Example sentences of "and [verb] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most significant of these changes occurred more in the institutions and managerial frameworks in which ‘ art ’ was produced and consumed than in the studios . |
| 2 | We apologise for having used old fashioned terminology in misnaming Enterococcus faecalis as Streptococcus faecalis , but the apparent redesignation of the organism as Gram negative was not intentional and arose because of the eradication of one too many ‘ organisms ’ from the text , which should read : ‘ Important indications for this category include infections due to Gram negative organisms ; organisms , such as Enterococcus faecalis , causing infective endocarditis ; osteomyelitis ; and infections of vascular grafts . ’ |
| 3 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 4 | ‘ They had developed some particularly good methodologies on key performance measurement that they had previously tried to apply to the US insurance industry , and failed because of the lack of diversification into defined activities in the US . |
| 5 | This lovely supple rubber here is exactly the same supple rubber here at one time but now it 's gone all hard and denatured because of the chemicals . |
| 6 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 7 | If the husband did not fulfil his obligation to maintain , then on balance it was considered preferable for the wife to go out and earn than for the whole family to become chargeable to the Poor Law . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks later , on October 13 1948 , the State Department 's secret circular instruction ‘ Pattern of Soviet Policy in Far-East and South-East Asia ’ afforded a general conspectus which , apart from assuming boundless and malevolent Soviet intentions , also inferred a single goal ‘ to ensure Soviet control being as surely installed and predominate as in the satellite countries behind the Iron Curtain ’ . |
| 9 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 10 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 11 | And I think central government needs to look at the way in which inner cities are being constantly run down and erm problems highlighted and aggravated because of the circumstances . |
| 12 | An hour later every room was spick and span except for the bedroom Penry was using . |
| 13 | Now in order to understand this and not to misunderstand terms , we 've got to unders the first thing we have to understand is what Darwin 's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is all about and the problem with this , and in some ways this is analogous to the problem with Freud , and I 'll be talking about this later , is that er when Darwin put forward his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection in eighteen fifty nine it was confused and misunderstood because of the ideas of other people like Herbert Spencer and the so-called Social Darwinists , who coined slogans like , for example , survival of the fittest . |
| 14 | Thus corporate officials are both mystified as to their own crime , and misdirected as to the distribution of crime in general . |
| 15 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 16 | This has to be addressed to the company 's members and to state whether in the auditors ' opinion the annual accounts have been properly prepared in accordance with the Act and , in particular , whether they give a true and fair view . |
| 17 | New staff , on joining , should be acquainted with fire exit routes and instructed as to the various alternative exits available should smoke , fire or collapse or stocks or racking render normally used routes impossible . |
| 18 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 19 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 20 | The other , frightened of a similar propensity , consciously abhors what becomes so tedious , but unconsciously fuels the fury and whine because of the need to keep in touch with the repudiated blaming , whining self . |
| 21 | Its focus is not so much on the individuals who work and produce as on the production process , and this rather impersonal and abstract approach makes it difficult or even unnecessary to look for any exclusion of women , although this occurs . |
| 22 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |
| 23 | Add to the flour and continue as in the original recipe . |
| 24 | We would review with lawyers the sale and purchase agreement and advise as to the reasonableness of clauses where required ; we will also attend where necessary the drafting meetings and final completion meetings . |
| 25 | The townspeople are hoping the fair will quietly fade away and die because of the usual clashes between the locals and the travellers . |
| 26 | Partnerships need to be formally agreed , the details of the scheme set out as a contract managed by an executive group , and monitored as to the effectiveness . |
| 27 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 28 | He ordered a carafe of wine and inquired as to the whereabouts of his braised chop . |
| 29 | But topics of discourse are constituted as topics of discourse in certain acts of thought ; they are targets of certain thought-experiences and can not be identified , analysed and discussed except in the context of such experiences . |
| 30 | The alternatives are either up to 25% additional time ( because some people take longer to read and write because of the specific difficulty ) or the use of an emendatory writer or whatever the psychologist may recommend . |