Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 2 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |
| 3 | They therefore rarely see ‘ the complete picture ’ and tend to lose track of an issue once discussion of it has been concluded . |
| 4 | I mean in my opinion that 's a good thing , but it 's had the effect of school governors , not having had any training in appointing people , have this sort of stereotyped model in their mind and tend to give promotion to men rather than to women . |
| 5 | Miss Hepburn , 63 , who underwent surgery on Sunday , was listed in fair condition and expected to leave hospital within a week . |
| 6 | ‘ I was approached here in Paris by a member of the commercial section of the Iranian Embassy and asked to arrange shipment from Brazil , that 's all . |
| 7 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 8 | THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product . |
| 9 | Worse still , Moscow appeared willing to exploit to the full the unstable post-war conditions , probing western defences in Germany and the Middle East , blessing the Chinese revolution ( 1949 ) , supporting the invasion of South Korea by the communist North ( 1950 ) , and seeking through force , demagogy and sabotage to spread Communism across the undeveloped world . |
| 10 | A mutational analysis indicated that the VZV 140k DNA binding domain was less specific in its DNA binding requirements than that of Vmw175 , and failed to bend DNA at its binding sites . |
| 11 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 12 | Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers . |
| 13 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 14 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 15 | During most of this same period , however , there existed within Anglicanism another more liberal and conciliatory tradition , which drew inspiration from the work of Richard Hooker and sought to minimize controversy by advocating a wide measure of toleration on questions of dogma and ceremony . |
| 16 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
| 17 | The Spanish government introduced government indemnity at the beginning of this year ( see The Art Newspaper No.15 , February 1992 , p.4 ) and agreed to undertake responsibility above Pta1 million ( £5,500 ; $11,000 ) of an indemnity claim . |
| 18 | Apparently Alfonso came to visit Richard and agreed to stand surety for his friend 's behaviour , guaranteeing that he would do nothing against the will of the Duke of Aquitaine or his father . |
| 19 | In April 1865 , after months of hesitation , Agnes Jones decided that God had called her to Liverpool and agreed to become matron of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary at Brownlow Hill . |
| 20 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 21 | Signatories of the nuclear Partial Test Ban Treaty ( PTBT ) signed in August 1963 [ see pp. 19553-60 ] , met in New York on Jan. 7-18 and agreed to achieve progress towards a comprehensive test ban . |
| 22 | Matches are videotaped and charted to keep track of errors and winners . |
| 23 | It 's important to have enough space and a well-thought out arrangement that allows both eating and cooking to take place without the one interfering with the other . |
| 24 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 25 | It was held that they could be convicted a second time and made to pay compensation to a second victim who had read a copy of the same brochure . |
| 26 | Among the dead , apart from laymen like the mayor of York , were many priests and clerks , both seculars and regulars ; among the captured was William Ayermine , chief clerk of the chancery , who was ransomed subsequently for 2000 marks and lived to become bishop of Norwich in 1325 . |
| 27 | However , Ter-Petrosyan continued to accuse the Soviet leadership of colluding with the Azerbaijani leadership in order to punish Armenia 's nationalist government and to bolster flagging support for Azerbaijan 's communist regime led by President Ayaz Mutalibov . |
| 28 | This preference is shown up in growing governmental preference for the many variants of NFI , in which a local enterprise associates with a foreign partner ( or sometimes with two as in Brazil where Tintas Renas teamed up with both ICI and Dupont to produce paint for the local market ) . |
| 29 | This approach has been very evident in the United States , in the most recently settled areas , and has involved reconstruction of changes in biogeographical systems in recent decades and centuries incorporating the influence of human activity . |
| 30 | Palo Alto , California-based Aion Corp is diversifying from its IBM Corp MVS roots and has announced availability of the Aion Development System , a knowledge-based system designed specifically to automate business processes such as scheduling , configuration , monitoring , diagnostic , decision support and service , for Sun Microsystems Inc 's Unix systems . |