Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Following this she then insults his manliness , and delicately manipulates Macbeth to her view of the situation .
2 Exercise stimulates blood flow to the skin and so gives rise to a healthy appearance .
3 And what if Mr Ashdown gets his way : a coalition government later this month which introduces electoral reform and thus commits Britain to more coalition governments for the indefinite future ?
4 On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) .
5 The negative sign involves a perturbation to 5 which reverses each tR , and thus gives rise to an oscillation with period 2tR .
6 Bukharin saw the separation of the producers from the means of production , that is the breakdown of peasant economy and the driving from the land of the peasants , as the main historical form of this primitive accumulation and further quotes Marx to this effect .
7 The term also carries with it certain elite connotations , and quickly generates references to ‘ standards ’ and ‘ excellence ’ .
8 If , at Z Press , the editors at Layer 111 find and develop manuscripts into books with market potential , it is their general editor at Layer IV who fits those books into the press 's overall list , who thinks ahead to their position on next year 's list and later allocates resources to their production and marketing , and who makes projections about the publishing and book-buying trends of the next two to five years .
9 The main activity menu has a series of characters or objects that become animated if selected , and also gives access to the other five options .
10 The Theatre in Chipping Norton was once a Salvation Army Citadel , and now plays host to touring shows , panto , cabaret and films .
11 Volkswagen leads the way with its ‘ Umwelt Diesel ’ ( Environmental Diesel ) engines and now fits catalysts to practically all models .
12 Somebody must have spotted a niche in the market to justify importing German chipped potatoes for instance , and now gives employment to clerks , insurers , salesmen here supporting German agriculture and food processors .
13 The program is surprisingly powerful and even allows scripts to be written so that mouse or keyboard input can be made as the show is run .
14 Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it .
15 This new program opens the file , sets PTR# to the end ( line 380 ) and then adds data to it .
16 A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically .
17 As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) .
18 All we will have to do is look out of the window to determine which hypothesis is correct , and therefore deserves elevation to the status of a theory .
19 ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " .
20 However , the Act of 1988 does not govern access to quotas but the registration of fishing vessels and therefore affects access to all sea-fishing activities , including fishing for species not subject to quotas .
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