Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be . |
| 2 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 3 | To take a specific example , the statement that a direct consequence of a publicly announced and widely believed monetary policy which aims at holding the unemployment rate at U 1 will be a higher expected rate of inflation does not imply the more extreme view that monetary policy can only reduce unemployment below U * ; to the extent that the authorities increase the money supply at a rate in excess of what was generally anticipated . |
| 4 | From this modest start in 1905 the publication developed into a highly respected and widely read quarterly magazine which Ayliffe edited and to which he contributed until 1947 . |
| 5 | Pride of place in this endeavour was given to systematic and properly grounded empirical investigation . |
| 6 | One respondent was not alone in pleading for ‘ a properly funded and functioning court system and properly paid legal aid ’ . |
| 7 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |
| 8 | The police rapidly destroyed the remnants of the ‘ People 's Will ’ and successfully contained underground activity during the rest of the 1880s . |
| 9 | Much more controversially , it may also be a contempt to ‘ scandalise the court ’ and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary . |
| 10 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
| 11 | There are many species of bacteria of the Bacteroides fragilis group that are able to degrade these substances and thereby release free sulphate which would then become available for utilisation by sulphate reducing bacteria . |
| 12 | The prime object of the society was to secure the adoption of the continental , or Leibnizian , notation for the calculus , in preference to the Newtonian notation then used in England , and thereby to open English mathematics to the eighteenth-century continental developments . |
| 13 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 14 | Max has been found tightly associated with a new partner Mad/Mxil , which points to Max being at the centre of a network of factors whose relative concentrations dictate preferential heterodimerization and thereby control transcriptional activity . |
| 15 | It is an offence under Section 47(2) to do any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression as to the market price or value of any investments if the purpose is to create that impression and thereby induce another person to acquire , dispose of , subscribe for or underwrite those investments or to refrain from doing so or to exercise or refrain from exercising any rights conferred by those investments . |
| 16 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 17 | One of the most interesting effects of the new technology ( significantly called ‘ high ’ ) may be to modify the pure/applied distinction , and thereby bring higher education and industry naturally closer together . |
| 18 | Rational people will predict them and thereby annul any effect they might have on real variables . |
| 19 | The monopolist is normally considered to exploit consumers by charging a high price and thereby destroying some consumer surplus . |
| 20 | Appointed in 1987 , Webster ensured that the CIA kept a relatively low profile and thereby achieved some success in rehabilitating the tarnished image of the agency in the aftermath of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 21 | As with the specific issue of literacy , foreign language teachers have implicitly compared their learners and themselves with educated native-speakers — and thereby created inevitable failure for all but the most exceptional . |
| 22 | Yes it can , if close , humid weather curbs evaporation , allows the temperature of milk to rise , and thereby promotes bacterial production of lactic acid . |
| 23 | It has refused to support proposals for a new draft directive , which would specify that waste be treated as any other commodity , and thereby allowed unrestricted movement . |
| 24 | An experienced accident investigator working for many years in many countries soon gets to know which States are prepared to make considerable efforts to find the true cause of an accident and thereby acquires substantial knowledge of the problems and pitfalls that can be encountered . |
| 25 | In other words , does public investment follow private , and thereby exacerbate such unevenness , or does it act to compensate for the lack of private capital ? |
| 26 | More attention to the hardware and information presentation will yield improved operator support whereas more attention to operator training will minimise the difficulties of interpreting information presentations and thereby making full use of machines ( Singleton , 1967b ) . |
| 27 | After all , as Pasternak said , we are people who meditate upon death and thereby create new life . ’ |
| 28 | Using simple partial equilibrium analysis , and assuming perfectly competitive markets , it can be shown that there are net welfare gains to be had from eliminating NTBs and thereby allow free movement to take place . |
| 29 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 30 | " The Secretary then intimated that he intended to resign and thereby give another Member a chance to act as Secretary . |