Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 2 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 3 | And goes down the way . |
| 4 | He was wearing a white shirt tonight , with very full sleeves and ruffles down the front . |
| 5 | The analysis is based on econometric modelling and involves both the estimation of the determinants of labour market behaviour and the use of such estimates for stimulating the impact of policy changes . |
| 6 | Excel boasts a graph creating wizard , which guides you through graph creation , and turns out the kind of thing you see in the screenshots . |
| 7 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 8 | Responsibility can not be delegated , so that a manager is accepted by his staff and has also the responsibility for providing an environment in which each individual is able to fulfil his obligations . |
| 9 | Denis Smith says … he 's known John for a long time and has just the experience and talent that Oxford need |
| 10 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 11 | The letter states that efforts will be made to create a ‘ fair distribution ’ of press releases , and holds out the olive-branch of club membership before the next company-reporting season in November . |
| 12 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 14 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 15 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 17 | ‘ When the sandfly bites you , it lets in this protozoan , which gets under your skin and eats away the underlayer , after which the top layer breaks away leaving raw , open wounds . |
| 18 | If a magazine is entirely devoted to Software Editorial and Reviews then the need to focus on the detail increases with it . |
| 19 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 20 | The retailer selects the items he wants and fills in the form as outlined above . |
| 21 | … this closes the directory browser and fills in the Command Line section on the Program Item Properties box . |
| 22 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 23 | Eventually the track emerges from the woodland onto open moorland , and climbs up the hillside . |
| 24 | The figure shows the nature of expenditure ( hospital running costs , capital expenditure , general practice expenditure ) and shows clearly the split which currently exists between the Hospital and Community Health Services ( on the left of the figure ) and the Family Practitioner Services ( on the right ) . |
| 25 | Using material from Europe and North America collected by the Museums during the past 150 years , the gallery offers an historical record of styles and taste and shows how the development of communications helped shape the work by artists and manufacturers . |
| 26 | Mosaics cover the half-domes of the niches but only the extreme left doorway — the Porta di Sant Allipio — has its original mosaic of the thirteenth century ; this illustrates the transportation of S. Mark 's body to the new church and shows how the church looked at about 1210 , based upon Justinian 's Church of the Holy Apostles ( PLATE 34 ) . |
| 27 | The following result solves ( 9 ) for the optimal strategy and shows how the sequence C t converges . |
| 28 | Using this phenomenon I evolved a design that appeals to my sense of aesthetics , based on simple sections of a hollow sphere , and shows off the grain of the wood to best advantage . |
| 29 | The report gives details of the jet 's mission and clears both the crew and the equipment of any fault . |
| 30 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |