Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 2 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 3 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 4 | If the NTB is removed , the firm could increase exports and thereby expand output to Q2 which would reduce price to P2 . |
| 5 | There were many branches of the Northumbrian dynasty , however , and many noble families who claimed descent from Ida and thereby expressed aspirations to the kingship . |
| 6 | Yet another type of vocabulary can have difference in meaning for patient and nurse and thereby give rise to difficulties — words describing parts of the body , though having a particular anatomical reference , do not necessarily have that reference for lay people , even intelligent lay people . |
| 7 | The original plan was that Anita would do the cooking and her husband would serve the customers , but she did not enjoy being behind the scenes and eventually taught Gordon to be a fine cook while she spent her time out front chatting up the customers . |
| 8 | The single market is , of course , designed to lower and eventually eliminate barriers to the movement of goods , services and people . |
| 9 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 10 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 11 | Following this she then insults his manliness , and delicately manipulates Macbeth to her view of the situation . |
| 12 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 13 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 14 | Her new owner was prepared for some difficulty , and so took Anna to a good professional horsebreaker ; but to no avail . |
| 15 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 16 | Flu viruses are notorious for the ease in which they undergo such antigenic shifts , as they are called , and so giving rise to epidemics . |
| 17 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 18 | This proclamation was to be read out in towns and other places without delay , in the presence of some ‘ good religious ’ who could read and so bear witness to its authenticity . |
| 19 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 20 | Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously ; he also turned down Balcarres 's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year . |
| 21 | Exercise stimulates blood flow to the skin and so gives rise to a healthy appearance . |
| 22 | In addition , CAB advisers are proud to be a ‘ one-stop ’ service and there is a fear that a receptionist may make unnecessary referrals in order to relieve queues and so reduce bureaux to the signposting agencies they were once considered to be . |
| 23 | The seriousness was underlined when he warned : ‘ Our party could break itself over Europe with consequences which would deeply damage Britain and only bring comfort to our opponents . |
| 24 | The builder 's shares withstood the pressure and only fell 4p to 142p . |
| 25 | It was far too early for the immaculate and highly paid receptionist to be in ; in fact , no one below the level of partner was present . |
| 26 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 27 | Had it not been for the enthusiasm and energy of the St Andrews Friends , that Garden might well have had to close , but now it is a thriving and greatly appreciated asset to the town and to a wider community . |
| 28 | Referring to the Voluntary Severance Scheme in Bank of Ireland , Mr. Ryan said the IBOA did not oppose a scheme which enabled senior and long serving people to ‘ get a well-deserved rest from banking . |
| 29 | Two more detailed and better considered responses to this question were those of Wundt and Tylor . |
| 30 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |