Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text will appear and disappear in 200 frames of the movie . |
| 2 | Since the press was now free to publish and comment on all aspects of political life , strident debates took place in the columns of the newspapers and even , though more timidly , within the Legislative Body itself . |
| 3 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 4 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 5 | In this paper , we focus on those results of our research that ( 1 ) suggest that profession-centred approaches to social service provision should be modified ; ( 2 ) team models of practice need to be more widely adopted ; ( 3 ) both professionals and paraprofessionals need specific training for effective team functioning ; ( 4 ) paraprofessional training must affirm and build upon indigenous characteristics and skills ; and ( 5 ) more attention needs to be devoted to career advancement opportunities for paraprofessional personnel . |
| 6 | ‘ The instinct of engineers is to bulldoze and construct in straight parallels . |
| 7 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person . |
| 8 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person |
| 9 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 10 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 11 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 12 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 13 | Given the substantial changes in the economic , political , and business environment of large firms over the past two decades , a critical factor affecting the relative competitive position of British firms must be the capability of firms to adjust and adapt to major changes in the environments and thereby improve their competitive performance . |
| 14 | Geography was important because it would help the evolutionist to explain how populations were able to migrate and adapt to new locations . |
| 15 | one of these was the compensation pendulum , in which brass and steel are used to move freely and compensate for different co-efficients of expansion . |
| 16 | But these judgements were then taken over and pre-packaged for pedagogic purposes , so one had the spectacle of the Leavisite schoolmaster or university teacher who presented his students with duplicated copies of , say , sonnets by Hopkins and Rossetti , which they were invited to compare and contrast in evaluative terms . |
| 17 | In the 1970s optimism and faith gave way to disillusion and doubt as medical costs soared with little apparent benefit . |
| 18 | The international aims of the symposia are the following : To promote inter-institutional collaborative research ; To allow junior researchers to meet and discuss with established researchers ; To engender interest in , and enthusiasm for , infancy research ; To produce publications , with contributions from the symposium attenders ; To serve as a major focus for infancy research in this country . |
| 19 | It then comes to the practical point , Citing German experience to show that ‘ there was a tendency for employee and shareholder representatives to vote and act in distinct groups ’ , they add that the presence of co-opted directors on the board would mean that either group would at the very least need to gain the support of the majority of the directors before they could carry or veto a proposal . |
| 20 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 21 | Adrian , who came 15th despite hopes for a medal , vowed : ‘ I certainly hope to go and win in four years ’ time . ’ |
| 22 | Self-esteem or pride gives the horse confidence to try and get what it wants or needs ; and success increases the horse 's confidence further so it may dare to try and win against greater odds — whether it be stronger horses , an adverse environment , or dominant people . |
| 23 | They much appreciate the work being done by Mrs Doyle , but they are not in a walk of life where they can sit back and wait for better times . |
| 24 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 25 | The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out . |
| 26 | British industry suffered a major crisis and needed to reorganise and rationalise at all levels . |
| 27 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 28 | I felt sorry for poor Heathcliff , and while the Earnshaws were at church , I helped him wash and dress in clean clothes . |
| 29 | The Main Library collections are complemented by faculty libraries for Divinity , Law and the Europa Institute , Medicine , Music , Science , and Veterinary Medicine ; all students may use and borrow from these libraries . |
| 30 | Over the years , Midland has helped thousands of businesses to start up and grow into thriving enterprises . |