Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it … |
| 2 | In the front line Vlasov was noted for wearing the plainest of khaki uniforms without decorations or insignia ; this was presumably the gymnastiorka and sharovari . |
| 3 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflec-ting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 4 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflecting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 5 | It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society , but mostly the ministers and farmers , and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway , took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy , many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith . |
| 6 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 7 | Secondary objectives of the project are to develop an appropriate framework within the linkages between financial markets and dynamic efficiency gains can properly be understood ; to assess empirically the role and effectiveness of the market for corporate control in promoting dynamic efficiency gains ; and to provide a stronger basis for policy in the areas of stock market regulation , competition policy , and support for innovation in relation to these long term efficiency considerations . |
| 8 | Eventually the north and south works will be redeveloped as a business park , creating up to 5,000 new jobs . |
| 9 | Eventually the Mayor and Lady Tiara get the idea . |
| 10 | For registry staff to monitor effectively the accuracy and completeness of this operation requires detailed record-keeping and effortless access to data . |
| 11 | By mid-century , therefore , almost every European government was making efforts to control more effectively the recruitment and promotion of its diplomats . |
| 12 | Altogether the timing and pattern of this increase suggests that it is connected with an increase , shift or change in habits of a continental population , rather than the British . |
| 13 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 14 | But they dare n't take on the decisions and responsibility that would allow them to make their own alternatives , and to drop right out . |
| 15 | Anna , determined not to be able to reproach herself for not trying , took on the women and children . |
| 16 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |
| 17 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 18 | It is thus that ‘ national liberation ’ , or the breakaway movements , so often take on the colour and rhetoric of the group they see as dominating them . |
| 19 | Same list of icecream flavours hung on the wall and bowl of aniseed lollipops on the counter , same gilt baskets of croissants and racks like umbrella stands packed with tall loaves . |
| 20 | The people bounding around the room appeared to be transforming , taking on the shape and form of the animal masks they were wearing . |
| 21 | The man felt his melancholy enlarge as if — oddly — to take on the shape and texture of what was before him . |
| 22 | If this sounds too outrageous then the art department of the local secondary school might take on the design and painting of a mural as a project for older pupils with children from the primary school working as their apprentices . |
| 23 | Massage the skin and pass on the pressure and bingo ! |
| 24 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |
| 25 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 26 | Matthew Gloag & Son is to take on the marketing and sales of Bunnahabhain 12-Year-Old Islay Malt Scotch Whisky . |
| 27 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 28 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 29 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 30 | With the last of her dresses hanging in the wardrobe , undies neatly folded in the drawer , Lindsey switched on the radio and bedside lamp . |