Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no answer , and it was a complete answer ; Edouard , recognising something of Jean-Paul in the implacability of the reply , hearing in it , too , –hat note of bland stubbornness with which some of his workmen in the Loire would resist argument and change with an age-old peasant resilience , sighed and decided it might be wiser to leave the subject there . |
| 2 | If you can find a Porsche centre able to demonstrate an RS to you , put some time aside and insist on an experienced specialist . |
| 3 | Strategies of looking , in turn , break down this process and insist upon an adequate period of delay so that the offerings which emerge are firmly anchored within the work . |
| 4 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 5 | The Greiner administration , which had lost its tiny majority because of Metherell 's earlier decision to leave the Liberal Party and sit as an independent , then recovered its position when the Liberal candidate won the by-election in Metherell 's former seat . |
| 6 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 7 | I find it hard to think of any more splendid compensation than conferment of the power to transfer a very large sum of money from a newspaper which I dislike and despise to an organisation or institution which I love and admire . |
| 8 | The political skills you have to increase your power and influence within an organization . |
| 9 | Just as the scathing desperation of a band 's early days helps fuel the sentiment and connect with an audience in a similar position , then a band 's later lifestyle has no connection with the audience who , quite naturally , do n't give a damn about the problems of being pop stars . |
| 10 | Apply a warm khaki-green on the browbone , rounding down to the outside corner of the eye , and highlight with an orangy glow just under the arch of the eyebrow . |
| 11 | They can sit at their big desks and contemplate with an exquisite joy how everything is now being put to a good use . |
| 12 | Gen. Blagoje Adzic , the hardline JNA Chief of Staff , vowed in a television appearance on July 2 to establish control and bring to an end the war which he said had been forced upon the army . |
| 13 | On the far side of a beaver dam , clouds of dragonflies hover and swerve above an escaping tumble of water . |
| 14 | So , the economic , philosophical and biological criticism of Marxism all point in the same direction : that though ‘ muddled Mr Owen ’ was , of course , wrong in supposing that sweet reasonableness and an appeal to the best in human nature would , following the organisation into general unions of workers in productive industry , enable them to take control of it ; and further , by thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , remove its evils and usher in an era of plenty and universal happiness , he was not wrong because a clear-sighted Mr Marx 's alternative was right . |
| 15 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 16 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 17 | Enough to have Jay fly home on the wings of Peter Pan and sleep like an angel . |
| 18 | Here users tend to come from a wide variety of backgrounds , and press for an equally wide range of requirements . |
| 19 | He was to express the presbytery 's grave concern over certain aspects of the handling of these cases and press for an urgent review of procedure in suspected child abuse cases . |
| 20 | Dampen the edge of the buckram and bring the turning allowance of pelmet fabric over , and press with an iron to bond together , snipping the allowance to the reinforcement stitching on inward corners , and around all other curves to allow the fabric to spread . |
| 21 | Defensive routines exist ; they are undiscussable ; they proliferate and grow in an underground manner ; the social pollution is hard to identify until something occurs that blows things open . |
| 22 | Users wanting to upgrade their VAX machines to Alpha simply take out their VAX board and slip in an Alpha one . |
| 23 | Brush aubergines with half a tablespoon of the olive oil and place on an oiled baking sheet . |
| 24 | Cut out six 11cm ( 4½in ) rounds of pastry and place on an edged baking tray . |
| 25 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 26 | Try mixing a gallon of fresh seawater , and test for an increase in nitrates . |
| 27 | Because of their different masses the base states would move at slightly different velocities and mix in an oscillatory fashion , producing first one type of neutrino and then another . |
| 28 | Where rainwater ‘ soakaways ’ are used , they should be at least 5m ( 16ft 6in ) from the foundations , and consist of an excavated pit not less than a 1m cube filled with gravel and surrounded by silt , sand and gravel . |
| 29 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 30 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |