Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He uses this view to argue how forward-looking companies should act and contrasts strongly the modern global corporation with the ageing multinational corporation . |
| 2 | For archaeologists like David Miles the challenge is to try and piece together the sort of person he was . |
| 3 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 4 | What has happened , in fact , is that Cutler has been forced to try and squeeze together a neo-Benjaminian theory of productive forces and a picture of productive relations which is positively Adorn Ian ! |
| 5 | I suggest we need to try and grasp both the innovations Layton describes and the structures they confronted in terms of their wider political and economic significance . |
| 6 | At the Royal Society launch therefore we convened an impressive group of people who might initiate and carry forward the discussion . |
| 7 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |
| 8 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |
| 9 | The hydroxyl radical can attack and damage almost every molecule found in living cells , including proteins , carbohydrates , lipids , and DNA . |
| 10 | Her paper argues for the importance of standpoint to be taken into account in discussion of fundamentals such as epistemology and ontology , but also suggests that feminist political theories which assume that a conception of the subject is already available need to be complemented by more radical feminist theories ( such as those of Daly or Irigaray ) which criticise and take apart the metaphysical implications inherent in philosophical conceptions of the subject . |
| 11 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 12 | Bill has owned and restored almost every World War Two fighter from P-38s to Spitfires . |
| 13 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 14 | It was not effectively designed as a movement to abolish , still less to limit , mass alcoholism , but to define and set apart the class of those individuals who had demonstrated by their personal force of character that they were distinct from the unrespectable poor . |
| 15 | As he dropped and kicked away the chair the bell rang once . |
| 16 | The Liberals said it must be done and done quickly the Liberals said it must be done and done quickly , get extra tax on the fossil fuels for the sake of the environment . |
| 17 | It could give and take away the rights of states to alter currencies and problems , but handled correctly it can be dealt with properly . |
| 18 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 19 | The um leatherworker came and took away the body very early one morning . |
| 20 | More nobly ornamented and furnished then the castles they replaced , these houses still shared the abysmal sanitation of the latter , with poor privies and rush-strewn floors . |
| 21 | The only change she had made to the property was to build a garage , and after he had unloaded and put away the Jaguar he decided to climb to the top chamber of the mill while it was still light . |
| 22 | Both therefore share the same confidence , which now seems rather questionable , but is typical of the structuralism of the sixties , in the possibility of defining and analyzing scientifically the essential features of literature . |
| 23 | Examples of confusion in defining and acquiring exactly the type of management information which is needed for specific tasks and policies emerged from a widely publicized aspect of management in further education in the 1980s . |
| 24 | ‘ But we realised more work was needed on teaching people how to design and implement effectively the training necessary to fill gaps . ’ |
| 25 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |
| 26 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 27 | Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year . |
| 28 | That may be too sudden a verdict , but if such tours are to continue and flourish then the background planning must be much more evenly balanced . |
| 29 | The problem , therefore , is not Understanding Media ( the title of McLuhan 's great if somewhat misconceived book ) but Understanding Global Capitalism , the system that produces and reproduces both the message and the media that incessantly transmit it . |
| 30 | The overall effect of coupling the Spanish wagon to the international economic train was to destabilize the former , for its antiquated methods and structures could not readily assimilate and apply efficiently the benefits of the latter . |