Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all wearing the special white clothes and hats to protect their faces and bodies , and they were all holding scanners . |
| 2 | A seminar tonight held by Belfast educational psychologists Mary Blease and Bridgeen O'Neill is the first in a series of measures by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to help their members cope . |
| 3 | And therefore people said of her that she would be lucky , for things had begun to grow just as she appeared , buds started to sprout and birds to practise their spring songs . |
| 4 | Clearly , within particular realms of human experience they may play crucial roles in assisting individuals and groups to achieve their ends . |
| 5 | Many meetings help individuals and groups to overcome their particular problems or fulfil an emotional need . |
| 6 | During the famine of 1891–92. the peasants were forced to strip the thatch from their barns and houses to feed their starving livestock . |
| 7 | But not , even after another fifteen years or so , culminating in the winter of discontent and in the fall of Mr Callaghan 's administration , experience enough to induce institutions and attitudes to accommodate themselves . |
| 8 | The National Curriculum 's aims — to give pupils knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes to equip them for the responsibilities and challenges of adult life and tomorrow 's world — will be widely supported . |
| 9 | Caulker had been deeply concerned ( and I am convinced rightly so ) that the conference concentrated its time and discussion on the provision of sophisticated and expensive technology for developing countries , ignoring the need to lay foundations in schools for fundamental growth of knowledge , skills and attitudes to understand them . |
| 10 | LOOK FORWARD to food with zest appeal , meals to make ahead and accessories to transform your home |
| 11 | From Tuesday 18 September until Thursday 20 September we will be On Location in the International Designer Room to advise you on the best colours for make-up and the latest fashions and accessories to enhance your personal look . |
| 12 | But the studio paid out for fringe benefits including personal trainers and chauffeurs to keep them happy . |
| 13 | She leaned forward to stroke the blunt , creamy helmet with rhythmical little movements of her swinging boobs , before rubbing his thick foreskin between thumb and fingers to jerk him off . |
| 14 | The centre will offer customers and software developers the facilities and personnel to convert their applications to run under the Stratus FTX fault-tolerant Unix operating system . |
| 15 | Stratus Computer Inc has opened a Unix Porting and Technical Center in Dublin , Ireland — it will offer customers and software developers the facilities and personnel to convert their applications to run under the Stratus FTX fault-tolerant Unix operating system . |
| 16 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 17 | These forms of sexuality were dependent on specific codes and rituals to give them meaning . |
| 18 | Each country will have three hours and minutes to bowl their 50 overs . |
| 19 | You may need to keep repeating the names of foods and objects to reinforce his awareness , or to recite the order in which a task like cooking or washing up is achieved . |
| 20 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 21 | Short practical courses and study packs designed to enable managers , engineers and researchers to update their knowledge of a range of new technologies . |
| 22 | Rosentiel 's fourth wife Susan spent ten years trying to divorce him , a decade of singular bitterness , involving his perjury and attempts to jail her . |
| 23 | The lease did guarantee the rights of these Hindu residents to cross Tin Bigha into India , but the transfer had nevertheless generated widespread opposition among local Hindus , and attempts to block it through a series of court cases , until in 1990 the Indian Supreme Court ruled the transfer constitutional . |
| 24 | In the introduction , Blake skims over various stylistic approaches and attempts to justify his own . |
| 25 | Despite her faint protests and attempts to ward him off , he was busily stripping off her wet and foul-smelling clothing . |
| 26 | And attempts to mend its ways are running into trouble . |
| 27 | This Keynesian process of governments pumping up demand for commodities has disadvantages : government interest payments grow and attempts to finance them by taxation tend eventually to threaten profits . |
| 28 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 29 | As the colleges sought to establish degree courses other than in teacher education it was naturally towards the humanities that they mainly turned , and attempts to use their existing strengths in those areas , together with opportunities for combined and modularized courses , resulted in often extremely complex proposals . |
| 30 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |