Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence , also , the glare and roar of flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way , and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | Although ‘ orthodox ’ theory disregards orthogenesis ( often confusing it with rectilinearity ) the existence of ‘ laws of growth ’ was recognised by Darwin , although he failed to synthesise their role in relation to the environment and vastly overemphasised the power and importance of natural selection . |
| 3 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 4 | This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site . |
| 5 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 6 | Consigned for sale by Alexander Klee , grandson of Paul Klee who was given the painting by Kandinsky in exchange for one of his own , it is a sketch for ‘ Composition VII ’ of 1913 , now in the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow , and widely considered the artist 's most innovative painting of that year . |
| 7 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |
| 9 | They were chatting ; Robyn returned to the hob and nervously added the rest of the ingredients to the sauce . |
| 10 | Owen reached through the branches to the bridle of Isambard 's horse , that stood tossing his head and nervously trampling the path . |
| 11 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 12 | Keep low and vigorously throw the rig across the board ( to the right ) before attempting to sheet in |
| 13 | Egerton Wake became the party 's national agent and vigorously pursued the policy of giving direction to the rest of the movement , through the organization of regional and local conferences . |
| 14 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 15 | In 1962 he returned to Rampur and successfully contested the state seat to become a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly . |
| 16 | The eurypterids are probably allied to the scorpions , which originated in the Silurian or even earlier , and successfully made the transition from the aqueous environment to land . |
| 17 | Troops loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema again disrupted the transition period [ see also p. 39041 ] when a 100-strong force occupied the National Assembly building on Oct. 22 and successfully demanded the unfreezing of the assets of the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , formerly the sole legal party , led by Eyadema , which had been dissolved in August 1991 [ see p. 38379 ] . |
| 18 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 19 | Alone again , Belinda returned to her original plan and successfully reached the chair in the corner of the room , from which she could quietly observe the other guests without too much fear of attracting attention . |
| 20 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 21 | As intended , it was the highlight of the film and successfully reflected the pain endured by long-distance runners . |
| 22 | She was trying to master celestial navigation and I stood beside her as she trapped Altair in the mirror , then delicately and successfully brought the star down to the horizon . |
| 23 | As you can see , if West had led his last spade dummy would have been forced to ruff and successfully play the ace of clubs . |
| 24 | gained credit via APL for up to 50% of the areas of study and successfully completed the assessment schedules for the other 50% of the areas of study |
| 25 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 26 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 27 | Allowing the BBC 's appeal , the Vice-Chancellor , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson , sitting with Lords Justices Staughton and Beldam , said the 1988 Copyright Act created rights and remedies for broadcasters not against those who received the programmes , but against those who enabled viewers to receive the transmissions and thereby avoid the viewing fee . |
| 28 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 29 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 30 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |