Example sentences of "and is [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 2 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 3 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 4 | We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment . |
| 5 | Budding is most commonly used to propagate roses ( but is equally successful with other plants ) and is normally carried out in summer . |
| 6 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 7 | Typically such a group starts out as a married couple ; the couple acquire children ; the children grow up , marry and set up nuclear households of their own ; the original household declines in size and is finally wiped out by death . |
| 8 | The design project is aimed at preparing specifications for a complete industrial process and is generally carried out with the co-operation of an industrial sponsor . |
| 9 | The consortium hopes that Greater Manchester , which generates 2700 tonnes of rubbish a day and is fast running out of holes in the ground to dump it in , will be interested . |
| 10 | This can be made from 2-mm ( -in ) hardboard , and is either cut out with a saw or with a heavy-duty craft knife . |
| 11 | In some contexts , and particularly where the document to be served originated abroad , an informal mode of service is used ; typically the document is passed to a local police station , and is either taken round to the defendant 's address or the defendant is invited to call in to collect it . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 13 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 14 | The first of these principles is laid down in Article 5 of the EEC Treaty , which requires Member States to take all appropriate measures to ensure the effectiveness of Community law ; the second principle underlies the constitutional tradition common to the Member States and is also laid down in Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 15 | James Green , right , is twenty and is just starting out in the advertising business . |
| 16 | The position used to be quite clear and is well summed up in what Scott LJ had to say in the wartime case concerning the soap flakes : |
| 17 | But the piece bubbles with character and is well laid out for the medium . |
| 18 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 19 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 20 | Known as the prostatic-specific antigen test , it costs £15 and is currently used by about 20% of GPs . |
| 21 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 22 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 23 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 24 | My wife criticises my clothes and is always going on at me to dress better . |
| 25 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |
| 26 | The film charts her transformation from soulmate to psychopath with relentless logic and a fine eye for creepiness and is only let down by its over-the-top climax . |
| 27 | PCTE was developed by the Commission of the European Communities in 1983 , has been implemented across Europe and is now filtering through to the US . |
| 28 | The well was completed and tested from the Sedco 700 and is now tied back to the Thistle platform . |
| 29 | Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to look at the study in The Financial Times on 6 January which pointed to the fact that the northern region has very much benefited from the economic restructuring of the 1980s and is now coming out of recession faster than any other part of the country , due to the success of the regeneration programmes that the Government have put in place in the region ? |
| 30 | Hun Sen sold out to the Vietnamese , and is now selling out to Thai businessmen as well , it says . |