Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The appropriate Government departments in most cases issue model forms of these byelaws and tend to oppose major departure from their standard forms . |
| 3 | Similarly , configurations of insurance against liability enlarge the ability to pay this tax and tend to attract legal obligations . |
| 4 | They all look shopmade and tend to have unimaginative decorations on top . |
| 5 | Such adjectives belong to the popular , rather than learned , stratum of English vocabulary and tend to have emotive connotations , here largely pejorative . |
| 6 | Most corporate acquisitions achieve little for society as whole and tend to worsen economic ills in the older cities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We see ourselves putting a continuing input into the shaping of the course , and helping to recruit suitable students . |
| 12 | She specialises in linking and helping to solve violent crimes by comparing the perpetrators ' methods . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Madrid was driven by its competition with the more advanced States of north-western Europe ( and shortly to be overwhelmed by the Napoleonic wars ) , and failed to draw salutary lessons from Britain 's loss of its North American colonies . |
| 17 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 18 | You stole from the dead , and failed to deliver certain information to the King 's Justices or to the Sheriff . |
| 19 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , said in an interview in the Police Review this month that the complaints procedures had become almost unworkable , and failed to command public confidence — and particularly of ethnic minorities . |
| 20 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 21 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 22 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 23 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 24 | Halley claims that Sonnabend are disorganised and failed to make suitable contact with collectors and museums interested in his work . |
| 25 | We prospectively determined the prevalence and outcome of hypoxaemia in children with respiratory illness presenting to an urban referral hospital in Kenya and sought to correlate clinical signs with its presence . |
| 26 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 27 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 28 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 29 | Oil ministers of the 13 member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) met in Geneva on May 2-3 and agreed to cut total oil production to about 22,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in order to stabilize prices [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 30 | A Council resolution of 7 June 1991 also emphasised separately the importance it attached to the training of arts administrators and agreed to encourage existing initiatives in this area at a European level . |