Example sentences of "and [vb -s] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that to rely exclusively on the electoral or parliamentary road to the goal of socialism is to shut-off the possibility of attaining that goal precisely because it overestimates the power of party and the democratic state ; underestimates rival centres of power ; and minimises the moderating implications of parliamentary democracy and much else besides . |
| 2 | George Piggott retired in 1972 aged 70 , although he still works part-time on the course today and produces the attractive borders and tubs by the clubhouse . |
| 3 | If you like , the columns are the shorthand version of the pattern , the console reads the shorthand and displays the written instructions as you knit . |
| 4 | ‘ Even Snookums knows and appreciates the soothing qualities of Johnson 's Toilet and Baby Powder . ’ |
| 5 | The Bar Council is responsible for the maintenance of professional standards and represents the general interests of the Bar in its relations with outsiders . |
| 6 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 7 | His dragon , Nightfang , goes berserk and routs the Dark Elves . |
| 8 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 9 | France Telecom said Spheris will be completed by the end of this year , when it receives its Minitel and Unix workstation functions and integrates the latest specifications , X.400-88 and X.500 . |
| 10 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 11 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 12 | In an extreme situation , we 've got something like an in situ situation so the interviewer will have much more power , and has the total rights to change the topic and choose the topic , and cut off the topic when it 's finished . |
| 13 | It is easy to use and has the following features : |
| 14 | The first of the five villages of the Cinque Terre , Monterosso al Mare is the largest and the most accessible of them all and has the finest hotels and restaurants . |
| 15 | This must normally be a designated station , that is one which has a custody officer and has the necessary facilities to cope with those detained following arrest . |
| 16 | A single 1,641-base pair ( bp ) open reading frame gives a predicted polypeptide sequence of 554 residues and has the typical features observed in a type I integral membrane protein . |
| 17 | Each copy is the same as the original , and has the same properties as the original . |
| 18 | Dan Rizzo is a self-confessed cheesecake freak and has the generous proportions to prove it . |
| 19 | Witness its monuments to the dead of the Second World War : old synagogues are preserved , public buildings stand as memorials , and — unique in the world — Amsterdam has its own Homomonument , which commemorates and mourns the homosexual victims of fascism . |
| 20 | The course on theory and criticism will run for two terms and covers the major theories and methods of film practice from Eisenstein 's articles on montage to contemporary pronouncements on auteur cinema . |
| 21 | The first oral tentacle scale which usually lies below these papillae , often becomes superficial and joins the oral papillae series . |
| 22 | It is tricked out with a handsome jacket and contains the standard acknowledgements , including the author 's thanks to the Universe for her participation in Existence . |
| 23 | Methanol is toxic and dissolves the soldered joints in petrol tanks . |
| 24 | However , after extensive playtesting it turned out that P2 is as enjoyable as you could hope for … and beats the living daylights out of 90% of all other games in this category . |
| 25 | Field ( 1989 ) , in his discussion of the underclass , leaves out the racial dimension and emphasises the economic aspects . |
| 26 | Such vivid , metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world . |
| 27 | A new book in the Learn to Paint series , Moira Huntly examines combinations of paint and illustrates the basic techniques , followed by some demonstration paintings . |
| 28 | A new book in the Learn to Paint series , Moira Huntly examines combinations of paint and illustrates the basic techniques , followed by some demonstration paintings . |
| 29 | Brian Laban dons his chest wig and flexes the huge muscles of Britain 's ultimate sports cars |
| 30 | This version of functionalism connects with the movement of New Liberalism and highlights the Hegelian aspects of pragmatism associated , in particular , with Dewey . |