Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let me look after and feed two piglets when I was a little girl and they were really friendly and affectionate . |
| 2 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 3 | The cost of and gain four bedrooms |
| 4 | Others , most notably James Meade , had taken the all important step of opening up the Keynesian model so as to take account of and explain international trade and capital flows . |
| 5 | ‘ We have achieved our two objectives — to encourage young chefs to look out for and use British ingredients in their recipes , and also to find a delicious selection of dishes to use in the British menu promotion later this year . ’ |
| 6 | Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church . |
| 7 | The Mecca Leisure Group has already set up its own travel company to cater for and organize this kind of holiday , and others are likely to follow suit . |
| 8 | And the first thing they do th they go to the wo er er bo the boss of the firm where they work for and want more money ! |
| 9 | First , we will need to look for and promote new kinds of stories . |
| 10 | From a school management point of view , valuable lessons about the nature of curriculum change , the processes involved and the need to plan for and provide adequate time and resource for all staff involved , have been learnt . |
| 11 | Rumour and gossip will spread and the employer may well find key staff and others so unsettled that they look for and find other jobs . |
| 12 | The first is to drill for and locate hot water ( having first mapped the geothermal gradient of the ground since conditions vary considerably ) . |
| 13 | This sort of research , which critics describe as ‘ playing God ’ , gets even more morally knotty when it comes to gene therapy , with its potential for monitoring and altering human genes to check for and eliminate hereditary diseases . |
| 14 | Thus do the injunctions feed into and exacerbate each other 's effects . |
| 15 | It is the firm 's requirement that anyone involved in corporate finance work ( including MAS work ) should be thoroughly familiar with and apply these standards . |
| 16 | Teams attempting to develop the service infrastructure undoubtedly try to liaise with and support voluntary groups , as the Nottinghamshire experience shows . |
| 17 | We must learn to see our anxiety symptoms as signals that we are under stress and learn to cope with and control these signals through our efforts and not simply mask or try to ignore them with tranquillizers . |
| 18 | If , for example , two perceptive functions are of equal weight , they tend to interfere with and jam each other . |
| 19 | Sickness absence is important as a measure of ill health ; as a measure of use of health services ; as a cause of lost productivity ; and as an indicator of an employee 's ability to cope with and maintain normal roles at work . |
| 20 | It was also noted that the more visitors were sought as resources for various parts of Christian Aid , the more the danger of eroding the original purpose : to work with and energise local supporters in the UK & Ireland alongside the Area Staff . |
| 21 | After release , viruses remain inactive until they come into contact with and infect another cell . |
| 22 | Judges might find it easier to sympathise with and understand such law-breakers in comparison to other types of criminal . |
| 23 | The teachers would prescribe the topics to be dealt with and give some account of what the class had done previously . |
| 24 | Robins and Cohen ( 1978 ) provide the sad and honest tale of an attempt to work with and politicise working-class youths in a working-class area of London . |
| 25 | take steps to adjust operational and strategic plans learn from and match other employers ' tactics |
| 26 | RAFA is grateful to BLESMAG for permission to quote from and reproduce this article . |
| 27 | In these critical times , we feel that WACC must learn from and accompany this process . |
| 28 | Those seats are more supportive than before and offer good height adjustment . |
| 29 | Many of the weapons systems that we use now are bigger than before and have longer ranges , and so on . |
| 30 | To come back in and get bloody aggro like that and it 's you know and it |