Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 2 | In 1897 he obtained a post at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , and planned to enter Imperial College , London , with a studentship in 1898 , intending to become a botany teacher . |
| 3 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 4 | If the former are sometimes rather abstract and theoretical , the latter often show relatively little concern with trends or issues outside their own field , and tend to draw few parallels . |
| 5 | The appropriate Government departments in most cases issue model forms of these byelaws and tend to oppose major departure from their standard forms . |
| 6 | Both groups strongly identify with their professional bodies and tend to feel more allegiance to their profession than to their individual employer . |
| 7 | Similarly , configurations of insurance against liability enlarge the ability to pay this tax and tend to attract legal obligations . |
| 8 | They all look shopmade and tend to have unimaginative decorations on top . |
| 9 | Such adjectives belong to the popular , rather than learned , stratum of English vocabulary and tend to have emotive connotations , here largely pejorative . |
| 10 | Most corporate acquisitions achieve little for society as whole and tend to worsen economic ills in the older cities . |
| 11 | Do n't be tempted to skimp on quality in living rooms , which get the most wear and tend to develop distinct traffic routes between the furniture . |
| 12 | Her husband dies in a car accident alongside another woman and driven by grief and jealousy , she investigates his secret life and becomes entangled with a rather nasty mystic group , some of whom are 400 years old and tend to drop rotting flesh and eyeballs on the carpet . |
| 13 | The Finance Minister , Adnan Kahveci said on April 12 that Turkey had spent $45,000,000 so far on relief and expected to spend another $50,000,000 to provide food for refugees . |
| 14 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 15 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 16 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 17 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 18 | Five music schools will be contacted and asked to nominate one candidate each who will then be asked to play a short piece to be judged at the festival . |
| 19 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 20 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 21 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
| 22 | The organisation would have legal autonomy in monitoring the application of EC health and safety legislation in member states — and helping to shape future legislation . |
| 23 | In state capitals , the standard of museums and of the performing arts is a source of pride , and helping to raise those standards confers prestige and social cachet . |
| 24 | We see ourselves putting a continuing input into the shaping of the course , and helping to recruit suitable students . |
| 25 | She specialises in linking and helping to solve violent crimes by comparing the perpetrators ' methods . |
| 26 | But the same union members who do n't want full membership are particularly keen on other forms of involvement , like voting for Labour 's leaders and helping to select Parliamentary candidates . |
| 27 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 28 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |
| 29 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 30 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |