Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Postojna the roads became increasingly worse , twisting and turning as we went through at Janene on the Croatian border where it was explained that we would have to pay a reduced fee ( as we were carrying humanitarian goods ) of 13DM in order to acquire the appropriate papers to allow us to enter Croatia . |
| 2 | It is when we do not act and behave as Jesus ' followers that adultery can take place , followed by legal proceedings for divorce . |
| 3 | ‘ They can not be considered only with respect to their potential ability to reduce accidents , but must be designed and evaluated while taking into account their impact on other factors capable of improving people 's ‘ feeling ’ towards the area they live in : practicability ( access , parking , orientation , etc. ) , satisfaction of basic needs of the residents ( communication , rest , play , pleasantness of the environment , etc. ) and avoidance of nuisances . ’ |
| 4 | to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that the article is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risks to health when properly used ; |
| 5 | They are required to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that any plant ( machinery , equipment or appliance ) is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risk to health . |
| 6 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 7 | Pipelines must be fitted so as to maintain continuous flow at turbulence producing levels with valves , glands , seals , junctions and outlets so designed and positioned as to avoid causing ‘ traps ’ where food deposits can accumulate or cleaning solutions can stagnate . |
| 8 | I will illustrate this by looking , firstly , at the claim that some form of market can legitimate the power of corporate managers , and , secondly , at the argument that the internal structure of the company can be so designed and used as to legitimate corporate managerial power . |
| 9 | Their cheeks were blanched and drawn as the party set out in the driving rain , armed with ropes and fresh lanterns . |
| 10 | They found that futures tended to be overpriced , that the average size of the mispricing tended to fall over time , and that the absolute size of the mispricing declined as maturity approached and increased as the dividend yield increased . |
| 11 | While I was waiting for him , an assistant approached and asked if she could help . |
| 12 | They find it very difficult to get into Torbay to try and trade cos it 's very , I mean it 's another hour on the trip really is n't it ? |
| 13 | By the time they were on their way to the airport , Fabia had a note of Vendelin Gajdusek 's address and was racking her brains to try and think if there was anything else she needed to know . |
| 14 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 15 | In the years that followed endless analyses were made to try and determine whether Penkovsky had really been what he seemed . |
| 16 | that is a danger , what we have to try and remember although it 's no great comfort to you , is that overall , the prize is tremendous |
| 17 | Confronted with such a situation , with no sure indication as to how , if at all , a satisfactory clarification of particular identity might be found , we might be tempted to think that the best course to follow is to try and see if we can make do without relying on this awkward and intractable concept . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you mind if I followed you back — just to try and see if anybody else is trying to ? |
| 19 | Er , er so I I I 'm prepared to try and see if if we can meet the anxieties or at least some of them . |
| 20 | to try and see if we can get some sort of dance group in to get that culture over . |
| 21 | Armstrong started up first go and I dialled around the local radio stations to try and catch if anyone was doing anything stupid on the roads . |
| 22 | Besides , he 'd never expect her to try and escape because he thought her ankle too painful to walk on . |
| 23 | They jerked and spasmed when they should have Red Wedged and Fred Perried . |
| 24 | They shouted and roared as those whom they saw as traitors sped by . |
| 25 | He shouted and swore when Lennie carried a dead mouse in his pocket pet and he gave Lennie a very hard time when Lennie said that he like ketchup on his beans . |
| 26 | It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light . |
| 27 | Many parts of them were distorted and crushed until most traces of life in them were obliterated . |
| 28 | It should also be noted that a covenant limiting hours of access may not limit hours of use of the demised property , provided that the tenant arrives before permitted hours cease and leaves after they recommence . |
| 29 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 30 | In other words they appear and disappear as they do because they are controlled by a particular sedimentary facies . |