Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price . |
| 2 | This produces early colours that go well with the wax-polished timbers , and accumulates to give the finish a smoothness and richness of texture impossible with more modern paints . |
| 3 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 4 | We travelled first by boat , and planned to spend the night at a hotel on the other side of the lake . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 6 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
| 7 | In 1884 Queen Victoria published More Leaves from a Journal of our Life in the Highlands , dedicated to John Brown , and planned to publish a memoir , a ‘ Life of John Brown ’ , but the household managed to prevent it . |
| 8 | I filled a notebook with names and stories about the Revolution and planned to write a book in which all my favourites would appear . |
| 9 | Garner 's , which won permission to develop the site in 1985 , built 22 bungalows and planned to develop the rest of the site in the same way . |
| 10 | On the same day two of Spain 's leading private electricity companies ( Iberduero SA and Hidroeléctrica Española SA ) announced plans to merge to compete with the state-owned ENDESA ( Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA ) , in a move welcomed by the government which was aiming to reorganize the power industry and planned to introduce a new national energy plan by the end of July . |
| 11 | Another drawback is that many census estimates concentrate on natural change ( i.e. the difference between births and deaths ) and tend to ignore the most effective component of population change in the western world , migration . |
| 12 | And the latter do better — and are worth more in the telecoms market place — than ‘ ingenieurs maison ’ , who have not graduated from an engineering or telecoms school , have difficulty in making the all important transition from ‘ technicien ’ to ‘ cadre ’ status , and tend to form the most militantly unionized ‘ lumpenproletariat ’ of say , the DGT or Alcatel . |
| 13 | Elderly people , with those in later middle age , are more likely to be shocked or outraged by sexual practices which they consider undesirable — and tend to see a wider range of sexual practices as such . |
| 14 | They often feel they know it all and tend to give the impression that they are ‘ experts ’ on blacks . |
| 15 | In Russia , any attempt to refuse this right would immediately aid the bourgeoisie of each nationality and tend to push the local working class into its arms . |
| 16 | These are usually encrusting species , and tend to have a convoluted and ridged polypary , with far fewer individual polyps than Sarcophytum . |
| 17 | However , it is unfortunately true that many unconventional forms of service can be relatively inconvenient for users and tend to have a romantic , if empirically unsound , appeal . |
| 18 | Both have washed rinds and a firm texture and tend to have the washed rind garage-cheese smell , as described in the section on soft cheeses ( p69 ) . |
| 19 | At Carlisle we sell to breeders , beef men and even dairy farmers looking for a crossing bull and tend to get a much wider price range . ’ |
| 20 | Cash crops are always ‘ extractive ’ and tend to lower the overall fertility of the farm . |
| 21 | Why t why c why do they not communicate upwards and I think essentially people it in subordinate positions are about managing the impressions others have of them and tend to believe the notion , no matter how true it is , that er that organisations may have a shoot the messenger philosophy , yes ? |
| 22 | Arrows occur at the corners of polygons and tend to make the sides seem concave . |
| 23 | Recent heavy capital expenditure coinciding with the extreme tightening of credit facilities had created a liquidity crisis and led to share the group 's share price falling to a low in January of A$3.30 on the Australian Stock Exchange . |
| 24 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 25 | In practice it is usual for the new Emperor to be the son and heir of the old Emperor , as the Imperial family will use all its power and influence to prepare the way for its own candidate . |
| 26 | The exchange of dissimilar things in the patron-client relationship occurs because the patron offers the qualities that accrue to his superior status , that is , power and influence to help the client while , in return , the latter contributes support and esteem . |
| 27 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 28 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 29 | The statement confirmed that ministers had discussed a draft resolution concerning NATO 's future and expected to complete a review of the alliance 's political aims by May 1991 . |
| 30 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |