Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals . |
| 2 | For individuals requiring income , an investment in convertibles can bring a higher return than an investment in equities and still give scope for some capital appreciation . |
| 3 | I 'm trying not to scratch , I do n't use perfumed soaps and always wear cotton underwear . |
| 4 | Research has proved that we can eat more carbohydrate calories than fat calories and still lose weight ! |
| 5 | The foregoing techniques for measuring mechanical properties are transient or non periodic methods and typically cover time intervals of up to 10 6 s . |
| 6 | Dressed in tweeds and constantly pipe smoking , his imagination often ran away with him . |
| 7 | Moreover , parasitoids may also feed at the nectaries and then infect insect larvae by oviposition thereafter and , in Inga , this seems effective in control at altitudes where ants are uncommon . |
| 8 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 9 | Q I am taking a course of antibiotics and continually take anti-histamine tablets . |
| 10 | Some types of venom damage the walls of blood vessels and also prevent blood from clotting . |
| 11 | To the immune systems of the animals that it may infect , the resultant mutant virus will look as if it is rabies and so will trigger antibodies and generally stimulate immunity against the disease . |
| 12 | The Commission continued during this period with its efforts to secure uniform rates of value added tax ( VAT ) and excise duties within the EC ( see pp. 36153 ; 36493 ) , particularly in the light of the proposed abolition of border controls which , it felt , could encourage cross-border shopping in low-rate countries and thus perpetuate market imbalances . |
| 13 | As Lall ( 1985 ) and others have noted , some developing countries have been able to create ‘ localised technical advances ’ that emphasise their relatively greater knowledge of low-wage countries and so establish advantage in neighbouring markets . |
| 14 | Make a well in the dry ingredients and gradually add butter and sugar mixture . |
| 15 | Anorexics , who will use all manner of subterfuge to avoid eating , often become so thin that they lose their monthly periods and consequently have difficulty becoming pregnant . |
| 16 | I had a bike and could pedal down to Middleton in Teesdale , meet Marie , take her to the pictures — not the best seats mind — then buy us both fish and chips and still have change out of that two bob . |
| 17 | High Court judges and above hold office during good behaviour until retirement , but the Courts Act 1971 , following earlier legislation , gives to the Lord Chancellor a power , seldom used , to remove Circuit judges for ‘ misbehaviour or incapacity ’ . |
| 18 | In simpler ways , libraries may deliberately remove certain reference works from their regular places on the shelves and then monitor reader reactions . |
| 19 | Designs incorporating fish , birds , bulls , people , gods , goddesses , schematized buildings of various kinds , ships , and elaborate ritual scenes were carved into an astonishing range of materials : ivory , bone , agate , carnelian , haematite , jasper , chalcedony , lapis lazuli and even rock crystal , amethyst and obsidian . |
| 20 | The latter accepts it : law as integrity supposes that people have legal right — rights that follow from past decisions of political institutions and therefore license coercion — that go beyond the explicit extension of political practices conceived as conventions . |
| 21 | This debate has its origins in Laski 's deprecation of the narrow social basis of recruitment into the higher civil service in Britain , making it impossible for such people to understand working-class problems ( Laski 1938 ) ; and Kingsley 's prediction that an unrepresentative bureaucracy would block radical reformist policies and therefore threaten democracy ( Kingsley 1944 ) . |
| 22 | I 'm beginning to feel that direct action is the only way forward like Earth First , who in Canada lie down in front of loggers and generally sabotage development . |
| 23 | Research has shown that significant changes in the levels of these particular vitamins can alter those reactions and thereby affect energy and well-being . |
| 24 | The trouble broke out when other party leaders voted to change the rules and thus enable delegation members to elect their chairmen ( as committee members have long been able to do ) . |
| 25 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 26 | If the NTB is removed , the firm could increase exports and thereby expand output to Q2 which would reduce price to P2 . |
| 27 | These can be very painful at times and also cause photophobia and a deficiency in the vision . |
| 28 | Hard bith her , seen the Nun 's Story twenty seven times and never grett wance … you mibbe need merr Mivvis … |
| 29 | It is our aim , with constant reminders from ( our safety officer and leading light of the safety committee ) to be vigilant at all times and constantly put safety and accident prevention in the forefront of employees minds . |
| 30 | You can walk for hours and never see daylight , under the Paris Opera House . |