Example sentences of "and [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this is a time for shedding illusions and for staking up such relative certainties as exist . |
| 2 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 3 | Higher quality printers should be acquired for the heavy-duty work involved in printing out student theses in the third year , and for printing out graphic output from garden design software , which should be purchased from 1993/94 . |
| 4 | For stirring the topsoil without inverting it , and for breaking down half-rotted turf and clods , a wide range of cultivators is available . |
| 5 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 6 | He claimed the centre is structured to provide the necessary balance for training and for carrying out economic evaluations of medicines . |
| 7 | The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence . |
| 8 | At the heart of this home is the fire — alight for cooking , warmth , and for warding off wild animals . |
| 9 | She arranged herself in front of the harmonium again and after pulling out more stops began to sing ‘ On the Banks of Allen Waters ’ . |
| 10 | The procedure covered all cases of euthanasia expressly requested by the patient , of assisted suicide , and of switching off life-support systems for patients in a coma or severely handicapped new-born children . |
| 11 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 12 | He at least had the consolation of a third round loser 's cheque for £5,355 pounds almost doubling his prize money for the year and of picking up valuable ranking points . |
| 13 | But Professor Smithers argues : ‘ It 's perfectly possible , especially now we 've got all the experiences of devising a national curriculum and of working out key stages and ways of testing them . |
| 14 | During Elizabeth 's reign the English had been concerned , as Hakluyt explained , with trade and with opening up new lines of commerce . |
| 15 | Nicholas 's experience abroad enabled him to assist the Company in many ways , such as in starting the cultivation of vines and the silk industry , and in sending out skilled artisans from Germany . |
| 16 | And in picking up these old connections it helps greatly that Greece now belongs to the European Community . |
| 17 | Anomalies are important in evaluating rivals and in bringing about scientific change . |
| 18 | Burroughs anticipates Pynchon with his scientist spokesman for control , Dr Benway , the surreal city called Interzone and in sketching out commercial networks . |
| 19 | The verderers also co-operated with the foresters in supervising the exercise of customary rights within the forest , such as taking wood for fuel , fencing and house-repair ; in making arrangements at the swanimote for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods ; and in carrying out various inquiries in the forest into such matters as the rights of the Crown and the perquisites of the Forest officers . |
| 20 | The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy . |
| 21 | These operators include those to merge relations and on separate out some columns or some rows . |
| 22 | The impact of fiscal policy on interest rates and on crowding out private investment has , then , to some extent been a consideration of policy-makers.3 More generally , however , the model and the equations defining the slopes of the functions point to those variables that will be important in explaining the impact of fiscal policy on the level of output . |
| 23 | He does this by making the labour process , and the shift from Fordism to neo-Fordism , more central to his analysis and by bringing in social and political forces at every stage . |
| 24 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |
| 25 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 26 | The Unilever product cost twice as much per ounce in Barbados as it did in England , and by driving out cheaper local alternatives the end result for the lower income consumer in Barbados was a product that was too expensive , too well-packaged and often surplus to requirements . |