Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frontages were the work of the architects and they worked not in new styles but in revival styles — Gothic , classical , Renaissance , baroque — to comfort and reassure those concerned about the newness of it all . |
| 2 | HEARSAY-II , in the sequential central processor paradigm , designed specific strategies to detect and affect such global properties of the search space . |
| 3 | Some time that same day , or the following one , the new Prime Minister has entrusted some study of strategy , or some strategic study of something else , to an outside expert — and by the 7th , as we know from Summerchild 's first letter , Wilson has somehow been persuaded to staff and service this new operation through the Government Commission . |
| 4 | ‘ They are not ! ’ she protested , locking her wrists together when her hands seemed about to flutter up and cover those very eyes from his probing gaze . |
| 5 | Such assessments may help to identify supports which can sustain and enhance this basic capacity of an elder . |
| 6 | ‘ How dare you stand there and make these sweeping statements ? |
| 7 | The dual purposes of this chapter are to describe and explain this major division in the distribution of resources in old age . |
| 8 | But by the late first century , a patriarchal family-oriented Christianity began to counteract and repress this anti-familial and egalitarian construction of celibacy . |
| 9 | He should get out and earn some decent money . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case you and your wife must come and eat some simple dervish dishes with me and my family . ’ |
| 11 | Even when he is at his most appreciative , there is always the faint suspicion that he might suddenly turn and deliver some withering comment . |
| 12 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 13 | Forever Onward through contraceptive devices and old sticks , carrying the good words to new and freshly rotting society , signalling the path of Entertaining Effervescence and weaving artistic patterns of dirty foam while endeavouring to avoid and repel all hellish floating things that do seek to sink its buoyant ideals . |
| 14 | When one attempts to describe and discuss this elusive concept of community care , one is immediately beset by the range and variety of the situations in which old people find themselves , and of the provision which is made by formal and informal carers in different areas . |
| 15 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 16 | Definitely bring some of that in remind me wo n't you , next week to go and buy some silly string |
| 17 | Thought I 'd go and buy some silly string , next week , remind me . |
| 18 | Erm , yes I 'm going to try and buy some plain ones , you know her , you know her navy blue ones |
| 19 | because if you 've bought first class stamps and you 've got a load of them then you have n't got to go and buy those tuppeny P pieces to put on . |
| 20 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 21 | A dozen Valences of those days were among the host of drafted hive gangs and planetary troopers who fought their way across the ash wastes , spearheaded by a company of Space Marines , to relieve and purge those ravaged hives , which ever since had loomed abandoned like smashed skulls . |
| 22 | Very rich flora here includes fairyflax , viper 's bugloss , autumnal hawkbit , sand sedge , pyramidal orchid and the marsh orchids which create a truly magnificent display in June , when the wild flower enthusiasts and others flock to witness and photograph this rare pictorial scene . |
| 23 | Do come along and enjoy this splendid event . |
| 24 | Sadly , the reporter despatched to attend and describe this promising event was quite unable to find it . |
| 25 | Roland felt a huge irritability mounting inside himself , mild though he knew himself to be , compounded of distress at hearing Lady Bailey 's faded voice stammer across Randolph Henry Ash 's prose , which sang in his head , reconstituted , and also of frustration because he could not seize and explore these folded paper time-bombs . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd better go and convene this damn meeting . |
| 27 | A new book , Letts Guide to Orchids of the World , looks at 450 different species , with guidelines on how to identify and cultivate these fascinating flowers , and is illustrated with over 500 colour photographs and line drawings . |
| 28 | If they do so , they are making decisions which they have no right to make , because it is the doctor 's obligation to save life not take it , and the parents ' duty to stand by their children from the day they are born or , if this is not feasible , for society itself to step in and shoulder this ultimate demand upon it . |
| 29 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 30 | NCVQ , which has an overall responsibility to reform and rationalise all vocational qualifications in England , Wales and Northern Ireland exercises essentially an accrediting role through recognising as NVQs those qualifications which meet its criteria . |