Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 2 | Inside , the rear seat squab can be slid 7in to and fro to give a choice of more rear leg room or extra boot space , and the back rest tilts through 30° . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 4 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 5 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |
| 6 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 7 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 8 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 9 | The idea is to protect American forces overseas from attack by ballistic missiles as soon as possible , and eventually to provide a defence for the United States . |
| 10 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 11 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 12 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 13 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 14 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 15 | It is important to recognise these natural reactions and their effect on groundwater quality , and so to establish a baseline against which contamination can be measured . |
| 16 | This interruption , or interrupt , takes the form of automatically switching the control unit from its current sequence of instructions to a separate sequence of instructions , whose task is to deal with the completion of the transput operation ( and perhaps to initiate a further such operation ) . |
| 17 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 18 | This gives an opportunity for your message to gain more attention from the reader and perhaps to make a deeper impression . |
| 19 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 20 | Those systems are almost infinitely variable , and merely to categorise a system as within the common law or civil law tradition would conceal important differences . |
| 21 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 22 | In general it makes sense to change your tampon several times a day and especially to insert a fresh one before going to bed . |
| 23 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 24 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 25 | They are also charged that on or before Tuesday , March 2 , they conspired at Walford Road and elsewhere to cause an explosion in the UK and with possessing a ‘ quantity of Semtex ’ at the Stoke Newington flat . |
| 26 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 27 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 28 | All of these appointments could be used to help friends and thus to sustain a political interest . |
| 29 | ‘ Therefore my purpose in this book , ’ he writes , ‘ is not to state conclusions but , like a radio interviewer , to ask why and what and how , and thus to re-open a file that has perhaps been prematurely closed . ’ |
| 30 | The biogeographers were in the best position to appreciate the value of Darwin 's new evidence for adaptive evolution , and thus to adopt a genuine ‘ Darwinism ’ . |