Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 3 | In 1884 Queen Victoria published More Leaves from a Journal of our Life in the Highlands , dedicated to John Brown , and planned to publish a memoir , a ‘ Life of John Brown ’ , but the household managed to prevent it . |
| 4 | I filled a notebook with names and stories about the Revolution and planned to write a book in which all my favourites would appear . |
| 5 | On the same day two of Spain 's leading private electricity companies ( Iberduero SA and Hidroeléctrica Española SA ) announced plans to merge to compete with the state-owned ENDESA ( Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA ) , in a move welcomed by the government which was aiming to reorganize the power industry and planned to introduce a new national energy plan by the end of July . |
| 6 | Although a minority have wanted and planned having a baby , most have not intended to get pregnant , at least not consciously . |
| 7 | You can pick out some music and crack open a decent bottle . |
| 8 | Elderly people , with those in later middle age , are more likely to be shocked or outraged by sexual practices which they consider undesirable — and tend to see a wider range of sexual practices as such . |
| 9 | These are usually encrusting species , and tend to have a convoluted and ridged polypary , with far fewer individual polyps than Sarcophytum . |
| 10 | However , it is unfortunately true that many unconventional forms of service can be relatively inconvenient for users and tend to have a romantic , if empirically unsound , appeal . |
| 11 | At Carlisle we sell to breeders , beef men and even dairy farmers looking for a crossing bull and tend to get a much wider price range . ’ |
| 12 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 13 | The statement confirmed that ministers had discussed a draft resolution concerning NATO 's future and expected to complete a review of the alliance 's political aims by May 1991 . |
| 14 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |
| 15 | Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment . |
| 16 | We had a class composition , My Best Friend , and the girl who was describing me put up her hand and asked to borrow a ruler because she said she 'd have to draw me straight up and down . " |
| 17 | For example , in the case of starting up a machine at a control panel the operator will be given the instructions and asked to provide a verbal commentary as he actuates the various controls and checks the various indications , this is a ‘ talk through ’ . |
| 18 | Informal counselling implies that group members are not seated and asked to discuss a particular topic or situation . |
| 19 | And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act . |
| 20 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 21 | They can be asked to : Improvise spontaneously — in which , for example , they are given a starting point and asked to develop a scene in role . |
| 22 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 23 | Daniel Carey returned to Frizingley as its Chartist Candidate entirely by chance , the gentleman who had originally been selected to fight the by-election having taken up a longish residence in jail on charges of plug-drawing and helping to demolish a workhouse near Rochdale . |
| 24 | Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record . |
| 25 | We will use Britain 's six-month tenure of the Presidency of the Community 's Council of Ministers to make a start on the real tasks that lie ahead : building a prosperous and integrated economy ; correcting the democratic deficit , making Europe work for its citizens , not its institutions ; widening the Community 's membership ; and helping to create a peaceful and stable new world order . |
| 26 | There are many signs that although the new tools for analysis are not simple ones , they are offering exciting insights into the problems of matching readers to texts , and helping to produce a deeper response and more effective learning . |
| 27 | The ‘ air diaphragm ’ of this port has an area equivalent to that of the midrange cone , thus matching its directional characteristics and helping to provide a seamless transition at the crossover . |
| 28 | They registered and avoided using a porter . |
| 29 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 30 | at the time of entering into the Contract with the Carrier the Trader declares to the Carrier a special interest in delivery in the case of loss or damage or of an agreed time limit being exceeded and agrees to pay a surcharge calculated on the amount of that interest , and |