Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 2 | ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’ |
| 3 | Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them . |
| 4 | Section 1(3) shows that in order to interpret the word ‘ appropriates ’ ( and thereby to define theft ) , sections 1 to 6 must be read together . |
| 5 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 6 | Perception , therefore , at least in the human domain , seems to involve being able to talk about what we see , hear , or smell , and thereby to entertain beliefs about its objects . |
| 7 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 8 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 9 | The committee also called on the government to formulate long-term fuel-pricing objectives in order to encourage industry to invest in energy-saving measures and thereby to reduce emissions . |
| 10 | He also announced a short-term plan of tax cuts and spending measures designed to stimulate the sluggish economy , and an eight-point strategy of long-term measures designed to improve US society and thereby to enhance US competitiveness . |
| 11 | Stunned and disbelieving , he fought on and on to make Danny breathe , while Lyn , Danny 's mum , rang for a doctor and ambulance . |
| 12 | These men were brought up to do the clerical work of the household , to give the king advice , and eventually to become bishops and perform the duties of royal servants as well as of episcopal pastors in their bishoprics . |
| 13 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |
| 14 | You can camp nearby and use the Cluanie Inn for a hot bar-meal and somewhere to consume beer beside a log fire until they throw you out , but if you have the money why deny yourself a bed for the night ? |
| 15 | It aims to complement work on the south by this researcher , and so to outline aspects of the growing difference after about 1770 between the high-wage industrial north and the poorly-paid ‘ de-industrialising ’ south . |
| 16 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 17 | Exploratory tools allow learners to investigate views of a given domain which are different from theirs and so to examine consequences and conflicts . |
| 18 | Both treatments would enable patients to be awake and so to receive light at their earlier ‘ critical period ’ . |
| 19 | And so to Boggle Hole , seven miles down the coast . |
| 20 | And so to get God 's blessing there 's got ta be a , we 've got ta humble ourself . |
| 21 | A common experiment is to measure the extensional modulus of a piece of wire , for example , and so to verify Hooke 's law . |
| 22 | These were people who saw local opportunities to improve transport for fuel , raw materials and goods and so to make profits for themselves . |
| 23 | These need to be grasped if we are to understand him — and so to make use of him , rather than simply dismissing him as an embittered elitist pessimist . |
| 24 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 25 | And perhaps to placate Rhinehart before he sues , there is a documentary on the enigmatic American author in the pipeline , as well as Diary Of A Teenage Health Freak and a children 's comedy , Jackson Pace . |
| 26 | Writing this whilst hopping up and down to stir lemon marmalade on the stove ( and it seems reluctant to ‘ gel ’ ! ) and to the accompaniment of wonderful J S BACH fugue and prelude and tape . |
| 27 | The partial transparency of the rock allows focussing up and down to assess grain packing . |
| 28 | At the moment nuclear power stations ca n't be turned up and down to meet fluctuations and demand , and the fluctuation from the morning and afternoon peak demand to the middle of the night trough in demand is at least a factor of two to one , but nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down to match that . |
| 29 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 30 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |