Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and second years of the course give students a thorough grounding in basic musicianship and develop their practical skills . |
| 2 | Our ‘ post-heroic leader ’ will allow others to take responsibility , develop their own skills , solve their own problems and develop their own goals . |
| 3 | On one occasion when Reagan , at short notice , addressed an audience of between three and four thousand teachers As a GE spokesman Reagan had the opportunity to hone his oratorical skills , and develop his political ideas . |
| 4 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 5 | we build our spindly cities on , and plant and tend our perishable groves |
| 6 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 7 | The Indian Patents Act of 1970 prohibits patenting of life forms and , the farmers argue , protects their traditional rights to produce , modify and sell their own seeds . |
| 8 | Come and tickle its tiny toes and admire its baby-blue eyes ! |
| 9 | Even so , a perfectly-sighted Ted can suffer with streaming eyes for several reasons during the fall , so best play safe and make him some goggles from a pop bottle , as shown opposite . |
| 10 | How far this will work depends on how far we can inject into cross-curricular work the essence of our ideas and make them genuine focuses of our work ( and not peripheral elements ) . |
| 11 | The parties ( or elites ) must be allowed to publish their programmes and make their competing claims to office ; the elector must be able to question them , and voice his or her doubts or support . |
| 12 | Soon , behind a barricade of shields and of steel , the helpless ships were drawn off , and the rest of the crippled fleet began to come in , two by two , and make their proper landings . |
| 13 | Some adults make the choice to live on their own after they have tried various shared living arrangements and discovered that they prefer to be in control of their own life and make their own rules . |
| 14 | Mr Smith understood there was a need to send money home to most mothers but reasoned if the Girls were capable of earning above average wages , they should be treated like adults and make their own decisions about their finances . |
| 15 | They , too , need to know without delay where they stand so that they can prepare to work in and with the new structures and make their own bids for funds . |
| 16 | ‘ But it should not be used as a pretext to exclude 12- or 13-year-old girls from school when it is precisely these secular schools that should offer them the opportunity to learn , grow and make their own choices . ’ |
| 17 | It is an attractive concept : learners work at their own pace and make their own choices about what and how they will study . |
| 18 | Advocacy schemes have been developed to help people with mental disorder assert their rights and make their own choices . |
| 19 | It is now up to WACC , the churches and NGOs to monitor the discourse critically and make their own contributions . |
| 20 | Whether we as surgeons like it or not , our engineering colleagues at the University now have the knowledge and expertise to revolutionise many of the surgical procedures performed across all specialities and make our current methods appear extremely crude . ’ |
| 21 | But I do say that we , the ordinary man , must either insist he takes responsibility for what he discovers , and does concern himself with the ethics of its methods and application , or accept the responsibility to ourselves , and make our own decisions about how science is used . |
| 22 | Grow all our own food and make our own clothes . |
| 23 | And make our own beds but not , not a great deal . |
| 24 | If you want any other benefits , or if you want to stay in SERPS but build on top of it , you will have to pay extra , and make your own arrangements . |
| 25 | I hope you will want to take time and make your own discoveries . |
| 26 | As soon as I 'm awake , I stick the kettle on and make us two cups of tea . |
| 27 | Fellow pilgrims , the wonderful reality of incarnation is a message to us all that God can take the foolish things of this life and make us rich vessels for his use . |
| 28 | May God send us His Holy Spirit and make us courageous followers of Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 29 | Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it … |
| 30 | I 'll have you to a widow in recompense that you should give me thanks for and make you seven years younger , and a rich one . |