Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , dear , fathers and sons come to resemble each other , do n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | This might , he appreciated , mean putting sections of the house ‘ under wraps ’ , but would I bring all my experience and expertise to bear to ensure such losses were kept to a minimum ? |
| 3 | We were not convinced , however , that his plan to reintroduce small unitary authorities would foster the vision and expertise needed to meet this challenge . |
| 4 | Three rounds of voting in February and March failed to elect any of the candidates [ see p. 37264 ] , so that the task fell to the new parliament which emerged from the April 8 general election . |
| 5 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 6 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 7 | And Cardiff seemed to hear that unspoken question again : |
| 8 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 9 | The protest came out weakly and Isabel strove to inject some firmness into her voice . |
| 10 | Despite the rhetorical overkill , terms like ‘ contamination ’ , ‘ infection ’ , ‘ implosion ’ and ‘ intertextuality ’ give a more vivid , because more visceral , sense of how the sheer proliferation and reach of new communication channels and technologies work to make all boundaries permeable . |
| 11 | While the words may have played little part in Nationalist propaganda , and the ideas they connoted have been uncongenial to many Catholics and erstwhile liberal monarchists within the Nationalist camp , nevertheless the prominence of the Falange and the involvement of Italy and Germany sufficed to satisfy most foreign observers , and by no means only those on the left , that the Spanish rebels were indeed ‘ fascists ’ . |
| 12 | It is a borderland concept between the mental and the physical , and Freud wants to express this when he speaks of an instinct arising as an impulse within the organism , not as a stimulus from without . |
| 13 | Owners of hotels , guest houses , caravan parks and shops have to make most of their profit in a very short time . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 15 | Venetian Romanesque architecture was dominated by the city 's eastern contacts and Byzantium continued to have more influence than Lombardy or Pisa . |
| 16 | At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact . |
| 17 | The arrogant princess refused to talk in English and Corbett had to use all his skill in French to conduct a conversation whilst ensuring he did not give offence . |
| 18 | IMPROVEMENTS However in the NorthEast , Tyneside and Wearside appeared to contain most of the blackspots while the smaller towns and rural areas showed marked improvements . |
| 19 | Willie and Zach managed to see each other every day as well as weekends and odd evenings and they , the twins and George would walk and play in the fields together . |
| 20 | The Audi slammed into the side of the Volvo and Donna had to use all her strength to keep control of the car . |
| 21 | A careful analysis needs to be made of the work of the Sixth Form Art students , ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level , and methods considered to improve this course . |
| 22 | If the rarity of jade and the distances from which men were prepared to obtain supplies were one indication of the high regard in which the material was held by certain peoples , the investment in time and labour needed to shape this hard material to social needs was even more eloquent of its honorific status . |
| 23 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
| 24 | The fact is , he argues , that parliamentary scrutiny in Italy and France is inadequate compared to that in Britain and Denmark , and federalism seeks to superimpose these inadequate and alien procedures upon our political system . |
| 25 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 26 | There were only three other black kids at Repton at the time and Hope had to withstand some daunting reactions to his presence at the club in the East End of London . |
| 27 | And Katherine began to like this young woman who swirled gracefully in front of the mirror . |
| 28 | Most of the cancelled parts , of which there were two , were returned , and Gould arranged to give those subscribers the first part of the new series in lieu . |
| 29 | It 's where the Turks are strong and England have to take that away from them . |
| 30 | Since the Japanese and Taiwanese refused to supply any data on the albacore drift-net fishery , it was hardly surprising that no information on incidental dolphin catches had come to light . |