Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | usually one person is elected to represent the voluntary sector but that places a heavy onus on that representative to liaise and consult with the other voluntary organisations . |
| 2 | The general purpose and scheme of the statutory superstructure is to strengthen and build on the continuing contractual foundation for the greater benefit of all affected — the company , the contributories , the creditors , both secured and unsecured , and the preferential creditors , as well as the public generally . |
| 3 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 4 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 5 | At first the walls seemed to be stacked with dense , stocky , motionless objects , but as the nightmare progressed , they began to writhe and squirm in an eerie , soundless dance . |
| 6 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 7 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 8 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was frightening how hunger and lack of sleep could make you behave and think like a real bastard . |
| 10 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 11 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 12 | In other words , interactivity is really just another word for the ways in which a user can search and browse through an electronic database , the process being more or less constrained by the control software . |
| 13 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |
| 14 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 15 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 16 | The answer is that to improve fitness , the body needs to respond and adapt to a gradual and continual increase in training load . |
| 17 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 18 | But although the cane continued to rise and fall with a terrible regularity , and they continued to hear the awful blows landing , no sound came from their brother . |
| 19 | She felt his chest rise and fall on a long , slightly unsteady intake of breath . |
| 20 | And as he did so he continued to speak , letting his voice rise and fall like a flowing stream , lulling the sleeping child . |
| 21 | The best perm for your hair type would be a conditioning perm which contains protein ingredients to strengthen and condition during the perming process . |
| 22 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 23 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 24 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 25 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 26 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 27 | " [ Mrs Kit Nash ] , year by year , extended the boundaries of her plot by trimming the bramble hedges always from the inside , allowing them to spread and flourish on the outside … |
| 28 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 29 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 30 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |