Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations . |
| 2 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 3 | Consider for example : ( 20 ) A : Let's get the kids something B : Okay , but I veto I-C-E C-R-E-A-M-S where B ostentatiously infringes the maxim of Manner ( be perspicuous ) by spelling out the word ice-creams , and thereby conveys to A that B would rather not have ice-cream mentioned directly in the presence of the children , in case they are thereby prompted to demand some . |
| 4 | Other observations suggest that the acid microenvironment , maintained by apical Na + /H + exchange , also contributes H + to this process and thereby assists in VFA absorption . |
| 5 | A tubular form is much more effective and eventually worms with such a shape appeared . |
| 6 | The taciturn Tor falls off his log and eventually complains of painful stomach muscles . |
| 7 | In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general . |
| 8 | Only 5O of the Madagascar rain forest presently survives and little remains of the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil . |
| 9 | Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective . |
| 10 | If the dry desert storm rises in the day and you are inside , protected by walls of concrete and windows framed in steel , you watch as the sun changes white to red and slowly fades into nothing . |
| 11 | HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs . |
| 12 | It begins with the fetid and claustrophobic ‘ Atrocity Exhibition ’ and slowly works towards its grave and deadly conclusion ; the dank and timeless sadness of ‘ The Eternal ’ and the twilight romance of ‘ Decades ’ . |
| 13 | He stands back while Serafin comes into the centre of the room and slowly revolves on his heel . |
| 14 | Rory made left and right turns in quick succession , seemed to go back on himself , seemed at times to be driving blind . |
| 15 | This assumption is not theoretically neutral and arguably derives from a traditional positivist view of law which defines law or legal systems in terms of their effectiveness in establishing ordered behaviour . |
| 16 | Like her neighbours , she never goes out in the evenings , and rarely ventures off the estate which is on the edge of town . |
| 17 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
| 18 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 19 | Since Mr Haynes owns 62% of the group 's equity and gladly confesses to a liking for general publishing , it seems likely that his views on keeping the division will prevail . |
| 20 | The plumber smiles broadly as he gathers up his tools and delicately tip-toes between the pools of water . |
| 21 | He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail . |
| 22 | The anxiety and anger is then taken away and suddenly erupts in the family environment , placing stress on other members of the household . |
| 23 | The mosquito hovers a couple of centimetres from the trunk and suddenly alights in front of the ant . |
| 24 | It introduces non-state actors and so belongs to a new pluralism in International Relations . |
| 25 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 26 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , the means are conceived as really or probably existing , then the speaker feels that there is something real occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event , and so uses to , as in ( 37 ) and ( 38 ) above . |
| 28 | It is also that , even were it not , the reliance on competition between economic units inevitably generates individual/sectional self-interest , and so reproduces in a socialist economy the individualist attitudes and self-seeking practices characteristic of capitalism . |
| 29 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 30 | It is assumed that a claim is limited to £5,000 , and so falls within the trial jurisdiction of the district judge , unless it is stated in the particulars that the claim is more . |