Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 2 | Here synthesis has been used to clarify the structure of this material and thence show the biosynthetic relationship of haem d 1 to other families of the ‘ pigments of life ’ . |
| 3 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |
| 4 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 5 | prepare detailed specifications of plant items and thereby become a discerning and knowledgeable purchaser of equipment and services ; |
| 6 | By 1846 he was deeply worried by the likely effects of free trade on monetary policy , and in two letters to the Standard he argued that , by increasing the demand for imports , free trade would precipitate an outflow of gold and thereby provoke a monetary crisis . |
| 7 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 8 | On this you can balance extractive crops with fertility-building leys , grazing with cutting , and thereby keep the individual fields in balance with the overall potential of the land . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the same meeting an asylum convention was signed by all the members except Denmark under which each asylum case would be handled by only one member-state and thereby end the so-called " orbiting " of refugees from one country to another . |
| 11 | The fences hold no fears for this big fellow and he has a marvellous chance according to his trainer of making it two in a row and thereby join a small but privileged group . |
| 12 | The keys were organised in such a way to prevent the typist from typing too quickly and thereby prevent the mechanically-operated rods of the typewriter from sticking . |
| 13 | Physical skills such as slow breathing or chewing gum can reduce the heart rate and thereby lessen the automatic appraisal of the stressor as threatening . |
| 14 | For in that case , the elaborate precautions to avoid eye contact could be read as a suspicion of his motives and thereby create a second order of virtual offence . |
| 15 | This new department , specifically created to raise the profile and thereby create a stronger image for the HCIMA , is working towards greater awareness of the Association and its activities , to promote membership , introduce new ( and enhance existing ) services , and to advise and assist all departments and branches to ensure the HCIMA is market and member led . |
| 16 | Therefore given the sentence ‘ John found the dog ’ , a parse may be used to determine the subject and object of the verb and thereby create a semantic representation of who found what . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This finding makes it possible to identify with some degree of certainty those students who are unlikely to graduate , and thereby allow the necessary resources to be targeted on these potential non-graduates . |
| 19 | It was also suggested that he was using Interior Ministry files to discredit political opponents , and thereby promote the Czechoslovakian People 's Party to which he belonged , in the lead-up to the June elections . |
| 20 | The child may rationalise the situation by saying that the family is the only family he or she knows and thereby acquire a psychic balance . |
| 21 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 22 | Retroviruses displaying antibody fragments might also be used to retain the retrovirus in the vicinity of a tumour , and thereby reduce the systemic spread of recombinant retroviruses . |
| 23 | The fine analysis of the DH sites upstream of the Ea gene has been hampered by the presence of repetitive/unstable sequences making them difficult to subclone , and thereby reduce the upstream regions to an absolute minimum as in the β-Globin LCR studies ( 14 ) . |
| 24 | Chris and Owen often indulge in brief physical exchanges apparently designed to communicate acceptance and friendliness and thereby reinforce the consensual nature of social control . |
| 25 | If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder . |
| 26 | To inquire into and thereby establish the fullest possible account and the civil liberties implications of the role of the police , the police authorities and the criminal courts in the events arising from and relating to the NUM dispute which began in March 1984 ( see NCCL Report 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 28 | The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery . |
| 29 | He had beaten the communists in the race to appropriate the resistance and thereby ensure a legitimate power base . |
| 30 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |