Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She bought a toilet seat to fit inside the big one and planned two visits each day to the toilet after meals or when Susan indicated that she wanted to pass a motion .
2 But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting .
3 This detailed knowledge of land formations should help geologists find mineral resources and evaluate geologic hazards such as earthquake zones .
4 Baronworth Investment Services ( 081–518 1218 ) , which prints a weekly update of best buys , runs a special deal with accountants who can not act as direct agents for bond issuers , and splits any commission 50/50 , but emphasises that it does also recommend bonds that pay no commission .
5 As will be explained later in this chapter , Parliament in the 1970s passed legislation which renders certain exemption clauses absolutely ineffective and renders many others ineffective unless they pass a test of fairness and reasonableness .
6 It is recommended that samples be stored at mean maximum temperature and mean maximum humidity appropriate to the market concerned .
7 Odour nuisance is sometimes also related to silage handling and storage and to processing and handling other feedstuffs such as swill boiling .
8 It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible .
9 This way of thinking is probably healthier than the one which sees evangelism as synonymous with an evangelistic crusade to fill up the existing churches ' buildings , and make existing churches stronger .
10 Please read it carefully and make any amendments necessary .
11 If a person is suffering from a fairly severe mental disorder and has close friends or relatives who sympathize , encourage early treatment and make full rehabilitation possible by providing a tolerant but secure home after hospitalization , then the person has a fair chance of ultimately coping with their illness without it handicapping their general performance in life too severely .
12 If we do that , we will save jobs for the miners and make this country richer as a result .
13 And secondly that in the interests of ‘ racial harmony ’ the government would itself discriminate against black people and make this discrimination legal .
14 Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process .
15 Doi emphasized the party 's policy of maintaining the alliance " for the time being " , but she stated that a Socialist-led coalition would " restrict " the country 's defence forces and suspend joint US-Japan military manoeuvres , with the intention of reducing and eventually removing all US bases from Japan .
16 In addition , as they go up through the school , pupils , whether visually handicapped or not , will increasingly be required to undertake independent study involving looking up references and using graphic information such as charts and diagrams .
17 Other substances can also be fermented including dietary proteins and host derived substrates such as pancreatic enzymes , mucis , and sloughed epithelial cells .
18 The Club tried , unsuccessfully , to buy 12 acres of land by the present 12th at £40 an acre , and sold several acres two years later at £50 an acre .
19 Spalding also suggests that the introduction of highly technologised industry , leading to high levels of unemployment , has weakened the labour movement and made political alliances necessary .
20 On this occasion , Berlin had a thick cloud cover that went down to 2,000 ft and made accurate bombing impossible .
21 With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority .
22 The post-war switch to Peter Drucker 's pension-fund socialism has altered the form in which ownership is separated from control — and made hostile bids likelier to succeed — but it has not changed the basic issue .
23 The government 's anti-religious campaign in connection with the Church 's alleged refusal to donate money and valuables for the Famine crippled the reputation of church aid and made some priests unwilling to become entangled in relief work .
24 Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study .
25 The promised deliberations probably resulted in the texts known as I and II Cnut , compiled by Wulfstan and given royal approval one Christmas at Winchester .
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27 He had conferred great material benefits , providing Bibles and building great basilicas such as St John Lateran and St Peter 's at Rome , the church of the Resurrection ( later called the Holy Sepulchre ) at Jerusalem , and that of the Nativity at Bethlehem .
28 They will also take up and re-lay loose floor coverings and pack and unpack fragile items such as glass and china .
29 The toothed whales ( Odontocetes ) have teeth and eat larger prey such as fish and squid .
30 They keep trying to kill and eat each other all the time .
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