Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 2 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 3 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 4 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 5 | Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently until cooked . |
| 6 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 7 | It aims to elaborate and refine rather than overturn ; it is evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 8 | Consent is represented as the critical feature of the law which ensures the patient 's right to self-determination , whereas , in fact , it is referred to and manipulated so as to produce the opposite result . |
| 9 | The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures . |
| 10 | It contains several rare species and is the home of Britain 's rarest spider , the great raft spider , which is known in only one other site in the UK ( at Pevensey in East Sussex ) and has all but disappeared elsewhere in Europe because of the draining of its fenland habitats . |
| 11 | The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams . |
| 12 | The total of people out of work for a year rose by 75,000 in the three months to January and has more than doubled since it started increasing in October 1987 . |
| 13 | Yet would it not be better to abandon this headlong errand and sleep rather than go out once more into the drenching darkness ? |
| 14 | Brick makes great paving on its own and looks best when used in a pattern |
| 15 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 16 | They inspired the efforts of Admirals D'Estaing and De Grasse in the War of the American Revolution to seize British West Indian islands and evade rather than destroy the fleets to which they were opposed . |
| 17 | They speak of opting out in the primary , secondary and further education sectors ; as for social services , they speak of monitoring and enabling rather than providing . |
| 18 | people to talk to , encourage teachers and criticise constructively when required |
| 19 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 20 | In corporatist reasoning elites collude and collaborate rather than compete . |
| 21 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 22 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 23 | It looks at the ageing process with optimism and hope rather than despair . |
| 24 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 25 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
| 26 | Bentham 's universally applicable form for these buildings was circular with an inspector 's lodge housed in a tower in the centre and positioned so as to afford an uninterrupted view into the remainder of the accommodation . |
| 27 | Place the two ingredients together in a vinaigrette bottle or small screw-top jar and shake vigorously until blended . |
| 28 | Place all the ingredients in a vinaigrette bottle or small screw-top jar and shake vigorously until blended . |
| 29 | A situation can be structured and comprehended so as to indicate a direction for proceeding . |
| 30 | Future services must be structured and organized so as to avoid the pitfalls : an organizational structure is required to facilitate the smooth cooperation of all the individual parts of a service and ensure that there are no wasteful overlaps and no gaps . |