Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would welcome a system of licensing which allowed private clubs to apply for all-night music and dance licensing in suitable venues . |
| 2 | While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub . |
| 3 | I 'm doing a secretarial course and want to get in that way . |
| 4 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it provides the beginnings of a theory which discriminates between responses which offer short-term emotional comfort for people and changes in technology and economy which produce real gains in human happiness and lessen suffering in this life . |
| 6 | Living snakes and lizards are highly varied , and manage to live in some environments ( e.g. dry deserts ) where the mammals are pushed to survive . |
| 7 | Swiftair items receive priority treatment and separate sorting in this country and in over 140 countries worldwide . |
| 8 | Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain . |
| 9 | At both operations , biopsies from the tumour and non-tumour liver tissue were collected and snap frozen in liquid nitrogen . |
| 10 | If in future , however , reporting of each estimate is extended to include descriptive profiles of quality of life — that is , health states and the valuations placed on them for the new and comparison treatment — then this may enhance credibility and allow reworking in alternative settings . |
| 11 | If you are at work all the time and find fitting in regular exercise rather difficult , then invest in an exercise bike or a rowing machine . |
| 12 | In Europe between the wars fascist movements destroyed democracy in several countries , while in Latin America , Africa and Asia military dictatorships and other forms of authoritarian rule have been common , and continue to exist in many places . |
| 13 | Speak up , speak slowly ( it adds weight to your words and gives the judge a chance to take notes ) and try to speak in articulate sentences . |
| 14 | They actually start to take responsibility for themselves and become empowered in some way . |
| 15 | In this sense there is always a connection between value-standpoints and sociology , for it is when the focus on unhappiness , and its reduction , is lost that social scientists lose their way and become trapped in pseudo-scientific thinking . |
| 16 | Most are washed away by rainstorms or floods , but thousands have survived and become preserved in ossified rock , to reappear when the ground has been split open by paleontologists or the weather . |
| 17 | Many facilities that are seen as key characteristics of an exchange , such as standardised contracts , transparency , liquidity and screen-trading , all can and do exist in off-exchange markets , such as forex and Brent . |
| 18 | Why not start off with a major ITN chunk , and start cutting in regional programmes later ? ’ |
| 19 | As you improve and start to sail in stronger winds you will want to sweep the daggerboard completely up into the board at high speeds to help with control . |
| 20 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 21 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 22 | Erm , Age Concern have recognized that , and wish to move in that direction , although quite clearly , as far as the existing staff are concerned , in the initial move there were certain erm , reservations and wishes and er , and uncertainties which they tried to address in discussions with us and in this paper . |
| 23 | Your objective is to complete your mission and return to base in one piece . |
| 24 | Your objective is to complete your mission and return to base in one piece . |
| 25 | Mrs Fellows was told that she could go home but that she should continue her leg exercises and avoid standing in one position for long periods . |
| 26 | Since progress is still rapid I have chosen the title " An Introduction to Polymer Mechanics " and have indicated in each chapter where further information may be sought and where current advances are being reported . |
| 27 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 28 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 29 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 30 | We have worked in alliance with the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts and have kept in close touch with other voluntary and statutory bodies . |