Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spend several days visiting all 15 sites which include eight of Northamptonshire 's U.S. air bases , memorials to the Groups who flew from them , nearby villages and churches which commemorate the airmen 's stay and pubs and towns along the route , haunts of WWII servicemen , or pick and choose those sights of particular interest . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , Roger , go for a walk in the grounds or try and pour more balm on Mandeville 's troubled spirit . |
| 3 | We need to examine the issues that bind and divide this country . |
| 4 | This has implications for the organisation as a whole : ‘ in the rhetoric of the FMI , departments are expected to move from structures based on centralised but separate responsibilities for finance , personnel , policy , executive operations and performance improvement towards structures that decentralise and cluster these responsibilities in ‘ businesses ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The trouble is that the traditions and symbols that embody and transmit these supposedly universal and perennial virtues usually turn out to be modern inventions ( Hobsbawm and Ranger , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | The result of these human tendencies is that the organization can build up workable interpretations from scraps that consolidate and inform other bits and pieces of data . |
| 7 | Some LEAs are in the process of major reorganization themselves , so that heads can be on the receiving end of a stream of directives and initiatives that contradict and countermand each other quicker than they can be assimilated . |
| 8 | PASS & CO. have over thirty years experience in prevention and preservation work in houses and are a member of the Professional Associations that control and regulate this work . |
| 9 | Since Renaissance times , clear glass has been fashioned into prisms , mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light . |
| 10 | What , in general , are the conditions that promote and obstruct creative teaching ? |
| 11 | There is a need for management skills that enable and accommodate participative decision-making , if the rhetoric of devolved responsibility is to be put into practice . |
| 12 | He has maintained that form and given that 40-plus is reckoned to be the minimum Test average for a truly great player , he should eventually retire — who knows when — with the record he wants . |
| 13 | Under the grill is a pan filled with lava stones that absorb and condense any dropping fat . |
| 14 | This chapter is therefore an invitation of sorts — an invitation to pause before plunging into the specific issues that follow and to consider some of the broader questions about the nature of education management . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Gain has cut an anticipated pact with Sun Microsystems Inc under which Sun will license Gain 's object oriented hypermedia training technology and develop and distribute interactive mulitmedia training software combining text , graphics , sound and animation . |
| 16 | These cells may be important modulators of platelet function in vivo through their ability to take up adenine nucleotides and synthesize and release regulatory prostaglandins ( Roos & Pfleger , 1972 ; Blackwell et al , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | 5.7.1 At the Tenant 's own expense to execute all works and provide and maintain all arrangements upon or in respect of the Premises or the use to which the Premises are being put that are required in order to comply with the requirements of any statute ( already or in the future to be passed ) or any government department , local authority other public or competent authority or court of competent jurisdiction regardless of whether such requirements are imposed on the lessor the lessee or the occupier |
| 18 | People do n't appreciate the material belongings that surround them , they just buy things and then chuck them away , they consume and consume and get more and more lost . |
| 19 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 20 | a wider range of vocabulary and , and , and a greater intellectual depth to it and you know I 'm , I , I , I actually almost feel tempted to get some of the files out and look and make sure I 'm not wrong if you , you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | Perhaps the Met 's problem lies in the present state of museum affairs , where the ideal curator combines impeccable scholarship and connoisseurship with a golden ability to raise acquisition funds and attract and nurture prospective donors . |
| 22 | ( 9 ) The partnership books are to be kept at the place of business of the partnership ( or the principal place , if there is more than one ) , and every partner may , when he thinks fit , have access to and inspect and copy any of them . |
| 23 | It will also look at the qualities needed in religious journalism , the potential audience for religious news , and compare and contrast religious coverage with other specialist coverage such as that of scientific and educational issues . |
| 24 | Take her to the kitchen and try and wash some of that glass out . ’ |
| 25 | If you have a really bad cellulite problem I suggest you follow the diet and try and take some sensible form of daily exercise even if it is only walking the dog for a couple of miles . |
| 26 | bu and when you it you have to stand in one place going like that and being , and if you touch anybody else and do that and try and get all the people . |
| 27 | Talk through each one , and try and get that sample good luck . |
| 28 | And then , suddenly practical , he said , ‘ When ye 've finished yer drink Ah suggest ye put Prescott away , turn yer light out and try and get some sleep . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na get another game and try and get some more . |
| 30 | It 's simply to make the letters bigger and try and get some sense of flow |