Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complex derivatives of phenols , chlorinated and compounded with an anionic base , have been used widely as glassware agents in the licensed trades until the advent of bisguanides . |
| 2 | Around Chalamont the soil was very difficult to work ( a 10 inch heavy loam over an impermeable clay layer ) and compounded by an extremely high water table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was a study of life in Muncie , Indiana , and typified by an eclecticism of data sources . |
| 5 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 6 | He meant that the deepest and profoundest truth , the truth that ultimately matters and is in the end really worth grasping , can not be of the sort that can be contemplated and appropriated in an attitude of serene detachment . |
| 7 | He does a lot of celebrity after-dinner speaking like Franky Worthington Frank seems to appear in every charity penalty shootout or random presentation at Elland Road before a game , usually in the company of a page three girl and clad in an appalling 70s suit and to massive cheers from the Kop : - ) . |
| 8 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 9 | The form must be completed ‘ without assistance ’ — which is a difficult task for many residents — and witnessed by an authorised health authority officer . |
| 10 | If you can find a Porsche centre able to demonstrate an RS to you , put some time aside and insist on an experienced specialist . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 13 | We have already touched on the question of mixed artificial and daylighting in an earlier chapter . |
| 14 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 15 | The Austro-German bourgeoisie of Vienna and Bohemia turned its back on liberalism , and plunged into an orgy of intolerant romantic nationalism . |
| 16 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 17 | It sharpened body swerve , movement and anticipation , and led to an immediate improvement in results . |
| 18 | Lifting the secrecy curtain subjected the fusion programme to the scrutiny of the scientific community , and led to an infusion of new people and new organisations into the research programme . |
| 19 | The 1973 crisis justified this choice and led to an acceleration of the building programme . |
| 20 | This marked the only occasion when a sequel won a Best Picture Academy Award and led to an ill-advised third instalment in 1991 . |
| 21 | The change caused agencies to re-think their attitude to TV commercials , and led to an increase in animation and product-based films using trick photography . |
| 22 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 23 | A germ found in Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford has resulted in dozens of cases of stomach pains and diarrhoea and led to an order for all drinking water to be boiled before use . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The political skills you have to increase your power and influence within an organization . |
| 29 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 30 | He was unable to repay , and asked for an extension . |