Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computers follow the same strategy that General Grant followed against the South : do nothing fancy , stay out of trouble , take no risks and just grind the opponent bit by bit , piece by piece and square by square , into the dust . |
| 2 | However , Adams and Yellen ( 1976 ) have shown that commodity bundling can be a form of price discrimination , which serves to sort consumers into groups with different demand characteristics and thereby to extend the market . |
| 3 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 4 | She felt that their use ‘ would elongate the dancers ' silhouettes and thus resemble the figures of Byzantine Saints ’ . |
| 5 | Examples of its use include checking if gaps in the cosmid map are actually covered by YAC or P1 probes , checking for consistent ordering of different types of probes and even to interpret the hybridisation results of multiple-copy probes . |
| 6 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 7 | Using skilled tutors , such as Mary Adams from Cambridge , who shared in the group-listening sessions and then extended the broadcast themes through discussion and supplementary material , the BBC programmes at Harrold and Goldington led directly to longer courses . |
| 8 | Praising the work of non-governmental organizations and implicitly criticizing the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) and other UN agencies , he pointed out that together private and UN agencies were at present providing only a quarter of the minimum monthly food needs . |
| 9 | The ITGWU and the Workers ' Party organized a march of trade union members to picket the County Offices and then crowd the public gallery to watch the meeting , while dockers supporting the protest struck for a day , bringing work in the port to a halt and tying up seven ships . |
| 10 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 11 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 12 | Develop a formal plan : set objectives and policies in relation to the achievement of organisational goals and thereby enable the effective and efficient deployment of resources . |
| 13 | After talks with police in Dundee , STUC general secretary Campbell Christie appealed for pickets to obey union guidelines and not to break the law or block the road . |
| 14 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 15 | By making copies of prehistoric stone implements and then using the copies to cut , scrape and chop different materials ( such as growing crops , bones and hides ) , the patterns of wear formed by these processes can be matched to wear patterns on the original artefacts . |
| 16 | The judges sifted through over 8,000 entries and finally picked the name ‘ Spring Ovation ’ as the winner . |
| 17 | The microcontroller sequentially generates the eight channel output pulses and then raises the CTS ( Clear to Send ) line high for 4.2mS during which time , data can be sent from the host computer . |
| 18 | It is the notion of an artist willing to attempt to maintain traditional ties and yet acknowledging the fact that he can not relax in the security of the past , that art must change . |
| 19 | The smiths formed very close groups based on strong family ties and carefully retained the secret of their craft , including the mystic rituals and the name of their gods . |
| 20 | These Regulations provide the framework for the operation of the Funds and clearly guide the Member States and others , on the EC 's priorities . |
| 21 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 22 | These , so MacDonald and Snowden told their colleagues , must amount to £25–30 millions , the bulk of them to be found out of unemployment charges … only reductions in unemployment payments would satisfy the opposition and resolve the crisis ; yet this would at the same time betray the hopes of the party 's supporters and probably split the party itself … |
| 23 | introduced a championship for Grand Touring ( GT ) cars and strictly speaking the Sports World Car World Championship ceased , although the organizers of the Targa Florio , Le Mans , Nurburgring and Sebring races offered the Challenge Mondiale de Vitesse for Prototype cars . |
| 24 | In consequence , young offenders may take many cars and never face the prospect of a deterrent sentence . ’ |
| 25 | The Men usually came twice a day — once to clean out the Cages and once to feed the eagles . |
| 26 | The only part of the natural world that the US delegation to the Earth Summit seems to be interested in is beavers , and how best to build dams and systematically reinforce the logjams that others are striving to break down . |
| 27 | Before they began treating it , the plucky 5ft 4in runner 's hair fell out , she suffered from massive blood blisters and occasionally lost the sight of one eye . |
| 28 | The children were provided with facts regarding , for example , packaging and recycling opportunities and then used the information to make ‘ hands on ’ choices from a range of consumer goods . |
| 29 | These methods are well suited to computers and often have the advantage that , should an error occur , at worst it lengthens the computations a little . |
| 30 | In Darwinian terms , once again , cats that did this were more likely to maintain their social relationships and thereby derive the benefits that such relationships provide than cats that did not . |