Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In most cases the auditor is best placed to conduct a thorough and expeditious investigation and need not be torn between his duties to two masters , ’ he adds . |
| 2 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 3 | Peripheral position , the friction of distance , the lack of natural resources and an absence of low cultivable ground combine to provide a restricted and disadvantaged economic base . |
| 4 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 5 | Consequently , this chapter is not intended to provide a detailed and comprehensive documentation of the aids available in the UK . |
| 6 | These types are intended to provide a structured and secure environment for data addressed by many different programs . |
| 7 | Stephen Kunz , Technical Manager at Douglas Reyburn , has developed a new and unique method of dyeing yarns that contain many different colours . |
| 8 | The SGB Group — with 5,000 employees in various size units throughout Britain — has developed a fast and flexible computerised personnel records system used by personnel management . |
| 9 | It will be collected using tape-recorders , transcribed and analysed using a sequential and comparative method . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ This is the best possible news for everyone who wants to see a modern and competitive British economy succeeding in world markets in the 1990s . ’ |
| 11 | And Mr Howard Brown ’ ( Morse hesitated ) ‘ has given a full and fairly satisfactory account of his own whereabouts that afternoon , an account which has since been substantially corroborated . ’ |
| 12 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 13 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 14 | Let's say I 'm , I 'm going , I give you this question , I want to find a hundred and one times twenty six , right ? |
| 15 | Thus , while imitation tasks appear to provide a simple and direct way of assessing a child 's linguistic ability , the interpretation of children 's performance on imitation tasks is far from simple . |
| 16 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 17 | Moreover , entry into the EC has added a new and ever-expanding dimension to the Prime Minister 's homework , more than doubling it . |
| 18 | But the Hodgkin Quadrangle has added a handsome and valuable array of buildings to the college stock , and this report ends by expressing gratitude to those who have helped raise money for it , and by looking forward to the celebrations to mark its completion in the late spring of 1991 . |
| 19 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , like all Lloyd Webber 's works , it has undergone a painstaking and methodical process of gestation . |
| 21 | Both the founders sold out , and over the last decade Heidrick and Struggles has undergone a long and painful reorganisation . |
| 22 | For example , the reshaping of absolute monarchies into liberal constitutional regimes across much of Europe in Marx and Engels ' lifetimes reflected the imperatives of industrialization , since constitutionalism ( temporarily ) fostered stable capital accumulation , increased the rate of technical change , and helped to create a trained and compliant workforce . |
| 23 | Thames Valley Police says Mr. Clarke has seen a professional and efficient service . |
| 24 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 25 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 26 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
| 27 | The court heard that Lucy who is thirty three has suffered a serious and intractable illness for thirteen years . |
| 28 | I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides . |
| 29 | It has the speed , the stamina and the ability to think as it moves in for the kill and needs to out-think a twisting and turning rabbit . |
| 30 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |