Example sentences of "and [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | At the point where the program is trying to set up the tutorial files it reports that it is unable to find ‘ Festina Text ’ and skips the entire operation . |
| 3 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 4 | 19.1 This Agreement supersedes any arrangements , understandings , promises or agreements made or existing between the Parties hereto prior to or simultaneously with this Agreement and constitutes the entire understanding between the Parties hereto . |
| 5 | Finally , apart from demoting the status of fitness for purpose and reversing the Aswan case , this list does not change the present law , but merely removes uncertainty and renders the implied term easier and less uncertain in application . |
| 6 | If the first punch is effectively blocked , then the attacker moves in nearer and unleashes the other fist . |
| 7 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |
| 8 | The so-called Caudal Sympathetic Nervous System arises from the posterior compound ganglion of the ventral nerve-cord and supplies the reproductive system and posterior part of the gut ; it is , however , difficult to draw a clear distinction between such a system and the visceral branches of the peripheral nervous system considered below . |
| 9 | They need to be assured that the options for flood relief have been fully explored and that this is the most effective means and produces the minimum amount of damage to the environment . |
| 10 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The resultant flow relieves the tension and produces the observed stress decay . |
| 13 | But the management disputes those figures and insists the new service is n't a threat . |
| 14 | Because this market controls and disciplines the economic power associated with property ownership it serves to legitimate that power within the framework of liberalism . |
| 15 | Once a depth of 1.5 metres is exceeded , the Solution enters into dive mode and displays the no-decompression time available , current depth , elapsed dive time and water temperature . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mr Redwood said : ‘ The M4 and the Great Western Railway that carries Welsh goods to the English market and beyond also bring English voices and influences the other way . |
| 18 | ‘ Even Snookums knows and appreciates the soothing qualities of Johnson 's Toilet and Baby Powder . ’ |
| 19 | The crooked pay-off is that the secretary feels blameless and discounts the innocent manager . |
| 20 | The " explanatory survey " , as its name implies , is concerned to gain information from respondents in order to test some theoretical explanation and represents the full-blown expression of variable analysis in the survey tradition . |
| 21 | The Bar Council is responsible for the maintenance of professional standards and represents the general interests of the Bar in its relations with outsiders . |
| 22 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 23 | In the liver , the migrating L2 and L3 can cause " milk spot " which appears as cloudy whitish spots of up to 1.0 cm in diameter , and represents the fibrous repair of inflammatory reactions to the passage of larvae in the livers of previously sensitised pigs ( P1.IV ) . |
| 24 | It has changed little although modernised by a filling station and a caravan park and offers the only opportunity to spend money within a very wide area ; there is also a long-established hotel popular with Victorian mountaineers , a shop and a cafe . |
| 25 | Datapost is our premium service and offers the following insurance cover : |
| 26 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 27 | It is characterised by formal procedures and offers the individual security , stability and predictability . |
| 28 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 29 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 30 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |