Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 His intention is the cuddly fish that feeds on acorns and sleeps through the winter when nobody wants to go outside and look in their fishpond anyway . ’
2 Scientists say the depletion of the ozone layer could lead to increased skin cancers and cataracts in humans and to crop damage .
3 The poor standard of some marine retailers who sell difficult-to-keep fish and inverts to beginners and do not care for their stock properly
4 The Trust has no endowment and relies on donations and grants to undertake its conservation work on the nunnery , the most complete medieval example of its kind in Scotland and Britain .
5 A slightly more sophisticated system is to put the names , positions and addresses on stencils or to use an addressograph system .
6 Beyond that , there are plans to make the pump pistons and footvalves in plastics and to devise a system so that when the connecting rods are removed they also withdraw the piston and footvalve .
7 This species is quite attractive with a pink and gold shell and feeds upon algae and diatom detritus .
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