Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion .
2 In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general .
3 Only 5O of the Madagascar rain forest presently survives and little remains of the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil .
4 HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs .
5 Like her neighbours , she never goes out in the evenings , and rarely ventures off the estate which is on the edge of town .
6 The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding .
7 The plumber smiles broadly as he gathers up his tools and delicately tip-toes between the pools of water .
8 He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail .
9 The anxiety and anger is then taken away and suddenly erupts in the family environment , placing stress on other members of the household .
10 It is assumed that a claim is limited to £5,000 , and so falls within the trial jurisdiction of the district judge , unless it is stated in the particulars that the claim is more .
11 She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive .
12 Its practical bearing follows from these aims ; for by constructing concepts , forms of argument and criteria of evidence which attain some degree of objectivity and universality , political sociology , to the extent that it is diffused through society , has an effect on ideologies and on political consciousness generally , and so contributes to the shaping of political action .
13 If it does not facilitate economic growth and expansion then it limits its capacity to raise taxes and so cuts into the public revenue on which its own power depends .
14 The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future .
15 It lies beside its mother occasionally disengaging from the teat with creamy milk dribbling from the side of its mouth , while she takes a rest and perhaps shifts on the sand to offer her other teat .
16 They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding .
17 The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ .
18 Peggy , her daughter , is at a finishing school in France and only appears during the holidays , and Tony , who 's twenty-one , is away a great deal .
19 The commander himself is not eligible as a target — he usually keeps his head down and only appears over the rim of his armoured command turret to shoot his weapon .
20 Suggestive landscape descriptions , based on the countryside of Alain-Fournier 's childhood ( near Blois , in Loir-et-Cher ) allowed Minton again to delve into his now well-rehearsed repertoire of landscape devices , though unfortunately his original cover design was replaced by another in which the quintessential motif of a figure disappearing down a deserted lane is reduced to a miserable size and merely sits on the front cover like an enlarged postage stamp .
21 The null geodesic , v = constant , starts in region I , passes through the gravitational wave and apparently ends at the singularity .
22 They are based on the very unsystematic police reports about local incidents , and much depends upon the criteria used to identify politically significant disturbances of the peace .
23 It is largely a matter of economics and much hinges on the current price of energy .
24 Such an approach involves less intensive data collection and generally conforms to the managerial form of the organization ( see figure 4.3 ) .
25 , intake operator , is a larger than life character and is extremely popular around the maltings , which is just as well when you see his size ! usually takes the barley samples and generally attends to the drivers .
26 Today , the northern boundary of the savannah runs east-west , just north of the latitude of Khartoum in central Sudan , and generally coincides with the 100mm isohyet .
27 This all seems rather difficult to do when arranging a funeral or cremation , and anyway adds to the practical load .
28 Finally , it is worth mentioning the possibility that the traditional sadness and dejection with which the first crops were cut in Egypt , or the seed was sown in Greece and elsewhere originates in the same unconscious depressive complex .
29 It thus carries a net negative charge and normally operates in the direction of HCO 3 - and Na + extrusion , the drving force being the negative intracellular potential .
30 The negotiation process is an on-going process which commences with the issue of the Information memorandum , passes through the formal negotiating stage to the heads of agreement and normally ends with the detailed negotiation of purchase and sale agreement clauses .
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