the unitary state , or , as a nation , to secede . ’ |
| 12 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 13 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |
| 14 | ( d ) Transfer A reminder to prepare and send to the other side for approval the draft transfer in duplicate . |
| 15 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 16 | In this way every general practitioner could shape and contribute to the future research and development of primary care . |
| 17 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 18 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 19 | He must try and look on the positive side as far as Maisie 's conversion was concerned . |
| 20 | It is possible to land and look in the micro eddy to the right . |
| 21 | Hawley decided on an immediate attack by his dragoons on the enemy right wing before his own weary infantry had got into line , convinced that the Highlanders would break and run at the mere sight of the royal cavalry charging sword in hand . |
| 22 | The scanner is linked to a PC , which is used to display , manipulate , and work on the electronic image . |
| 23 | Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes . |
| 24 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 25 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 26 | There is some common ground between these two approaches to selection of materials for Science teaching , but they do result in radically different programmes : the content based approach is much easier to understand and interpret by the average teacher whereas the process-based approach often strikes much deeper towards the prior aim of making learners think more scientifically in a world where this process is increasingly necessary for survival . |
| 27 | With the opening of the Great Hall on 15th April 1992 , you and your family will find there is so much more to see and discover at the National Railway Museum . |
| 28 | Computers will be able to produce acceptable speech patterns and they will be able to recognise and react to the human voice . |
| 29 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 30 | They are produced by life and , though they do not constitute the animating principle , they are essential for the creative energy to manifest and function on the physical plane . |