Example sentences of "and [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night . |
| 2 | A practical objection to pre-publication orders , from an ‘ acquisitions ’ point of view , is that they clog up order files and complicate the order process — particularly when titles which have been announced are not actually published . |
| 3 | Such a tax would , they concluded , both ‘ constrain and complicate the government 's ability to manage the economy ’ and ‘ carry some possible risk to incentives and to the encouragement of inflationary wage demands ’ ( Layfield 1976 , App 8:211 ) . |
| 4 | compatibility between resources and outputs the type and level of resources anticipated . |
| 5 | Stroke and knead the back of the shoulders where muscles tend to get knotted . |
| 6 | She was a strong swimmer , and spent five minutes ploughing her way effortlessly along its length before surfacing to sleek her hair back and knead the water from her eyes . |
| 7 | Details are given of the Clwyd Environmental Forum , which was set up to provide locally active organisations and statutory bodies with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern to the county 's environment and to promote the interchange of information and experience . |
| 8 | Because the environment in which GIS operates is constantly changing ( in terms of software , hardware and the relationships between academic and non-academic practitioners ) it is important that leading players are brought together to share experiences , to report on new application areas and to promote the communication between academic researchers and the end-users of GIS products . |
| 9 | The government is failing both to control the growth of road traffic and to promote the development of new fuel-efficient cars , according to the Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) . |
| 10 | It may be interpreted as a spiritual discipline necessary to preserve our humanity and to promote the service of others . |
| 11 | This mobility probably helped to ‘ legitimise ’ and stabilise the hierarchical structure of social relations , and to promote the ideology of individual career advancement , but it by no means terminated the struggle for collective advancement . |
| 12 | The Tommy Campaign aims to raise £3million this year , it is based at St. Thomas 's Hospital , London , and its objectives are to help babies to be born healthy and to promote the value of parenthood . |
| 13 | NCp7 has been found to bind to strong stop cDNA , the initial product of reverse transcription , and to promote the annealing of this cDNA to HIV-1 RNA corresponding to the 3' end of the genome . |
| 14 | In 1986 the IBA set up Committee 20 to promote discussion on cultural property and to promote the harmonisation of relevant national and international laws . |
| 15 | well I , I wanted therefore to put take project into the national press and to promote the product , given that that was the larger product in the market place and therefore if you want that would set the standards for the rest of the market place , that 's what I , I felt we needed to do that with the increasing number of competitors moving into market place |
| 16 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |
| 17 | Tendring District Council is staging the ride , which is being sponsored by Kleenex and Colchester Co-op , to raise funds for the RNLI and to promote the district . |
| 18 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 19 | The first attempt on the buttress was delayed for two days because of bad weather , and it took a total of five days to climb the feature , which included a band of loose rock at the base , and reconnoitre the south ridge to the start of a large rock pillar at about 5,900 metres . |
| 20 | To accompany the cross assembler a linker will perform the usual task of allocating addresses to the assembled code modules and attaching the run-time libraries to generate an executable program . |
| 21 | They walked hand in hand through the warm summer dusk , their arms entwined , her head upon his shoulder , listening to the drowsy lullaby of ships ' hooters from the river , and smelling the scent of soft tar upon the roadway . |
| 22 | She averts her eyes and pricks the tear in her tights with one incisive nail . |
| 23 | It is necessary for the researcher to become familiar with a whole neighbourhood , to become aware of the different types of community that formed such a ‘ country ’ and to search the parish registers of neighbouring settlements in ever increasing circles . |
| 24 | These were warrants to remove the children , and to search the house . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd better go and reassure the director that you 're back . |
| 26 | A good dealer might ring later and reassure the client . |
| 27 | As already indicated , the function of these committees is to plan and oversee the form taken by the project within the school in question . |
| 28 | In order to implement and oversee the project as a whole , a Project Coordinating Team was established which consisted of the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources , the Assistant County Librarian ; Education and Special Services ( formerly the Principal Assistant Librarian : Young People and Education ( PAL:YPE ) , the Senior County Inspector ( English ) , and the Tutor in Charge , County Language and Reading Centre , Essex Institute ( Brentwood ) . |
| 29 | RUC personnel , however , backed off , allowing these two individuals to come forward and oversee the search of his car . |
| 30 | They thus have an incentive to maximize the number of patients treated , maximize the length of stay , maximize the number of surgical procedures performed , and maximize the number of diagnostic tests carried out and drugs supplied . |