Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
2 | On the same day two of Spain 's leading private electricity companies ( Iberduero SA and Hidroeléctrica Española SA ) announced plans to merge to compete with the state-owned ENDESA ( Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA ) , in a move welcomed by the government which was aiming to reorganize the power industry and planned to introduce a new national energy plan by the end of July . |
3 | Elderly people , with those in later middle age , are more likely to be shocked or outraged by sexual practices which they consider undesirable — and tend to see a wider range of sexual practices as such . |
4 | In Russia , any attempt to refuse this right would immediately aid the bourgeoisie of each nationality and tend to push the local working class into its arms . |
5 | These are usually encrusting species , and tend to have a convoluted and ridged polypary , with far fewer individual polyps than Sarcophytum . |
6 | However , it is unfortunately true that many unconventional forms of service can be relatively inconvenient for users and tend to have a romantic , if empirically unsound , appeal . |
7 | Both have washed rinds and a firm texture and tend to have the washed rind garage-cheese smell , as described in the section on soft cheeses ( p69 ) . |
8 | Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm . |
9 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |
10 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
11 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0·5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
12 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0.5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
13 | For example , in the case of starting up a machine at a control panel the operator will be given the instructions and asked to provide a verbal commentary as he actuates the various controls and checks the various indications , this is a ‘ talk through ’ . |
14 | Informal counselling implies that group members are not seated and asked to discuss a particular topic or situation . |
15 | What is less often recognized is that it was distinctly innovatory , marking important breaks with earlier theories of female sexuality and helping to generate an intellectual climate favourable to regulationism . |
16 | Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record . |
17 | We will use Britain 's six-month tenure of the Presidency of the Community 's Council of Ministers to make a start on the real tasks that lie ahead : building a prosperous and integrated economy ; correcting the democratic deficit , making Europe work for its citizens , not its institutions ; widening the Community 's membership ; and helping to create a peaceful and stable new world order . |
18 | There are many signs that although the new tools for analysis are not simple ones , they are offering exciting insights into the problems of matching readers to texts , and helping to produce a deeper response and more effective learning . |
19 | The ‘ air diaphragm ’ of this port has an area equivalent to that of the midrange cone , thus matching its directional characteristics and helping to provide a seamless transition at the crossover . |
20 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
21 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
22 | The beautiful ones wear ornate regional head-dresses , chime bells and yodel to welcome the New Year , while nature mummers appear in costumes of pine-cones , moss and snail shells . |
23 | Mr Blair said a recent Government campaign had focused on car security and failed to tackle the central problem of youth crime . |
24 | Phillip DeFreitas managed to play in only three matches in India , including one Test , and failed to take a single wicket . |
25 | There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension . |
26 | whether possible or not , it was never contemplated The Labour party leadership failed consistently to put principle into practice , while the rank-and-file opposition to party politics , as expressed by the Labour Spain Committee , confused imperatives and failed to effect a radical change of policy . |
27 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
28 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |
29 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
30 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |