Example sentences of "[vb infin] and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Present immigrants would stay and gradually acquire citizenship once fully integrated .
2 Secondly , a non-porphyrin ligand would be easier to chemically modify and so permit study of a greater range of ligand structural variations .
3 Discussion with other members of the group can prove most helpful in identifying areas where conflict may arise and thus provide guidance in handling such situations .
4 The second principle : ‘ the system for quality is prevention ’ involves considering where errors could occur and then taking action to prevent them .
5 Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously ; he also turned down Balcarres 's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year .
6 And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism .
7 Legislation has been used to thwart library censorship ( as in the News International dispute ) , and legislation has been implemented which as a consequence may encourage and even legitimize library censorship ( as with Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 ) .
8 This proclamation was to be read out in towns and other places without delay , in the presence of some ‘ good religious ’ who could read and so bear witness to its authenticity .
9 There are some scavengers that do not hunt and rarely consume meat .
10 She would rest and not have dinner nor , regrettably , attend the evening performance , at which I was to read .
11 I am confident that when he reaches his teens he will challenge and possibly reject religion as he will earlier have rejected his other fantasies .
12 He ordered her downstairs , threatened to kill her year-old baby if she did not obey and then demanded money , which she gave him .
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