Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] the [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 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 3 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 4 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 5 | To recall and build on the earlier analysis , these rules have to do with truth-telling , sincerity , intelligibility , empathy and active listening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 12 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 13 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 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 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 19 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 20 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 21 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
| 22 | Given the difficulties of monetary base control , would you expect M0 and broader measures of the money supply , such as M4 , to rise and fall by the same percentage as each other ? |
| 23 | The best perm for your hair type would be a conditioning perm which contains protein ingredients to strengthen and condition during the perming process . |
| 24 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 25 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 26 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " [ 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 … |
| 29 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 30 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |