Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 2 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 3 | Substances may accumulate and disappear according to the functions which they serve and the stages in the plant 's life cycle . |
| 4 | These proportions are not , in fact , significantly different , statistically speaking , from the proportions based on the same series and calculated according to methods 2 and 3 above , which each give estimates of 53 per cent left hemisphere speech among left handers . |
| 5 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 6 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 7 | Power could be obtained for operating these lifts by means of Oil Engines — which could be started and stopped according to the exigencies of the traffic — without loss or expense of continuous attention and waste of fuel . |
| 8 | A situation in which the creative and artistic endeavours of children are frequently assessed and examined according to externally pre-determined sets of criteria and standards , that ‘ measure the measurable ’ often at the expense of those qualities arts education professes to develop . |
| 9 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 10 | There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days . |
| 11 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 12 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 13 | In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it . |
| 14 | We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life . |
| 15 | As John Allen , chaplain to the Bishop of Chester , put it in an Assize Sermon preached at Chester in April 1682 : " Let us be as zealous and couragious and industrious too , to support , and preserve the Government both in Church and State , as they [ the Whigs and Nonconformists ] are stubbornly bent , and furiously acted to demolish and destroy it : While we have good Laws , for God 's sake , let us live and act according to them ; and let them have their course upon All those , that do violate , affront , and defie them " . |
| 16 | By 1971 , BNB was using a mixture of DC 15 , 16 and 17 grafted on to a DC 14 base and modified according to BNB 's own scheme . |
| 17 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 18 | The social activities of the Councils were numerous and varied according to the locality . |
| 19 | The rise in anal pressure during the manoeuvre was much lower in spinal patients than in controls ( Fig 1 ) and varied according to the level of the spinal lesion . |
| 20 | Ganong ( 1980 ) found that the identification of a phoneme on a continuum between and varied according to whether it was the first phoneme of kiss or gift . |
| 21 | I could hear foreign voices raised in the kitchen and stopped listening to my companions . |
| 22 | She went into the huffs and stopped talking to me . |
| 23 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 24 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 25 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 26 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 27 | Picture cards These might be classified and sorted according to those that look alike , those that are of a particular colour or design , etc . |
| 28 | The deal increased Kwik-Fit 's asset base and cut gearing to 20 per cent . |
| 29 | Such a situation is one which allows other countries to put aside international law and act according to their own judgments . |
| 30 | impersonal nature : employees work full time within the impersonal rules and regulations and act according to formal , impersonal procedures ; |