Example sentences of "and [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the defence of this social unit that set many of the boundaries to the debates and limited the eventual legislative reform . |
| 2 | Barbarossa 's declared and overall intention was to purify , restore and develop the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 3 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 4 | Visitors are welcome to milk the cows and pat the other friendly animals — children love it . |
| 5 | He put the bottle on the low table and laid the old horn-handled corkscrew down beside it , a patient sacrifice to the economies that her careless pregnancy necessitated . |
| 6 | In order to see what other pronunciation problems there may be , one also needs to study and compare the various individual phonemes of the two languages and see what variants they have . |
| 7 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 8 | ‘ Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past , threatens the future , and renders the present inaccessible ’ , she has written . |
| 9 | The PPD merged with the small Party for New Democratic Alliance in April , and became the New Democratic Party [ see p. 38147 ] . |
| 10 | One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia . |
| 11 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 12 | He was one of the first proponents of detente towards eastern Europe and became the first Western head of government to receive Arab leaders such as Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Col. Kadhafi of Libya . |
| 13 | , and became the first lay students of Ushaw College , the Northern Catholic seminary , to train for ministry . |
| 14 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 15 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 16 | Sufism , the mysticism of Islam , was extremely influential in the Muslim world and became the dominant Islamic piety in many areas of the empire until the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | As yesterday 's solidly-argued report to the Scottish Office by a Glasgow University team demonstrates , procedures in social work and housing departments for identifying , assessing and helping the young homeless were drawn up when the problem was much smaller than it is now . |
| 18 | The doves gave up strutting and whitening the old ping-pong table and set off , flapping busily towards the purple hillside . |
| 19 | The perceptive adult can help him to identify some of these properties and introduce the appropriate mathematical vocabulary . |
| 20 | The long-term problem for this species is the creeping infiltration of marginal agriculture taking over and fragmenting the remaining suitable habitat for this species . |
| 21 | The egg then germinates while still attached to the parent plant and produces the next asexual generation — a thin stem with , at its tip , a hollow capsule . |
| 22 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 23 | Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones . |
| 24 | There are instructions to move strings , to compare them , and to perform the usual logical operations . |
| 25 | What we shall do instead is to restrict the definition to one selected sentence type which happens to work , namely , that represented by the schema A is f(X) , where f(X) is an indefinite expression , and represents the minimum syntactic elaboration of a lexical item X for it to function as a complement of the verb to be . |
| 26 | He is Stanley Leslie Hale of Buriton , and represents the Revolutionary Christian Communist Party . |
| 27 | This new strain ( KT1026 ) has been satisfactorily evaluated in Australia and represents the first commercial release of a genetically engineered microorganism for biocontrol . |
| 28 | For all his earlier squeamishness , Bloxham had done well , returning Dowd 's guts into the bowel of the carcass , and mummifying the whole sorry slab in plastic and tape . |
| 29 | People who want to open more shops complain that it is becoming ever harder , and more expensive , to find and bribe the correct official responsible for allocating premises . |
| 30 | Detecting and quantifying the innate personal attributes of the effective nurse has puzzled recruiters for many years . |