Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 2 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 3 | Again he showed enormous potential , at once getting a feel for the audience and realizing people were interested in gimmicks and gadgets rather than dull , but more enlightening , scientific theory with pictures of boffins pottering about in laboratories . |
| 4 | The design of his study , comparing plants in different cultures and countries rather than comparing plants operating different technologies , is bound to heighten the reader 's awareness of cultural rather than technological influences . |
| 5 | The crucial area of debate centres upon whether the signals from ecologically fragile and marginal areas will reach institutions and governments so as to induce appropriate innovations for those areas . |
| 6 | It is , as we saw clearly during the Gulf war , the very sophistication of America 's procurement and the new technology of weaponry that demand that we count the Americans as friends and allies rather than trying to go it alone . |
| 7 | This was a major factor in the decision by Fowler Welch , an expanding road haulage company in Spalding , Lincolnshire , to lease its trailers and lorries rather than purchase them outright . |
| 8 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 9 | The assessment panels have contributed to the development of the general idea that , within reasonable constraints and parameters , schools should be sufficiently flexible to adjust to defined needs and problems rather than impose rigid , homogeneous solutions to particular and individual problems . |
| 10 | None of these impairments appeared when the patient was asked to read words and non-words rather than to spell them . |
| 11 | This process usually involved the gradual and haphazard addition of side-streets and lanes so as to provide access to land beyond the immediate frontages . |
| 12 | WACC-AR should develop leadership and resources so as to create a more critically aware consumer media , thus achieving a level of media literacy parallel to that of reading literacy ; |
| 13 | Colin Urie , of the Operations Section , is looking at ways of increasing cooperation between SCOTVEC and centres so as to reduce delays in certification . |
| 14 | Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion : |
| 15 | ‘ We 're looking for unusual colours and layouts rather than perfect weed-free gardens , ’ says Monica Meads of the NGS . |
| 16 | One can feel the painter , at first with gestures that are almost childish , and later like a strong , fully grown man , emptying his body of energy and liquids so as to leave traces to prove that he had physically existed . |
| 17 | But following this change in tax credits on dividends some employer contribution holidays will have to stop , while other less well-padded schemes may be forced to invest more in secure vehicles such as bonds and gilts rather than maintain the heavy weighting towards equities typical of most funds at present . |
| 18 | Britain , the Soviet Union and China could provide supervisors and advisers so as to reduce the American composition of the governing commission . |
| 19 | Most PAYE settlements involve minor technical errors and misunderstandings rather than deliberate disregard for the P11D and other reporting regulations . |
| 20 | The right swept the election but most of the appointed members were moderates and leftists so as to redress the balance . |
| 21 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 22 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 23 | Put another way , it is managing antecedents and consequences so as to effect change in behaviour . |
| 24 | But demand for ready-made pizzas , sandwiches , ethnic foods and salads more than compensated . |
| 25 | Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large |