Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two more detailed and better considered responses to this question were those of Wundt and Tylor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 12 | How emotionally extravagant the Italians are , she thought fondly as , calming down , he returned to bed and gently made love to her . |
| 13 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 14 | CP is therefore a quickly and easily arranged alternative to a bank loan . |
| 15 | When the package is ready for release , a ‘ Product ’ is created to act as a meaningful and easily identified reference to the version of the package which is to be released . |
| 16 | He knew nothing about drill , but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer . |
| 17 | Davie Irons again strolled through the game at the heart of Thistle 's defence , and still found time to be one of their best attackers . |
| 18 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
| 19 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
| 20 | The HCIMA helped to man the Industry Careers stand at Careers ‘ 92 in Manchester and London , and also provided advice to visitors to the Caterer & Hotelkeeper Careers Fair at the Connaught Rooms in October . |
| 21 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 22 | In the village centre is a recently erected and sweepingly designed memorial to 617 Squadron , listing all their daring bombing-raids and their names . |
| 23 | Clearly much of the material is unsupportable and there is a sense in which this is self-evident in that the Scrapbook is styled as an ‘ anti-document ’ which , like the films of Debord , is co-extensive with the equally unsupportable and qualitatively diminished world to which it relates . |
| 24 | He reminded them of how their predecessors had been punished for their wickedness and repeatedly urged obedience to the commands of the Church . |
| 25 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 26 | Overall , it is a handy reference text and well constructed guide to this particular form of research . |
| 27 | The violas , as we know , being on their C string will impart a dark and strongly characterized tone-colour to the cellos who will be playing in a very sweet and expressive though rather sombre part of their compass . |
| 28 | These two arrangements , which directly and indirectly committed Britain to major international financial responsibilities in which the operation of sterling as a reserve currency was an essential element , stemmed from a deeper commitment to the belief in Britain 's world role [ Clarke , 1982 ; Scammell , 1980 ; Strange , 1971 ] . |
| 29 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 30 | Producers checked with the Queen and Buckingham Palace and then distributed copies to other TV and radio companies round the world . |