Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , it became very much easier for a minister to brush aside any interrogation , since not only was the original purpose of the question soon left behind , but also the frontbenches have tended to intervene to try and score broader party points to which the minister in turn makes the usual party retort . |
| 2 | In the international class today Ulster riders will be going out on cross country to try and gain higher placings . |
| 3 | But if either you or your partner have had previous sexual partners , even in a long-term relationship , you should discuss and practise safer sex . |
| 4 | In the course of solving such problems we will frequently wish to alter upper bounds and to impose and alter lower bounds on variables . |
| 5 | In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations . |
| 6 | They replace and revoke earlier Regulations ( SI 1970/992 ) which provided for exemption from s 716 of the CA 1985 in relation to engineers recognised as chartered engineers by the Engineering Council 's predecessor , the Council of Engineering Institutions . |
| 7 | I am delighted to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that our policy on capital expenditure is to encourage and enable higher education institutions to invest , as they need to do , to accommodate the dramatic increase in student numbers as well as provide facilities for the research of remarkable quality which takes place in so many of our universities . |
| 8 | Through a detailed analysis of contraception , abortion , pregnancy and childbirth , infertility treatment and the menopause they have shown how medicine reinforces and sustains wider structures of male domination over women , through the family and the state . |
| 9 | Indeed , Goldsmith argues that on finance , ‘ the Scottish Office has been the pioneer for the Imperial core , seeking and using greater controls over local government ’ than was the case in England ( 1986 , p. 168 ) . |
| 10 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 11 | Here , the two people meet and each takes ten minutes to reflect on and verbalise the achievements that they have made and identify further needs . |
| 12 | Former civilisations have regarded and treated older people in very different ways . |
| 13 | Two zipped and flapped lower pockets are complemented by a third map-pocket over the left chest . |
| 14 | The feeling of helplessness then continues to overshadow and influence later relationships . |
| 15 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 16 | The failure to properly research and understand older consumers is illustrated by several attempts to introduce promotions based on the American experience of discount-trading linked to a magazine . |
| 17 | Compared to open-reel tape machines they are also easier to load and store and provide better protection for the tape . |
| 18 | In a practical sense , he encouraged and demanded higher standards of literacy from his churchmen and governors , and issued various proclamations condemning their ignorance of Latin . |
| 19 | Designing and producing better pages |
| 20 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 21 | Good subjects are large cichlids or catfish , since the camera needs to be further away to capture the whole fish , making it easier to focus and giving greater depth of field . |
| 22 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 23 | Now contrast and compare Sucrier Velours with its simple synths , brushed drums and sax , or Sultry Sunset , with Harle and Richard Rodney Bennett on piano ( low-key Bennett also shares arranger 's credits on three of the ten tracks here ) : successful assimilations of the Ellington sprit , without being too close to the original . |
| 24 | Pupils can be encouraged to use a picture as evidence and to deduce and infer further things from what they see . |
| 25 | The demonstrators ' tactic of walking into the police lines , while it was a principled assertion of their right to march , invited the violent response that followed and made further violence much more likely . |
| 26 | their value as sources of human enrichment should be recognised and assigned greater importance ; and |
| 27 | Without this provision , producers would constantly have to recall and modify older products every time they introduced a safety improvement . |
| 28 | What is required is a balance where basic and applied research co-exist and catalyse further developments . |
| 29 | ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back . |
| 30 | The male is more strongly marked and has larger pectoral fins , with the first ray formed into a hard , bony spine edged with fine barbs . |