Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 2 | It is useless for religious understanding to become the exclusive province of theologians and scholars and thereby create an academic enclave which excludes the mass of people whose business is other than theological studies . |
| 3 | " We are delighted to have been awarded full Order off Merit status on the European Tour , and the fact that we are coming to Fulford and thereby preserving an unbroken record of 20 years championship golf in this region , is equally pleasing , " said Paul Vaughan , Sponsorship Director of Whitbread & Company . |
| 4 | As the labour market tightened , faster product wage growth limited the expansion of the backward sector , and thereby ensured an elastic labour supply for the dynamic modern sectors . |
| 5 | James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works . |
| 6 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 7 | If they bend too much , the bee responds by moving its wings less strongly and so maintains an optimum speed . |
| 8 | Two-dimensional spaces are particularly easy to visualize and so make an ideal vehicle for introducing the concepts that will be used later in discussing curvature in space–time ( three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension ) . |
| 9 | Practical work is an important part of the education of all engineers and so forms an integral part of all four years of the course . |
| 10 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 11 | The following day the Squadron was told that it was to transfer to pinpoint daylight bombing , and so began an intensive training period of low level flying and combing , although night ops and a day anti-shipping role continued . |
| 12 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 13 | Finally , in this brief introduction , what of the unflattering charge that social anthropology is the ‘ child of imperialism ’ ( some would say bastard ) and so carries an incapacitating stigma ? |
| 14 | The eclecticism of the mid-nineteenth-century architects was of two types : either they applied different styles to different buildings , as did Burn or the Barrys , or they applied motifs derived from different styles to the same building and so produced an original design . |
| 15 | Firm A has a balancing allowance in year 3 of 26.25 and so has its corporation tax reduced by 9.19 ( i.e. 26.25 × 35% ) in that year but ends up with a balancing charge of 23.75 in year 4 and so has an additional tax liability of 8.31 ( i.e. 23.75 × 35% ) in year 4 . |
| 16 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 17 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 18 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 19 | This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental , and potentially fatal , combination of water and electricity . |
| 20 | These verbs are very similar in sense , but it can be maintained that they are not quite synonyms , because shut focuses on the completion of the event , and so suggests an abrupt momentariness which chimes with click.6 In [ 9 ] , the separation of the " shutting " and " clicking " in two clauses means that they are conceived of as separate , though simultaneous events . |
| 21 | In some people , the system makes mistakes and wrongly identifies an innocent substance as an invader . |
| 22 | There are sound anatomical reasons for this — the distance of the penis from the anus militates against direct infection from that source , and the ‘ external ’ nature of the penis makes it more easy to keep clean and perhaps abort an early infection . |
| 23 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 24 | But he lay quite dead to her and only made an irritated noise and shoved her when she started stroking his arm , for he had got what he wanted . |
| 25 | In the first place it was necessary to establish and constantly confirm an appropriate canon and pantheon as the basis for scholarly work . |
| 26 | The fish was revived by being placed back in the water , and literally given an underwater lip-to-lip kiss of life … |
| 27 | Will the Treasury guarantee the long term investment programme and not require an eight per cent return from Railtrack on such investment ? |
| 28 | She calls on us to ‘ document the diversity of women 's experience , and not reify an essential argument about gender ’ ( 1985 : 179 ) . |
| 29 | And not having an appetising recipe for tinned peas , I turned for inspiration to the PM 's love of curry . |
| 30 | Your ruler , Mercury , turns retrograde on the 11th which means that from this point you must be prepared to sit certain situations out and not to expect an immediate response from people . |