Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 2 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 3 | The Soviet view of neutralisation in the 1970s and 1980s has evolved from the legalistic and Eurocentric notion of neutralisation which Eastern and Western statesmen held in common in earlier decades and sought to apply to particular disputes . |
| 4 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 5 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 6 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 7 | Oh and got to park in main parking lot . |
| 8 | Initially the examiner , who has read a file detailing the main points of the complaint , but inevitably does not have the full story ( hence the reason for the enquiry ) , turns up unannounced at the company 's premises ( which are not always easy to find ) and has to get past well-meaning but defensive receptionists and secretaries without revealing the purpose of the visit . |
| 9 | And , of course , she is a director of Walter Lassally Productions and has to disappear to exotic places occasionally . |
| 10 | Chapter 4 gives a review of things which teachers can do , in the face of difficult circumstances , to preserve their equanimity , and to try to keep on good form . |
| 11 | They believe he 's carried out several sex attacks in one town , and want to talk to other victims who may have been too scared to come forward . |
| 12 | While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub . |
| 13 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 14 | More generally , if living things did n't work actively to prevent it , they would eventually merge into their surroundings , and cease to exist as autonomous beings . |
| 15 | They will lease the first team pitch and clubhouse back from the buyers next season and expect to move to new premises in 1993 . |
| 16 | NEC Corp is forecasting unconsolidated net profit of $430m in the fiscal year just started , up from an estimated $344m for the fiscal 1993 just ended ; the company sees strong demand for semiconductors in the US and Southeast Asia , and looks to launch of new personal computers , and domestic economic recovery around this summer following the government 's economic package , including the expected supplementary budget , NEC said . |
| 17 | In an address on March 9 Soglo paid tribute to Kerekou for accepting the political reforms , and promised to work towards consolidating democracy . |
| 18 | We agreed to these conditions , and tried to think of salacious things for Ted to tell Jean . |
| 19 | Their heavyweight glass-fibre base is impregnated and coated with bitumen , surfaced with natural mineral coloured granules , and cut to look like traditional slates . |
| 20 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 21 | Chorus has a similar deal with Thomson CSF for the Inmos transputer , and plans to partner with other chip manufacturers . |
| 22 | Chorus has a similar deal with Thomson CSF SA for the Inmos Transputer , and plans to team with other chip manufacturers . |
| 23 | One loch looks very much like any other and some are not even marked on the 1:50,000 map , so always be properly clad and prepared to cope with fickle weather conditions , before setting out . |
| 24 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 25 | Where a block grant has been paid in the past , the Department will continue to do so unless or until an alternative arrangement is reached with the provider , and undertakes to pay for new individual placements from 1st April 1993 at not less than the DSS rate . |
| 26 | In return the M-19 guerrillas would be amnestied and allowed to return to civilian life . |
| 27 | To assess binding activity , LC stained with biotin-conjugated M5/114 and streptavidin-RED613 ( Gibco BRL ) were suspended in calcium-containing HBSS , 1% BSA , and allowed to adhere to confluent fibroblast or KC monolayers in 24-well culture plates 6x10 4 LC in 1ml per well ( d ) or 5x10 4 LC in 0.2ml per well ( e ) ) . |
| 28 | If he is successful he is awarded a coloured sash and allowed to progress to advanced training sections . |
| 29 | MIP-1 β ( 1:100 ) , control supernatant from SF9 cells infected with wild-type baculovirus ( 1:100 ) , GRO/MGSA ( 10ngml -1 ; from J.J. Oppenheim ) , or RANTES ( 10ngml -1 ; from J. J. Oppenheim ) were added to the wells and allowed to bind to plastic-immobilized heparin-BSA at 37°C for 60min . |
| 30 | In a case where a principal instructs as selling agent for his property or goods a person who to his knowledge acts and intends to act for other principals selling property or goods of the same description , the terms to be implied into such agency contract must differ from those to be implied where an agent is not carrying on such general agency business . |