Example sentences of "and [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that to rely exclusively on the electoral or parliamentary road to the goal of socialism is to shut-off the possibility of attaining that goal precisely because it overestimates the power of party and the democratic state ; underestimates rival centres of power ; and minimises the moderating implications of parliamentary democracy and much else besides . |
| 2 | 19.1 This Agreement supersedes any arrangements , understandings , promises or agreements made or existing between the Parties hereto prior to or simultaneously with this Agreement and constitutes the entire understanding between the Parties hereto . |
| 3 | They need to be assured that the options for flood relief have been fully explored and that this is the most effective means and produces the minimum amount of damage to the environment . |
| 4 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 5 | This applies the action Op of the rule R to the current state N , and produces the next state of the search . |
| 6 | Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky . |
| 7 | ‘ Even Snookums knows and appreciates the soothing qualities of Johnson 's Toilet and Baby Powder . ’ |
| 8 | The " explanatory survey " , as its name implies , is concerned to gain information from respondents in order to test some theoretical explanation and represents the full-blown expression of variable analysis in the survey tradition . |
| 9 | The Bar Council is responsible for the maintenance of professional standards and represents the general interests of the Bar in its relations with outsiders . |
| 10 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 11 | In the liver , the migrating L2 and L3 can cause " milk spot " which appears as cloudy whitish spots of up to 1.0 cm in diameter , and represents the fibrous repair of inflammatory reactions to the passage of larvae in the livers of previously sensitised pigs ( P1.IV ) . |
| 12 | Again it 's cheap , and offers the least resistance to outside interference . |
| 13 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 14 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 15 | And fits the mounting spirit like myself ; |
| 16 | The master key both advances the stage and records the total number of points counted . |
| 17 | Nicholas Antram has undertaken the revision and records the ongoing demolition of churches , the ‘ insidious suburbanisation ’ particularly noticeable around commuter towns such as Grantham , and the changes in the landscape due to modern farming methods . |
| 18 | Then he feeds the pictures into a computer , which cuts each picture into 1m tiny elements and records the precise shade of grey of each one . |
| 19 | It is therefore the purest example of a tool : ‘ The tremendous importance of money for the understanding of the basic motives of life lies in the fact that money embodies and sublimates the practical relation of man to the objects of his will ’ ( 1978 : 21 1 ) . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , lacunae form within the extra-embryonic mesoderm which proceed to coalesce creating a further cavity , the exocoelom , which is lined by mesoderm and separates the extra-embryonic ectoderm from the epiblast ( Figure 1d ) . |
| 21 | In fact , however , it marks a major transition in the terms of the debate , and separates the concessive form of holism sharply from the absolute form considered earlier . |
| 22 | The aerobic treatment of sewage and wastes from food , chemical and pulp and paper industries is also a well-established practice and involves the microbial decomposition of dissolved organic compounds . |
| 23 | The polymer can then be considered as a series of kinetic units ; each of these moves in an independent manner and involves the co-operative movement of a number of consecutive chain atoms . |
| 24 | He moves the court from Agra to Delhi and builds the Red Fort in the centre of the new Shahjehanabad . |
| 25 | The PAS is well known in the city and receives the overwhelming majority of the section assessment requests received during normal working hours . |
| 26 | The third turning starts in the resulting gap in mid-field and turns the whole field towards the centre , and so on . |
| 27 | Later we come to our senses and see how , while Shakespeare is embalmed in academic papers on ‘ the logical limits of disintegration ’ , his linguistic spirit still animates and haunts the Disney-ravaged landscape of Hughes ' Crow and the metaphysical wilderness of Gaudete . |
| 28 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 29 | This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin . |
| 30 | Her father , whom she obviously dotes on and has the highest respect for , thinks he 's a highly suspicious character — he and Andropulos have n't spoken for years . |