Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 2 | Inside , the rear seat squab can be slid 7in to and fro to give a choice of more rear leg room or extra boot space , and the back rest tilts through 30° . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 4 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 5 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |
| 6 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 7 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 8 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 9 | The idea is to protect American forces overseas from attack by ballistic missiles as soon as possible , and eventually to provide a defence for the United States . |
| 10 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 11 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 12 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 13 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 14 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 15 | It is important to recognise these natural reactions and their effect on groundwater quality , and so to establish a baseline against which contamination can be measured . |
| 16 | This interruption , or interrupt , takes the form of automatically switching the control unit from its current sequence of instructions to a separate sequence of instructions , whose task is to deal with the completion of the transput operation ( and perhaps to initiate a further such operation ) . |
| 17 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 18 | This gives an opportunity for your message to gain more attention from the reader and perhaps to make a deeper impression . |
| 19 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 20 | Well er I think that getting away the oh you live in Nottingham , oh fancy that you know , you , you know where you 're starting , you know , everyone either works for Boots or used to work for Boots and , you know , you 've got a rough idea , you , you , you do n't need to go into the oh fancy that you know , all that 's arranged so erm I think i i it 's , i i i it 's the middle of September when we either go to Los Angeles , I think we go to Los Angeles , and fool around Hollywood and San Diego and places and down to see a and then away off to erm Las Vegas and Flagstaff you know about this meteor crater in Flagstaff , that apparently is why you go to Flagstaff tt a meteor came , the meteor crater is there tt and then the Grand Canyon and go through national park which San Francisco and erm spend erm two or three days there and then come back again . |
| 21 | Those systems are almost infinitely variable , and merely to categorise a system as within the common law or civil law tradition would conceal important differences . |
| 22 | It 's a cruel thing and especially to hit a boy on his right hand and then expect him to write with it . |
| 23 | In general it makes sense to change your tampon several times a day and especially to insert a fresh one before going to bed . |
| 24 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 25 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 26 | He started not only to print his addresses or charges but to review books of general interest ; to consider a book on diplomacy and war , and not to lose a chance of holding up the character of Asquith to admiration , or to contrast the laziness and drift of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister with the crusading fervour of a Gladstone . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 28 | We have to look on , more or less helplessly , since our present plan is not to use force and not to promote an incident " . |
| 29 | subject board members are encouraged to view syllabuses and reading lists in this light , and not to undertake a detailed critique of each one ’ . |
| 30 | I was determined to get to the Whitechapel Road to see the George Stubbs Exhibition and not to take a taxi . |