Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1916 and 1927 his quest for intellectual and emotional stability led him to examine another solution : bourgeois culture and bourgeois education . |
| 2 | Satellites and cellular telephones allow us to converse instantaneously from a London street to the Australian outback . |
| 3 | And each experience helps you to mature emotionally . |
| 4 | If , despite this , social and economic pressures lead them to marry , they may find a partner who also needs to avoid close involvement , emotional or physical . |
| 5 | Its small size and durable design allows you to use it in many convenient locations . |
| 6 | ( 135 ) … raising the temperature of some solid and liquid compounds causes them to decompose into their elements ( or oxidize if they are heated in air ) … |
| 7 | They needed to engage more senior and junior counsel to help them to fight what looked like turning into a very long legal battle . |
| 8 | His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain . |
| 9 | Recent field studies of the extant great apes by Wrangham , MacKinnon , and Dian Fossey allow us to formulate new models of the relations between social organization and ecology of these species and to present them in terms of the reproductive and social strategies of individuals . |
| 10 | Strong belief in the virtues of stylistic and semantic consistency urge us to keep kindness and sword-strokes , loved women and bestridden horses , in separate mental compartments . |
| 11 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |
| 12 | Both the nurses and I were impressed by the speed of action of the remedy , and this experience stimulated me to look into homoeopathy more seriously . |
| 13 | Many Fine Art graduates take up professional practice as artists , and this course encourages them to consider their role as artists in the community by providing opportunities for short-term placements outside the Faculty . |
| 14 | And this government wants it to carry on that way . ’ |
| 15 | He was positive in all he did and this approach helped us to win many games against the clock or the weather . |
| 16 | A balance is therefore established between what we are losing and what we are gaining , and this balance enables us to view our losses with a reasonable degree of calmness . |
| 17 | An in-house lawyer is usually better placed than an outside lawyer to give the advice which will most benefit his client ; he should have sufficient knowledge of his employer 's structure , resources and commercial objectives to enable him to give advice geared specifically to his client 's needs , which will not always be the same as the ‘ standard ’ legal advice . |
| 18 | Lévi-Strauss sought to demonstrate that similar oppositions operate in kinship and mythic systems enabling him to compare apparently unlike kinship systems and myths from different cultures and show the structural continuity of mythemes , and kin relationships , across what are , at first sight , very different cultures . |
| 19 | And social awareness enables them to create opportunities and neutralize opposition more skilfully . |
| 20 | The massive evidence of the repetition of first- and second-person pronouns entitles us to describe the Sonnets as moving forwards and backwards between I and Thou . |
| 21 | She has the rare gift of being able to take a joke against herself , and her command of words and easy rapport enable her to come up with a quick response to most situations . |
| 22 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1988 , Islander sailed from Hythe Marina Village bound for southern Norway , but the light winds and limited time caused her to lower her sights and she shaped a course for the Limfjord at the southern end of Jutland . |
| 24 | Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications . |
| 25 | You will find crockery and electric kettle to enable you to make a hot drink . |
| 26 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |
| 27 | A sea passage of over 200 kilometres from mainland Asia and hostile terrain enabled her to develop more or less free of some of the pressures encouraged by closer geographical proximity — for example , population movements and territorial aggression — and fostered cultural and racial homogeneity . |
| 28 | When plants are cleared from an ecosystem effects animals as it reduces their food resources and thereby creating competition and by sometimes cutting down their shelter and natural habitat forcing them to move to areas where they ca n't survive . |
| 29 | This is the body 's sudden and natural response to prepare us to cope with sudden threat . |
| 30 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |