Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Princess Diana put two weeks of torment behind her yesterday … and beamed this smile of relief . |
| 2 | A significant focus for the controversy was the theatre , which , like the transvestite , was seen both to epitomize and to promote contemporary forces of disruption in and through its involvement with cross-dressing . |
| 3 | In the light of the above problems of attitudinal and technical support in the environment where the most highly trained member of the health team is rejected by colleagues but appreciated very much by the community members ( Robertson , 1988 ) , would it be realistic for her/him to support and supervise another category of health worker based in the community ( VHW/TBA ) ? |
| 4 | The Tibetan intuitively spun on his heel , raising his arm as if to throw a stone and bellowing great roars of abuse . |
| 5 | They explore one side of their personality and develop one aspect of their skills with a single-mindedness which has obvious disadvantages . |
| 6 | It was her research that showed how close we are in evolutionary terms to the apes : how they communicate with each other , use tools ( hitherto thought to be a strictly human activity ) and develop lifelong bonds of family and friendship . |
| 7 | 17.14 During the early years of the secondary school , and as they grow into adolescence , pupils will increasingly be able to take a more objective view and develop greater understanding of the writing process . |
| 8 | If they are frail or disabled and housebound they often become members of the tea-toast-and-tinned-soup brigade , and develop various kinds of vitamin-deficiency diseases . |
| 9 | Graham began climbing with the Edinburgh JMCS and shared first ascents of significant Scottish routes like Parallel B Gully , Lochnager ( 1958 ) , Smith 's gully on Creag Meaghaidh ( 1959 ) and Vanishing Gully on Ben Nevis ( 1961 ) . |
| 10 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 11 | He has expanded police powers , limited the formation of new parties , marginalised the old opposition and criminalised some types of political dissent . |
| 12 | A callous gunman who shot a German tourist dead and then shot and stabbed other members of the family has been jailed for life . |
| 13 | James Boyce , the Rutherglen man who murdered a German tourist in Stranraer , then shot and stabbed other members of the man 's family , has been jailed for life . |
| 14 | Each region offers different opportunities and imposes different kinds of restriction on its inhabitants . |
| 15 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 16 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 17 | Here many problems arise , for so many ethnic boats are now ruined by heavy outboard motors which weight the air with the smell of diesel fumes , and dispel any feeling of paradise . |
| 18 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 19 | Add and subtract small sums of money without a calculator . |
| 20 | The Green Party fielded 256 candidates , and averaged 1.3 percent of the vote . |
| 21 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 22 | It is not a formal legal treatise ; it is intended to help the reader 's awareness of legal issues and to stimulate further study of the subject as necessary . |
| 23 | Finally , they suggest the establishment of a Standing Royal Commission on Citizenship , or a chartered institution or charitable trust that would have specific responsibility for research into citizenship and to stimulate public discussion of it . |
| 24 | Click on the up arrow of the palette box to select 2 into the current colour box and repeat this process of selecting the shade for this colour . |
| 25 | I love aspects of it and hate other aspects of it . |
| 26 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 27 | University undergraduates were presented with words in a two-field tachistoscope and asked ten questions of each type : 1 ) is there a word present ; 2 ) is it printed in capital letters ; 3 ) does it rhyme with … ; and 4 ) is it a member of the category … with five leading to a ‘ Yes ’ and five leading to a ‘ No ’ response . |
| 28 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 29 | Other places associated with Ceauşescu 's career , like the prisons at Doftana or Caransebes , were made into shrines to his onward march through life and became regular centres of his cult . |
| 30 | In 1946 he was promoted to senior principal scientific officer and became assistant director of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment , subsequently becoming director . |