Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 2 | Erm , there 's that to do , a new wing and that door to straighten out , a new front , all front balance |
| 3 | Many in both parties now recognise this , and that unity to bring about change in the way Scotland is governed is the only way forward . |
| 4 | Does he have the vision and political nous to carry on the changes begun — but certainly not completed — by his predecessor ? |
| 5 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 6 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 7 | Zimbabwe and other African countries are now making the same mistake , and inviting Swedes to come over and do progressive things to their economies . |
| 8 | However , the San Franciscan police usually look the other way when drug workers swap needles , sometimes by putting clean syringes in a pram and inviting junkies to step up and feed ‘ the baby ’ . |
| 9 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 10 | Now the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society is to set up a ‘ Buildings at Risk ’ service to identify those most in danger and to encourage potential restorers in the public and private sector to help out . |
| 11 | In order to identify those most at risk and encourage potential restorers from the public and private sectors to take on buildings in need of rescue , the Buildings At Risk Service has been set up . |
| 12 | Announced last autumn , the initiative brings together public and private sectors to carry out regeneration . |
| 13 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 14 | Detectives from Thames Valley CID , joined with the force 's burglary , fraud and drugs squads and uniformed officers to carry out the raids . |
| 15 | But he also knew I have a hard bitten , tough as old boots , ice cool and unemotional image to keep up . |
| 16 | Do not they also draw attention to the willingness of some countries and some parties to sign up to measures that they have no intention of implementing ? |
| 17 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 18 | Both explored the breakup of wartime solidarity , the liberation of former restraints on individual selfishness and the irruption of dark , subversive and irrational forces to tear down the cosy myths so assiduously cultivated during wartime . |
| 19 | Those of you who wish will one day be provided with new identities and luxurious homes to live in . |
| 20 | Longer planning leads will enable Horticultural and scientific staff to bring on appropriate living material for incorporation into the displays . |
| 21 | Fond farewells exchanged , we set off for home , our brains buzzing with new and exciting ideas to bring back to Wales ’ . |
| 22 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 23 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 24 | Today is the three thousand one hundred and seventy first day of the campaign … and another chance to set out their stall and hope to win another supporter . |
| 25 | However fast the army was marching , the Forteviot men would take an hour to reach them , and another hour to come back . |
| 26 | Cost me a fiver for her hair to be done on Monday and another fiver to go out on Berlin Square on Tuesday . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've only got one hour and forty-five minutes to get back to Planet Centram . ’ |
| 28 | There is even a bird-enticing mere built especially for them , with islands , and high banks to keep out unwanted humans . |
| 29 | Mr Howard dismissed the French and German threat to press on with unity ahead of the rest of Europe . |
| 30 | The scenario reads : pressure on living standards added to general contempt for the regime leads to massive strikes which cause the economy to nosedive and popular discontent to boil over . |