Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | These flaps gradually grew larger until they met the nasal and became a single sheet of metal , with slits to allow vision and holes for breathing . |
| 2 | Man to man , the Englishman met the Indian and prevailed . |
| 3 | But psychology still treats ‘ race ’ differences as culturally or even biologically absolute categories , and neglects the social and historical relations in which they are embedded . |
| 4 | The planning must then design the introductory and motivating unit ( the " lead lesson " , the " starter pack " , an introductory film , or whatever is the best agent for the particular purpose ) , a schedule of subsequent activity anticipating varieties of use and as many of the consequent hazards as can be foreseen , and the expected conclusion ; and at every stage it is important to be clear about intentions and objectives , learning points , and how it is proposed to monitor the continuing success of the work in achieving these objectives . |
| 5 | Some felt that women lacked the cultural and political training necessary . |
| 6 | First , you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better . |
| 7 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 8 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 9 | As Blackstone put it : ‘ the law can not draw the line between different degrees of violence , and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage of it ; every man 's person being sacred , and no other having a right to meddle with it , in any the slightest manner . ’ |
| 10 | The riders then trot the four and a half miles to the start , a sandstone post one mile north of the old Kiplingcotes railway station . |
| 11 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 12 | Instead we have seen the emergence of the enabling authority , where the Town Hall finds ways of allowing the private and voluntary sectors to undertake the work that , for the last few decades , it has itself accomplished . |
| 13 | To recruit for profit you have only one option : recruit the best and pay the best |
| 14 | Unlike Piggott , Hannon is convinced Geisway will stay the one and a half miles at Epsom . |
| 15 | The notorious Atlantic trade in black Africans has received the extensive and controversial attention of historians , and that is as it should be , for it was a shameful traffic for which apologetics are quite out of order . |
| 16 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 17 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 18 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 19 | He insisted that SOC sovereignty must be respected " by maintaining the political and military status quo before general elections " . |
| 20 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 21 | Vitamin A has two main effects on the immune system — enhancement of non-specific immunity by maintaining the physical and biological integrity of epithelial tissue as the first barrier to infection , and increasing the effectiveness of the immune response to infection once the epithelial barrier has been breached . |
| 22 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 23 | So , when Kabye soldiers shot 26 anti-government Ewes , the Ewe chiefs of Lomé called their people to the sacred grove of Bé , to mourn the dead and plan revenge . |
| 24 | As with so many of the apparently unreal differences on the Left it was organizational rather than principled considerations which divided the Communist and non-Communist advocates of Unity . |
| 25 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 26 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 27 | Could you please expose the scandalous and tasteless way in which the Queen has announced the celebration of her accession 40 years ago ? |
| 28 | The information and recommendations contained in the report provide an excellent basis for building the flexible and responsive approach in relation to Europe which will be required over the next few years . |
| 29 | Even accidents are not necessarily purely environmental since ‘ accident-proneness ’ can have inherited components , and any accident involves the mental and emotional state of the victim at the time of the accident or just prior to it ( state of alertness , for instance ) , as well as the occurrence itself . |
| 30 | This involves the specific and limited activity of establishing and enforcing general rules of conduct which enable people to pursue their activities with the minimum degree of frustration . |