Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the will is usually the only evidence the testator has left of his intentions , where doubts and ambivalences occur they must be resolved without recourse to the person who would have been best qualified to explain them . |
| 2 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 3 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 4 | He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us . |
| 5 | Although families and friends urge them to turn to him and to respond to him , and to receive him . |
| 6 | However , it is interesting to note that during World War I , when soldiers ’ wives received dependants ' allowances totalling a maximum of 17/6d in 1915 and 31/7d by 1918 for a wife and three children ( the average male labourer 's wage in 1918 was £2 ) , the heights and weights of schoolchildren and the infant mortality rate both showed improvement , which would suggest that wives and children found themselves rather better off . |
| 7 | I am sure neither the record company nor Symbols And Instruments share my view , but wait until the mass media gets its claws into the return of the underground . |
| 8 | It is tempting to fantasise that leaders and parties make their reputations through finely tuned arguments in the House of Commons or speeches in far-flung halls . |
| 9 | The data are all around , once teachers and pupils know what to look for . |
| 10 | Children may make a fuss when the limits are set down and insisted on , but there is a great deal of evidence to show that children and teenagers realize their parents are firm because they care ( see page 116 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 12 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 13 | It is sometimes said , as though in defence of this double standard , that spiders and caddises achieve their feats of architecture by ‘ instinct ’ . |
| 14 | BRC frequently relay wrong information ( primarily because they receive wrong information ) , and wider societal divisions ensure that the main mode of transport in Easton , as elsewhere , is reinforced Land Rovers in order to afford occupants some protection from attack , although policemen and women see them as having their own vulnerabilities . |
| 15 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 16 | Er I mean I do n't think you want to spend hours and hours and hours doing it , but but , but |
| 17 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 18 | He had a pond dug for them , so pretty and sweet , surrounded by bullrushes with a delicate arched bridge and floating with water lilies — Not realising that a real dragon needs a whole ocean to sport in , needs the spume of the white capped waves , needs the great storms and clanging icebergs , needs the coral islands of the southern seas , needs the dark rains and winds and currents to make its blood flow green and its whiskers curl ferociously . |
| 19 | I mean , it 's not a great , from a computing point of view , it 's not great having some erm you know vast faceless organisation which is going to make sure everything 's alright , because it means that when something goes wrong , it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get it sorted out , because you have to fill in a form in triplicate , get it signed |
| 20 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 21 | The snow had stopped , and wheel-tracks and hoof-marks marred its whiteness . |
| 22 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 23 | In theory , film is the most powerful advertising medium , because it can successfully integrate words and sounds and pictures to achieve its effect . |
| 24 | Moths and bugs and spiders conceal themselves in crannies of the bark . |
| 25 | When the housekeeper had gone Luce was about to push the tray aside when the appetising smell of beef and peppers and tomatoes stayed her hand . |
| 26 | But meanwhile the OK Corral continued , and it was keeper of her own wild troop of horses , whom she knew how to handle , unlike some of the sharpshooters and champions and wildmen exhibiting their prowess . |
| 27 | Urban land enjoying immunities was confiscated and artisans and traders living there were included in the towns ’ tax-paying rolls . |
| 28 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 29 | I 've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead , and fowls and beasts to get them started again . |
| 30 | If fleas or mites persist they can be easily dealt with by a fly spray . |