Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since 1969 they have attended some 38,000 incidents and neutralised approximately 4,460 IEDs .
2 Practitioners often feel that the number of methods open to them is limited , but as communications grow and change so new methods develop .
3 Test your water with an ammonia test kit every couple of days and change as much water as often as is necessary to maintain safe levels .
4 Cold inhibits or prevents plant growth and slows down chemical processes in soils , prolonging the period of maturation .
5 The Company 's objectives are to : Manage effectively its existing reserves portfolio ; find and develop efficiently additional reserves which offer significant potential to add value for shareholders ; build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices ; and provide a strong financial base to support its operations .
6 ‘ As industries become more competitive and develop more complex processes , the need to harness the expertise and skills available in our academic institutions becomes vital in order to sharpen our competitive edge , ’ said Robert Atkins , Economy Minister .
7 Many patients habitually use one or two sites and develop hard subcutaneous plaques or disfiguring insulin hypertrophy .
8 How often I have watched , nay studied it , and wasted more honest words upon it than I can [ on ] most men ! …
9 To keep the Moldavians and Gagauzes apart two regiments of USSR Interior Ministry troops were despatched to the Gagauz districts at Snegur 's request on Oct. 28 .
10 Would he have attacked more children at school if he had destroyed only one tower and stabbed only two dolls ?
11 The audience sat in a warm honey glow , drinking tea and eating richly iced cake .
12 He also warned against buying Columbian coffee and eating too many beefburgers and he finished his ‘ don'ts ’ by saying ‘ do n't be buried , be cremated instead ’ , causing much amusement among his audience .
13 The BHF says the best way to slim is by losing just over 1lb a week , reducing energy intake to 1000 calories a day , cutting down on fat and alcohol and eating only moderate salt .
14 Shadow lace is formed by knitting every needle on bed 1 , and knitting only certain needles on bed 2 and transferring all or some of the stitches from bed 2 to bed 1 every so often as required by the design .
15 He and Pinsent designed the Renaissance-style library and laid out formal gardens at I Tatti in 1909–15 , and were invited in 1912 to make alterations to the historic Villa Medici at Fiesole by its owner , the recently widowed Lady Sybil Cutting .
16 Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli .
17 Keogan et al studied 2017 patients referred for chest radiography and recommended more selective use of chest radiography through the application of selection guidelines .
18 Dr Battie believed in avoiding extremes of pleasure or anxiety , and recommended only those occupations which absorbed the patient 's attention without creating strain , such as copying lists of names .
19 Government ministries and departments and state-controlled companies were sometimes more engaged in ‘ turf wars ’ ( ‘ la guerre des administrations ’ ) than in overviewing and collaborating over long-term developments .
20 Three days later , give the pointed end another coat along 2 ft ( 0.6m ) of its length , to protect it to 6 inches ( 15cm ) above ground level , and repeat again three days later so that there are three coats all told .
21 As you do so move your arms backwards over your head , then forward , and repeat as many times as is comfortable .
22 Sitting as straight as possible , raise and lower the towel and repeat as many times as is comfortable .
23 But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent .
24 But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent .
25 There was widespread international sympathy for the mujaheddin as opponents of Soviet invasion : but this obscured the internal , civil war , origins of the conflict and led too few observers to ask what the programme of the tribal insurgents was , not least with regard to women .
26 Every summer , for the month of July , the Goldman caravanserai would come to rest in London , where Milton would refresh his contacts , burnish new friendships and influence even more people .
27 It showed when he was upset when he was mocked by Peter Hain and attacked over Spitting Image at Questions earlier this week .
28 Bring your powers of invention — incredible ideas and a sense of adventure to create and build environmentally friendly machines that really work , for 7 years and upwards with CHRISTIAN WEAVER .
29 The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again .
30 In his inaugural speech to the Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) on July 13 , however , Rabin said that his government would continue to " strengthen and build up Jewish settlement along the confrontation lines , due to their security importance , and in metropolitan Jersualem " .
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