Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 2 | Psychologists have observed that in a group composed of men and women , the men usually set the agenda , choose topics for discussion , and tend to answer most of the questions posed during the group discussions . |
| 3 | If the former are sometimes rather abstract and theoretical , the latter often show relatively little concern with trends or issues outside their own field , and tend to draw few parallels . |
| 4 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 5 | Both groups strongly identify with their professional bodies and tend to feel more allegiance to their profession than to their individual employer . |
| 6 | Horses prefer as companions horses that have the same coat colour as themselves , and tend to avoid those that are radically different . |
| 7 | Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other . |
| 8 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 9 | The Finance Minister , Adnan Kahveci said on April 12 that Turkey had spent $45,000,000 so far on relief and expected to spend another $50,000,000 to provide food for refugees . |
| 10 | This may simply be because subjects assumed that the current study was essentially about risk and expected to encounter some particularly dangerous situations . |
| 11 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 12 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 13 | When subjects are interrupted on going to sleep and asked to report any mental activity whatsoever they usually have something to say about what was going on in their minds . |
| 14 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 15 | In state capitals , the standard of museums and of the performing arts is a source of pride , and helping to raise those standards confers prestige and social cachet . |
| 16 | In Iran Rafsanjani had come under strong attack from Khomeini supporters who accused him of siding with America by accepting arms from the Great Satan and helping to get some of their hostages released . |
| 17 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |
| 18 | As early as 1920 , therefore , a special commission on the history of the party and the October revolution was set up and empowered to gather all relevant documentary material — from party archives to the records of the tsarist secret police and the memoirs of participants in the great events . |
| 19 | ‘ He began rejecting his friends and stopped doing any exercise . |
| 20 | Thieves would be unlikely to remove the communications chips because it would be time-consuming and mean disassembling much of the car . |
| 21 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 22 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |
| 23 | The King can not be exonerated from responsibility for the massacre ; he signed the instructions and failed to punish those who were involved . |
| 24 | the judge commented that there is a tendency among some solicitors to put forward grossly inflated percentages and failed to appreciate that to justify a mark-up even as high as 100% required a demonstration that the case was exceptional . |
| 25 | He can claim the return of the price he paid to Y. This claim is based upon a breach of contract by Y in that Y did not have the right to sell the goods and failed to confer any ownership upon his buyer , Z ( see paragraph 7–07 below ) . |
| 26 | Under his expert guidance we have used underwater television extensively in the deep water , and failed to reveal any rotting vegetation or tree trunks . |
| 27 | Sculptors for the most part have ignored the results of the industrial revolution and failed to investigate these fundamental processes of steel-making , engineering and construction . |
| 28 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 29 | A Bedale businessman tried and failed to bring more freight traffic to the limestone line . |
| 30 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |