Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [det] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the confusion and stampede that is bound to occur , the young elephants may easily get trampled or crushed . |
| 2 | She saw the tension and fear that was putting lines of stress around the other woman 's eyes and mouth and squeezing her hands into tight , pale fists . |
| 3 | ‘ The uncertainty and debate that is developing is not helpful to the profession as a whole . ’ |
| 4 | And every family had two sources of income : fishing and collecting the flotsam and jetsam that was washed ashore with every tide . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have saved all the cleaning and clearing that 's going on today , but I suppose we simply did what we always do . |
| 6 | Right , President , and a measured approach to responsibilities and trust that is placed in you . |
| 7 | You would n't believe the wheeling and dealing that 's going on . ’ |
| 8 | The spiritual area is concerned with everything in human knowledge or experience that is connected with or derives from a sense of God or of gods . |
| 9 | This is one time when the Powers that Be are not going to pat my head and say all is forgiven — |
| 10 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room ’ , thinks Frodo , and he is clearly right . |
| 12 | Unless … unless they face the truth — the truth ‘ that will make ye free ’ , according to the Bible — which in this case is that the love and/or respect that was earned by the deceased during their lifetime is there for ever in the minds and hearts of those who knew them . |
| 13 | A brief look at the tables will give you an idea of the type of symptoms and detail that is required . |
| 14 | A split in the personality , wherein two or more fairly separate and coherent systems of being exist alternatively in the same person , is different from the split between cognition and affect that is said to produce the schizophrenic 's behaviour . |
| 15 | Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker are all graduates and have each been painting for over 20 years . |
| 16 | His thoughts often centred on the foot of the horse , and he wasted no time in his introductory lecture before remarking on the correlation of structure and function that was exhibited by the frog of the foot . |
| 17 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 18 | As for cleansing and lighting these were regarded as relatively minor details whose provision was hardly important . |