Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made from microwave-friendly materials , it can be used to brew and re-heat coffee quickly and removing the plunger transforms it into a stylish juice jug . |
| 2 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 3 | Darlington 's Polam Hall School was runner-up with a talk entitled The Shape of Things to Come and student Nadine Bell was named best chairman . |
| 4 | To write and record songs and do world tours when I do n't have to is important because that is my , and the band 's , identity . |
| 5 | If your budget ca n't stretch to such luxuries as massaging gadgets and slendering creams , try these tips to tighten and tone slack , unattractive skin . |
| 6 | Some of these pupils will be helped by attention to task lighting and to a suitable position in which to work and view demonstrations . |
| 7 | In fact , men and women are often no longer free to explore and share the many aspects of maleness and femaleness which add texture , richness and depth to work and leisure life . |
| 8 | It is from this perspective that it becomes possible to understand the basis of the distrust of totalizing systems of knowledge which depend upon theory and concepts , so characteristic of Foucault or Lyotard , both of whom have been predominantly concerned with the attempt to isolate and foreground singularity as opposed to universality . |
| 9 | The desire to conceive and bear children is a strong one in many women , not all of them in conventional relationships . |
| 10 | The short-term objectives include : enabling religious broadcasters to meet and share insights and experiences ; helping them to develop programmes which are relevant to their respective cultures ; and examining the forms and models of religious broadcasting authorities in different countries . |
| 11 | Library training co-operatives can undertake to fulfil , at little direct cost , many of the objectives currently fulfilled by external courses — for example , offering staff the chance to meet and exchange views with staff working for other authorities or in different types of libraries ; encouraging professional awareness and commitment to professional values — two of the indirect objectives that are sometimes thought of as the ‘ real ’ value of external course attendance . |
| 12 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 13 | This Conference will provide an opportunity for students and Student Enterprise Officers across Britain to meet and exchange ideas on Enterprise in Higher Education . |
| 14 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 15 | A programme of action research was set up to establish and monitor EPAs . |
| 16 | Spares service stocks means spare components for sale to customers to repair and service products previously sold by the Company or for use under services contracts . |
| 17 | The Social Fund replaced the previous system of additional and urgent needs allowances and grants , which had been an area of supplementary benefit responsive to demand and welfare rights pressure . |
| 18 | As President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania said in 1977 : ‘ The widespread addiction to cement and tin roofs is a kind of mental paralysis . ’ |
| 19 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 20 | They also had relatively easy access to markets for stolen cattle and a reasonable amount of forest land in which to hide and transport animals . |
| 21 | Parts were always going wrong , and half the time computers were out of action as technicians laboriously tried to find and remedy faults . |
| 22 | 2.8 USING A COMPUTER TO FIND AND STORE INFORMATION |
| 23 | The Society of Practitioners of Insolvency 's technical director , Gerry Weiss , said that recent cases were making it easier for administrators to obtain and exchange information . |
| 24 | Contact the MiLAN Return Material Authorization ( RMA ) desk to obtain and RMA number . |
| 25 | 5 How to obtain and store equipment . |
| 26 | Organisations within the parish have continued to flourish and Caroline Arnott 's new children 's page had provided a fillip for the parish magazine . |
| 27 | IBM sees the clustered configurations being used to process and share text , video and image data used in large , complex applications such as astrophysics , climatology and medical imaging . |
| 28 | It is more demanding for a computer to process and store strings than numbers . |
| 29 | Within factories major developments have been the applications of computers to process and production control , the introduction of computer-aided design and draughting ( CAD ) , computer numerically controlled ( CNC ) machine tools , and robots . |
| 30 | Another project , ‘ Developing pupils ’ thinking through topic work ’ , has considered the other dimension of projects and attempted to discover and document teachers ' practice during topic work lessons in primary schools . |