Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 2 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 3 | Inside , the rear seat squab can be slid 7in to and fro to give a choice of more rear leg room or extra boot space , and the back rest tilts through 30° . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After his work in geometry perhaps Hilbert 's greatest wish was to prove the consistency of arithmetic and thereby to resolve the " foundations-crisis " that attracted philosophers such as Bertrand Russell . |
| 7 | This Act aims to make public and thereby to control the use of personal data held on all types of computerised equipment . |
| 8 | Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets . |
| 9 | The objectives of the research are to increase understanding of the problems and difficulties associated with implementing performance management in a single government policy area which straddles central government , local government and a range of statutory agencies ; and to evaluate those changing practices across a spectrum of organisations and thereby to assess the quality of approach in order to disseminate best practice . |
| 10 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |
| 11 | There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order . |
| 12 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 13 | However , Adams and Yellen ( 1976 ) have shown that commodity bundling can be a form of price discrimination , which serves to sort consumers into groups with different demand characteristics and thereby to extend the market . |
| 14 | The aim of the research is to help those with responsibilities for educational provision to meet a significant challenge of the 1990s , namely : to establish systematic and credible systems for assessing the quality of schooling and thereby to improve the learning opportunities of all young people . |
| 15 | Already rationalised by Babbage , it was later given its most explicit and systematic expression by F.W. Taylor , whose project was to eliminate the autonomy of the worker by appropriating for management any remaining knowledge or skill involved in the direct production process , to analyse and codify the components of the labour process and thereby to permit the management to lay down standard rules for the expenditure of labour power . |
| 16 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 17 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |
| 18 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 19 | It is the function of the cognitive analyser to perform in exactly this way and thereby to relate the organism more closely to environmental and social change . |
| 20 | They propose to research the patterns of socialization operating within the evangelical-baptist culture and thereby to investigate the effect on educational achievement of the cluster of variables they expect to uncover as emphasis on bible study and abstention from aspects of secular culture . |
| 21 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 22 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 23 | The overall aim of this audited approach to devolution is to strengthen the quality partnerships between SCOTVEC and centres and thereby to enhance the currency of SCOTVEC awards in the eyes of candidates , parents , employers and other users . |
| 24 | The transferee of a straight bill also acquires the right to notify the carrier of the transfer , and thereby to become the direct obligee of whatever obligations the carrier owed to the transferor of the bill immediately before the notification , including delivery of the goods . |
| 25 | But these earlier records collected here have a freshness of tone , a joyful freedom on the high notes of the lyric soprano 's range , and the adaptability to move from the low tessitura and dramatic style of Sieglinde 's narrative to the tender lyricism of Massenet 's Manon or Puccini 's Angelica , then back again to ‘ Ozean , du Ungeheuer ’ and on to provide the delicacy of touch appropriate to Mozart 's Susanna and Cherubino . |
| 26 | After following Wilton Lane to the north for around ¾ mile the route goes right to Dunsdale Farm and on to meet the B1269 . |
| 27 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 28 | I add a cupful of water from the incubation tank to the jar daily , to gradually adjust the water chemistry to match that of the tank and eventually to dilute the fry 's waste . |
| 29 | The idea is to protect American forces overseas from attack by ballistic missiles as soon as possible , and eventually to provide a defence for the United States . |
| 30 | to the independent companies in Norway , then to command projected stay-behind parties to damage the communications of any invading German forces , and eventually to run the Special Operations Executive . |