Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest challenge is public education in order to reduce fear and to promote a better understanding of the aims of services . |
| 2 | Begin by stitching the longer length on the left hand side , bringing it under Teddy 's chin and tucking the shorter length under it as it crosses his shoulder . |
| 3 | If you want to tone up your body and develop a better shape there is no doubt that swimming , keep-fit exercises and yoga will help enormously . |
| 4 | Even if the primary focus is the needs of an older person , the counsellor can not afford to ‘ take sides ’ , but should instead aim to help the whole family face up to and develop a wider understanding of the problems and difficulties that exist in old age , and in caring for older people . |
| 5 | But for the whole country to flourish , the richer regions must yield all they could spare to help feed and develop the poorer ; and the manpower , too , must be deployed where it was needed to defend the vulnerable harbours and pirate bases of the north and the west , with all the consequent problems of travel in that wild land of mountain and river . |
| 6 | We ca n't free enough capital to buy new sites and develop the earlier ones as we 'd like . |
| 7 | " To put in repair " is sometimes used and imposes no greater obligation than " to repair " any more than to keep " in repair " , " in good repair " , " in sufficient repair " or " in tenantable repair " ( Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe v McOscar [ 1924 ] 1 KB 716 ) . |
| 8 | Until they improve and can manage without it , patients find that with neutralisation they stay well , living a less restricted lifestyle and eating a wider diet than without it . |
| 9 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 10 | Steve Mungall is moved forward into midfield and plays a blinder . |
| 11 | This 18-year-old rookie averaged 69 over four rounds to win the Zimbabwe Championship some weeks ago and plays a stronger game than his dad , the professional at Wyngate , a posh club in suburban Harare . |
| 12 | He had a miserable life , he came to Paris and led a further miserable life . |
| 13 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 14 | As the years went by , the village of Portlethen grew , partly due to the oil industry , and became a greater commuter catchment area , and better transport links became vital . |
| 15 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 16 | This effect lessened our national productive capacity and placed a higher burden on the primary manufacturing industries like Engineering , Car manufacture , Aircraft makers , in order to keep an increasing number of nonproducers . |
| 17 | But it will reduce the likelihood of those forces re-emerging as a threat to the West and favour a better military balance between the former Soviet republics . |
| 18 | But he does , on the middle-class and moral grounds to be described in chapter , condemn the ostentation of Gatherum Castle belonging to the Duke of Omnium , and favour the older , humbler Matching with its adjacent priory , where the Duke 's heir , Plantagenet Palliser , lives . |
| 19 | This generally works out cheaper , allows you to incorporate photographs and colour and produces a better result . |
| 20 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 21 | It does not follow that potential customers will automatically beat a path to the door of the firms which return home and make no further efforts to build on contacts . |
| 22 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |
| 23 | Ours were led on a policy led planning process which was driven by the needs of , which are clearly identified in the an anti poverty strategy which is designed to protect the services , the jobs , to regenerate the local economy and make a better place to live and for children to grow up in . |
| 24 | The boffins down at War-U-Like have invented a new toy ; a high-powered supa-dupa combat aircraft that can outfly and outblast anything in the air , and make a bigger noise doing it . |
| 25 | Look at plants from all angles to determine how they can be used — maybe you could remove the petals and make a smaller flower with just a few of them ? |
| 26 | The eleventh method , behaviour modification , is less demanding in terms of complex causes and offers a simpler approach to tackling problem people . |
| 27 | This places the emphasis on regulating companies rather than products and offers a wider choice to consumers . |
| 28 | It may act by a novel mechanism and offers a further therapeutic possibility for those who are intolerant of aminosalicylates . |
| 29 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 30 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |