Example sentences of "and [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operation Torch — the American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 — was the culmination of Allied attempts to exclude de Gaulle and to promote a viable alternative to Gaullism . |
| 2 | To raise awareness , understanding and esteem of the profession and to promote a positive image . |
| 3 | It represented a conscious effort to offset colonial influences and to promote a national culture which would reflect the new nation . |
| 4 | I sniffed it and whispered an obscene word to it , then I put on my coat and overshoes and walked out of the hotel . |
| 5 | Then he allows for the effects of a ‘ propagation mechanism ’ ( see section 5.1(a) ) by adding the lagged value of to equation ( 6.2 ) and attaching a positive coefficient to it , giving : |
| 6 | she then ‘ picks up ’ the open stitches ( a fine circular needle is wonderful for this ) , returns these stitches to the machine and knits a new rib ( going downwards ) or whatever is required . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , visiting the Company was an important occasion in Mary O'Dell 's calendar ; when her husband was the landlord , she always fussed over him beforehand , ironing his best shirt , starching the collar , sponging his blue serge suit and tucking a clean handkerchief into his top pocket . |
| 8 | Might any fear that disabled employment opportunities would collapse if the prop of the statutory quota were to be removed be assuaged by placing a statutory obligation upon employers to adopt and to implement an affirmative action plan ? |
| 9 | Its brief would be to devise , offer and supervise a comprehensive course devoted to the training of church musicians in all aspects of their craft . |
| 10 | Women wishing to return to work after maternity leave can telephone an agency which will vet , recruit and supervise a local childminder , and provide back-up cover if the main carer is ill . |
| 11 | They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time . |
| 12 | Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time , effort and paper . |
| 13 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 14 | Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks . |
| 15 | During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China . |
| 16 | And so , when faced with something he or she feels unsure about , they seek security from the more confident ( and usually more dominant ) dog , which has been allowed to learn independence and develop a one-to-one relationship with the owner . |
| 17 | A major part of the Conservative agenda has been to undermine socialism and develop a contemporary form of laissez-faire market economics , to move Britain from a culture of dependency to the enterprise culture . |
| 18 | Although there was a great deal of debate about education after 1944 , much of it up to 1951 focused on the eradication of class differences , not gender differences , in an endeavour to build a more buoyant economy and develop a substantial welfare state . |
| 19 | The third pressure comes from the push by Meekatharra Minerals to exploit the very rich deposits of lignite in Ballymoney and develop a private sector power station . |
| 20 | In order to bring about sustained growth , the Government will have to reverse the cuts that they have made in the training budget and develop a long-term programme to increase the quantity and quality of skills throughout British industry . |
| 21 | Ramsay was shrewd enough to capitalise on his native gifts and develop a new style . |
| 22 | Speaking at the Institute of Strategic Studies in London , he suggested that the 12 EC member countries should make a mutual defence pledge ( as in the Brussels Treaty of the Western European Union — WEU — comprising all EC members except Denmark , Greece and Ireland ) and develop a common policy on weapons research and production . |
| 23 | Secondly , their underrating of the ‘ caesaristic ’ elements of Hitler 's mass charismatic base meant that , far from providing a new foundation for the power of the traditional élites , as they had hoped , the plebiscitary acclamation of the Führer enabled Hitler 's own power to detach itself from its likely shackles and develop a high degree of relative autonomy , at the same time reducing former dominant groups like the army from ‘ power-élites ’ proper to merely ‘ functional élites ’ , unable to check Hitler himself and the ‘ wild men ’ of the Nazi Movement , even when wishing to do so . |
| 24 | For these and other linguistic and cultural reasons it is relatively easy for the speaker of one Bantu language to learn another and develop a high level of competence in it . |
| 25 | For instance , Diggle et al. ( 1990 ) assess the hypothesis that cancer of the larynx is associated with proximity to a now-closed incinerator and develop a statistical model from the theory of spatial point processes to test this . |
| 26 | ‘ British Gas asked for a wide-ranging review in order to clarify our regulatory environment and develop a clear way ahead for the future . |
| 27 | And develop a persuasive argument . |
| 28 | Most writers go through a series of fumbling stages , groping for ideas , before they manage to sort them out and develop an organized plan . |
| 29 | As we have seen , although positivist criminologists were often shy of associating themselves with specific corrective programmes , they saw crime as pathological and shared a general consensus in favour of a broadly rehabilitative approach to ridding ourselves of it . |
| 30 | I got off the Air India jet spitting betel nut and nursing a swollen hand . |