Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
| 2 | In Russia , any attempt to refuse this right would immediately aid the bourgeoisie of each nationality and tend to push the local working class into its arms . |
| 3 | Both have washed rinds and a firm texture and tend to have the washed rind garage-cheese smell , as described in the section on soft cheeses ( p69 ) . |
| 4 | Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm . |
| 5 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 6 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 7 | The beautiful ones wear ornate regional head-dresses , chime bells and yodel to welcome the New Year , while nature mummers appear in costumes of pine-cones , moss and snail shells . |
| 8 | Mr Blair said a recent Government campaign had focused on car security and failed to tackle the central problem of youth crime . |
| 9 | There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension . |
| 10 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 11 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |
| 12 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 13 | Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service . |
| 14 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 15 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 16 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 17 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 18 | Once the government began to exploit their possibilities by raising the true rate of duty and levying special impositions , Parliament remembered its powers and sought to recapture the commanding heights which it had surrendered . |
| 19 | But none of these explains the tireless persistence with which he both articulated and sought to reconcile the contradictory aspects of his thinking . |
| 20 | In the 1870s , a series of military reforms gave new impetus to the professionalization of the officer corps , and sought to emulate the Prussian example by introducing universal conscription , building a reserve of trained men , and reducing the size of the massive standing army . |
| 21 | The new budget granted greater financial autonomy to the public sector , and sought to encourage the private sector , both local and foreign , to invest and to increase employment . |
| 22 | The Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage , Robert Key , introducing the draft order , said the increase in funding was more than 5% , which recognised the costs of a new computer and sought to maintain the real level of the rate per loan to authors . |
| 23 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 24 | Thirdly , he encouraged health improvements in an effort to raise the standards of hygiene and sought to contain the sweeping epidemics that intermittently tore through the population . |
| 25 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 26 | This part of the grape 's flesh produces the richest juice in terms of sugar , acids and trace elements , and goes to make the highest quality Champagnes . |
| 27 | A major role for the peace movement is therefore to help to overcome this fear , and to work actively to put forward constructive disarmament suggestions , and to continue to take the necessary political actions to ensure that the issue remains in the forefront of public attention . |
| 28 | In the first ICU the patient is correctly diagnosed and treated to correct the physiological variables . |
| 29 | GCC Defence Ministers met in Jeddah on Aug. 22 and agreed to reinforce the Peninsular Shield Force , the organization 's Saudi-based rapid deployment force [ see p. 34265 ] . |
| 30 | The pilots on Oct. 4 withdrew their pay claim and agreed to accept the 6 per cent national guideline agreed by the government and the trade unions , but the airlines refused to respond while the matter was before the arbitration commission . |