Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be . |
| 2 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 3 | To take a specific example , the statement that a direct consequence of a publicly announced and widely believed monetary policy which aims at holding the unemployment rate at U 1 will be a higher expected rate of inflation does not imply the more extreme view that monetary policy can only reduce unemployment below U * ; to the extent that the authorities increase the money supply at a rate in excess of what was generally anticipated . |
| 4 | From this modest start in 1905 the publication developed into a highly respected and widely read quarterly magazine which Ayliffe edited and to which he contributed until 1947 . |
| 5 | Pride of place in this endeavour was given to systematic and properly grounded empirical investigation . |
| 6 | One respondent was not alone in pleading for ‘ a properly funded and functioning court system and properly paid legal aid ’ . |
| 7 | The police rapidly destroyed the remnants of the ‘ People 's Will ’ and successfully contained underground activity during the rest of the 1880s . |
| 8 | Much more controversially , it may also be a contempt to ‘ scandalise the court ’ and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary . |
| 9 | There are many species of bacteria of the Bacteroides fragilis group that are able to degrade these substances and thereby release free sulphate which would then become available for utilisation by sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 10 | The prime object of the society was to secure the adoption of the continental , or Leibnizian , notation for the calculus , in preference to the Newtonian notation then used in England , and thereby to open English mathematics to the eighteenth-century continental developments . |
| 11 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 12 | Max has been found tightly associated with a new partner Mad/Mxil , which points to Max being at the centre of a network of factors whose relative concentrations dictate preferential heterodimerization and thereby control transcriptional activity . |
| 13 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 14 | As with the specific issue of literacy , foreign language teachers have implicitly compared their learners and themselves with educated native-speakers — and thereby created inevitable failure for all but the most exceptional . |
| 15 | Yes it can , if close , humid weather curbs evaporation , allows the temperature of milk to rise , and thereby promotes bacterial production of lactic acid . |
| 16 | It has refused to support proposals for a new draft directive , which would specify that waste be treated as any other commodity , and thereby allowed unrestricted movement . |
| 17 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 18 | More attention to the hardware and information presentation will yield improved operator support whereas more attention to operator training will minimise the difficulties of interpreting information presentations and thereby making full use of machines ( Singleton , 1967b ) . |
| 19 | After all , as Pasternak said , we are people who meditate upon death and thereby create new life . ’ |
| 20 | Using simple partial equilibrium analysis , and assuming perfectly competitive markets , it can be shown that there are net welfare gains to be had from eliminating NTBs and thereby allow free movement to take place . |
| 21 | Consider retaining Network members on a fee paying basis to deliver the Investment Overview to foreign prospective purchasers and thereby enhance preliminary contact and follow-up . |
| 22 | Consequently , the concept can be redefined for the purposes of the unprincipled , such as those who wish to introduce , covertly , restrictive eligibility criteria , and thereby reduce overall spending . |
| 23 | Studies have suggested that cigarette smoking may induce sperm abnormalities and thereby reduce male fertility . |
| 24 | In 1976 Norway held the first international conference on the effects of acidification , and a year later put forward the proposal to set up a convention to control emissions of sulphur dioxide and thereby reduce transboundary pollution . |
| 25 | As subsequently printed , the purpose of aid programmes in Southeast Asia was ‘ to demonstrate that the local national governments are able to bring benefits to their own people and thereby build political support , especially among the rural population ’ , or in the words of the Country Report prepared for the director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program : ‘ to ensure the existence of governments … which represent the legitimate nationalist aspirations of those Indo-Chinese people who do not desire to see communist-orientated governments in Indo-China ’ . |
| 26 | This was a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves and thereby improve seismic hazard assessment . |
| 27 | It is quite likely that the early mammals were nocturnal in habit and thereby avoided direct competition with the smaller dinosaurs . |
| 28 | connected between pre- and power amplifiers or in the tape loop of an integrated amplifier ( there is a duplicate tape loop on the unit to restore the lost facility ) it provides fixed equalization to extend the loudspeaker 's operating range below the normal cutoff point and additionally permits fine adjustment of the frequency response to give subtle control over the in-room performance . |
| 29 | It was mentioned by many of the Greek philosophers and writers , including Aristotle , Plato , and Seneca , and eventually drove pleasure-loving Epicurus , who was plagued by gonococcal stricture , to suicide . |
| 30 | In this pamphlet and elsewhere , Keynes proposed the inflationary gap theory of inflation : upward pressure on money wages and prices would be felt with increasing severity as the pressure of demand approached and eventually exceeded full employment output , Y * ; . |