Example sentences of "[verb] and [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opportunities are to be maximised and threats either avoided or turned into opportunities ( see Sharplin , 1985 , pp. 54 6 , 190–4. where it is referred to as WOTS-UP analysis ) . |
| 2 | Mr Roger Calvert , an orthopaedic consultant , described the scene of devastation , with severed limbs scattered and passengers still trapped : ‘ Dispassionate is not the word one would use . |
| 3 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 4 | Mrs Eales noted the car Fawcett was driving and police later stopped it . |
| 5 | The instruments that would be needed for communicating echo pictures are no more sophisticated than the instruments that both bats and dolphins already have for echolocating in the first place . |
| 6 | Generally darkness , or weak lighting , was necessary ; then tables rocked , objects moved , lights were seen and things sometimes felt , and messages were rapped out . |
| 7 | Everyone starts talking at once — some of them shouting and others just laughing . |
| 8 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 9 | Sometimes the patient will talk , pouring out problems and anxieties , but more often nothing is said and tears slowly subside into relaxation . |
| 10 | As there are often only half a dozen wash-basins , turns must be arranged and children soon realise that there are too many or not enough children for the basins available . |
| 11 | These courses tended , on the whole , to be externally examined and students only received a certificate if they successfully completed the whole course . |
| 12 | Since the event was well publicised and sponsorships clearly identified , there was nothing secret to be brought out in the open , he told the committee . |
| 13 | He wondered if dry eyes might also be a symbolic message about weeping and tears so asked her if she had been allowed to cry as a child . |
| 14 | In each , list votes would be separately counted and seats separately allotted to parties . |
| 15 | Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle , ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired . |
| 16 | No-one was hurt and engineers immediately set to work making temporary repairs to the hull . |
| 17 | Their momentum has gone but they still creak and boulders still tumble as the flow settles . |
| 18 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 19 | Confidence gained and abilities thus discovered , for example in organising or in public speaking , could be harnessed for wider purposes . |
| 20 | It is easily affected by extremes of temperature , easily overheats and sweats then takes cold . |
| 21 | This dislike of their bodies leads to fasting between the episodes of overeating and sufferers commonly have a sense of failure , low self-esteem and loss of control . |
| 22 | As we shall see , authors vary the handling of reported speech in many ways which depart from the forms which speakers commonly use and children commonly hear . |
| 23 | ‘ ( a ) in satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses properly incurred and payments properly made by the bank or the receiver and of the remuneration of the receiver ; ( b ) in or towards satisfaction of the moneys outstanding and secured by this deed . |
| 24 | ‘ Costs charges and expenses properly incurred and payments properly made … ’ is similar to comparable expressions construed in a number of reported cases . |
| 25 | But that construction would be inconsistent with the reference in clause 9 to ‘ costs … properly incurred and payments properly made , ’ and would be inconsistent with the general duty of a mortgagee in the exercise of his various powers to pay proper regard to the interests of the mortgagor . |
| 26 | Having obtained permission to walk over the land , a group of people divide the area between them ( usually in the squares of a grid marked out in some way on the ground ) , and each person collects and records any finds in their particular area . |
| 27 | She falls in with a tawdry crowd and finds her values jolted and sympathies unwillingly engaged . |
| 28 | Specialist sectors are identified and firms either decide to concentrate on one or two of these or arrange their activities so that they cover the whole range of sectors . |
| 29 | Differences in technique were identified and paintings previously attributed to Rembrandt himself could be discounted . |
| 30 | Consent should not be unreasonably withheld and sub-contractors so employed are referred to as domestic sub-contractors . |