Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence , also , the glare and roar of flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way , and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | Although ‘ orthodox ’ theory disregards orthogenesis ( often confusing it with rectilinearity ) the existence of ‘ laws of growth ’ was recognised by Darwin , although he failed to synthesise their role in relation to the environment and vastly overemphasised the power and importance of natural selection . |
| 3 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 4 | This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site . |
| 5 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 6 | Consigned for sale by Alexander Klee , grandson of Paul Klee who was given the painting by Kandinsky in exchange for one of his own , it is a sketch for ‘ Composition VII ’ of 1913 , now in the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow , and widely considered the artist 's most innovative painting of that year . |
| 7 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The purchaser may have no confidence in either the vendor 's ability or the vendor 's intention to fully and properly disclose the liabilities of the company . |
| 10 | They were chatting ; Robyn returned to the hob and nervously added the rest of the ingredients to the sauce . |
| 11 | Owen reached through the branches to the bridle of Isambard 's horse , that stood tossing his head and nervously trampling the path . |
| 12 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 13 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 14 | Cranmer , who will be 78 on September 10 , is mentally alert and avidly follows the fortunes of his beloved Warwickshire through the newspapers . |
| 15 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 16 | Keep low and vigorously throw the rig across the board ( to the right ) before attempting to sheet in |
| 17 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 18 | Egerton Wake became the party 's national agent and vigorously pursued the policy of giving direction to the rest of the movement , through the organization of regional and local conferences . |
| 19 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 20 | In 1962 he returned to Rampur and successfully contested the state seat to become a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly . |
| 21 | The eurypterids are probably allied to the scorpions , which originated in the Silurian or even earlier , and successfully made the transition from the aqueous environment to land . |
| 22 | Troops loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema again disrupted the transition period [ see also p. 39041 ] when a 100-strong force occupied the National Assembly building on Oct. 22 and successfully demanded the unfreezing of the assets of the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , formerly the sole legal party , led by Eyadema , which had been dissolved in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |
| 23 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 24 | Alone again , Belinda returned to her original plan and successfully reached the chair in the corner of the room , from which she could quietly observe the other guests without too much fear of attracting attention . |
| 25 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 26 | As intended , it was the highlight of the film and successfully reflected the pain endured by long-distance runners . |
| 27 | She was trying to master celestial navigation and I stood beside her as she trapped Altair in the mirror , then delicately and successfully brought the star down to the horizon . |
| 28 | Throughout the year , the Agency effectively and successfully committed the resources available to it in support of training . |
| 29 | As you can see , if West had led his last spade dummy would have been forced to ruff and successfully play the ace of clubs . |
| 30 | gained credit via APL for up to 50% of the areas of study and successfully completed the assessment schedules for the other 50% of the areas of study |