Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Writing an accurate and properly assessed accident report is by far the most difficult part of the investigator 's task , but it is the investigator 's only end-product .
32 the skills enabling pupils to put forward ( and interpret ) clear and properly supported statements of personal feeling , opinion or viewpoint ;
33 The yawning attitude — " Well , I must go and do some work , I suppose " — can bring down students with good innate ability , while a steady and properly constructed programme can allow those with only mediocre skill to maintain an excellent standard , and to have more free and unencumbered time for the social and sporting facets of a full college life .
34 There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . "
35 ‘ I 'll always be a supporter of a strong , independent and properly funded BBC .
36 Regular , well-organised and properly established channels of communication between the different agencies need to be set up and maintained , both on a case-by-case basis and at a higher managerial level .
37 Mr Adair said : ‘ A responsible and properly run society needs a system of legal aid to enable those of poor or moderate means to have access to justice . ’
38 And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge .
39 Barth was driven to this not only by his own exceptionally and relentlessly enquiring mind , but also by the shaking of the foundations of the world he had known under the impact of the First World War .
40 So Vaughan contented herself with training as a nurse and avidly reading food books in her spare time .
41 As shown in Fig. 3 , LEC cells expressed E-cadherin and avidly bound LC , whereas few LC attached to L cells lacking cadherins .
42 Its partly diurnal habits make this the most familiar of the six smaller owls of the region , short tail and conspicuously bounding flight .
43 For Burroughs as for Pynchon , conventional plot sequence would confirm the reader within his/her cultural conditioning , hence the importance of discontinuity , shock tactics and surreally destabilizing images .
44 Very often the soil is dry and hungry ( deficient in nutrients ) , especially near evergreens and vigorously rooting hedge species such as privet .
45 The extent of British involvement in the revolt remains a matter of conjecture , but Humphrys and his colleagues warmly supported the candidature of Nadir Khan , Amanullah 's successor , and vigorously opposed Amanullah 's attempt to stage a comeback from his retreat in Kandahar .
46 Israel repeatedly and successfully obstructed America 's will , at no particular cost to itself .
47 We had the foresight to assess the situation and successfully sell case .
48 De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) .
49 Sometimes they resorted to ‘ divide and conquer ’ strategies ( e.g. hiring immigrant labour to undercut white wages ) , they deskilled workers to reduce their craft monopoly , used sympathetic newspapers and journals to disseminate anti-union propaganda and successfully lobbied politicians .
50 The conflict in which the state is supposed to be neutral is about the ability of people to choose and successfully pursue conceptions of the good ( and these include ideals of the good society or world ) .
51 The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world .
52 Britain was probably the most efficiently and successfully mobilized combatant in the Second World War .
53 The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills .
54 In matters small and large he was a shrewd operator , skilfully manipulating the press in advance of his exhibitions , and successfully exerting pressure of local bureaucracy to prevent the sale of land to a chemical company .
55 Some of LIFFE 's products were designed to be complementary with existing and successfully established instruments in the United States : in particular currency futures and options , and interest rate derivatives based on US T-bonds and eurodollars .
56 I risked another Middleditch and luckily caught Bunny at home .
57 Over the next weeks Alexander Haig , the American Secretary of State , shuttled to and fro seeking compromise .
58 WAITERS dash to and fro replenishing baskets of crusty bread as often as you like — a sure sign of a good French brasserie .
59 Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ?
60 Directly or indirectly we could ‘ ask ’ him/her , but our requirement is that an observer acting at a distance can observe what a pupil does and thence infer satisfaction in response .
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