Example sentences of "and [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Walking is a prevention against heart and circulatory disorders and may lower blood pressure .
2 First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake .
3 She advises on skin care , particularly in relation to avoiding pressure sores , and may supply sheepskin heel muffs to protect the feet , and sheepskin squares for the patient to sit or lie on .
4 Opiates , particularly diamorphine , are better at relieving anxiety , but diamorphine has an additional advantage in that it is a vasodilator , it unloads the left ventricle and may help heart failure .
5 Sources say the 64-bit P67 is being developed in Israel and may run iAPX-86 software via an emulator .
6 The girl 's father , who was driving , escaped with relatively minor injuries but another passenger , an eight-year-old girl , suffered lacerations to her face and may need plastic surgery .
7 Pupils need an introduction to the topic , and may need background information to appreciate what they will see on site .
8 Birds can only change colour by moulting , and may have breeding plumage as well as a more cryptic pattern ; mammals tend to have fixed coloration , although man ( and woman ) spends millions trying to prove otherwise .
9 Placement costs vary according to need but are likely to involve token payment for an extra helper within the playgroups and may include transport cost and playgroup fees .
10 The health committee , representing all parties , rightly insists the DoH be prepared to respond to shortfalls in funding , widely believed to be a £135 million deficit , and should have contingency funding available to respond to any crises .
11 All lengths of board can be used provided they can support your weight , but when learning the sail should not be larger than 6.0 sq m and should have boom length shorter than 2.00m .
12 Best practice suggests that to comply with the law employers must identify and document the requirements for a position in terms of skills , experience and education , and should apply job analysis techniques to catalogue the essential functions of the post .
13 There was some prospect for change in foreign economic relations , however , and West German businesspeople who visited Pyongyang in September said that the North Korean government was eager to attract foreign investment in high technology and might resume debt interest repayments when the Olympic stadium , costing $5,000 million , had been paid for .
14 He may really have believed that Poles were running the Hungarian rebellion and could carry disaffection north of the Carpathians .
15 Some of the burdens identified recently by business which worry it most are proposals such as the minimum wage and some elements of the social charter which would greatly increase costs and could resurrect union militancy after our years of recent success in which we have created far more harmony and success .
16 Moreover evidence of association between the brothers was relevant to whether the identification of TJ was accurate and could support identification evidence ( Turnbull [ 1977 ] Q.B .
17 One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services .
18 Although traditionally sprinkler systems have been resisted in libraries , it has been shown that modern systems , which open and close individual sprinkler heads in response to temperature rise and fall , would prevent fires developing to the point at which structural collapse would occur , and would restrict water damage to a relatively small area of stack .
19 This was intended to eliminate a source of discrimination against national capital and would tax capital movement encouraged by differences between domestic and foreign interest rates .
20 In the case of the powerpack they have been greatly influenced by the work of Professor Thring and his colleagues , and have proposed a hybrid powerpack which would make the best use of an internal combustion engine and electric motor and would reduce fuel consumption by some 50% and toxic emissions by 80% .
21 According to Microscope , Novell 's idea is to use the Berkeley Unix 4.3-compliant NeXTstep object-oriented display system as a front end to a new NetWare that — like NeXTstep — would be built on top of the Mach Unix kernel from Carnegie Mellon University and would add object technology .
22 More recently , Sidebotham ( 1966 and 1970 ) concluded many years of his own research by proposing , among other things , a Consolidated Capital Fund that would include all capital assets of an authority and would charge fund revenue accounts for the use of those assets .
23 Chris , 24 , is to feature in a major anti-drugs poster campaign and will fit health education visits to schools and factories into his training schedules .
24 The first phase of production is due to begin in late 1996 and will reach peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil and 110 million cubic feet of gas a day .
25 For the alternative view can only be that the assumptions on which that policy is founded are unsound , if only in supposing that employers can and will deliver wage restraint .
26 The service will cater to the UK and international planning community , and will offer title information , free catalogues and a mail order service .
27 Organised by the County Council 's Tourism and Marketing Unit , it takes place at Alvaston Hall near Nantwich on November 13 and will offer expert advice to representatives of local attractions and hotel and conference centres .
28 The research will focus on a representative sample of Community Health Councils and will involve document analysis and interviews with Community Health Council staff and members , heath care purchasers and providers and the general public .
29 The first year will provide the theoretical basis of the course , and will cover foundation material in hardware and software systems .
30 The course work will be approached from the perspective of the 500th anniversary of the evangelisation of the Americas , and will combine communication theory and practice .
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