Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , and his team hope to go 20 times better and develop a cable which will transmit ten billion pulses , or two million simultaneous telephone calls . |
| 2 | The acoustic device , a ‘ pinger ’ , is attached to fishing nets and emits a signal which can be picked up by a submarine . |
| 3 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 4 | I replied that I wanted a detector , not a wand to wave around , but after visiting the shop and seeing a demonstration I must admit that I started to become interested . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , we can not blame the system altogether , as many people do n't think ahead and make the provision they could for a reasonable income in retirement . |
| 6 | Horses soon get used to electric fencing if introduced to it sensibly ; once they have touched it with their noses and realised the outcome they will stay well clear . . |
| 7 | He put one hand out ; she put out hers and gripped his forearm , looked up briefly and made a noise which might have been " thanks " , and went on working at the strap of her shoe . |
| 8 | Only so will children be sure to get a proper grounding in science , mathematics and music ; only so will children with special educational needs be identified and given the help they must have . |
| 9 | If Father Barnes took it into his head to ring and got no reply he 'd probably come round to see if Berowne was all right . |
| 10 | At the most he dropped hints that if I did my job and toed the line he would look after me . ’ |
| 11 | Then , on this background , he paints the portrait and adds a setting which may be indeterminate shades , or room details , or even a landscape . |
| 12 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 13 | This Is the Life by Joseph O'Neill ( Faber , £4.99 ) — The paths of a failed lawyer and a highly successful one cross when the latter encounters matrimonial difficulties and needs a solicitor who will do what he is told without asking too many questions . |
| 14 | If we make the laws simpler and eliminate the ambiguity it would allow the referee to be more consistent in refereeing the line-out ’ , said NZRFU chairman Eddie Tonks . |
| 15 | Apart from their requirement to be helped to return and redevelop a career which will be considered later their needs are little different from other employees . |
| 16 | Alexandra bought herself stout countrywomen 's boots in Bodmin and found a dressmaker who would copy Mrs McPhee in thick , practical tweed for her forays around her yard and fields . |
| 17 | He says that it is unethical to produce and market a drug which would harm the patient or a foetus . |
| 18 | Consequently , the United States has tended to be most vociferous about a ‘ peace process ’ when this has excluded the Soviet Union , and promised a solution which would strengthen American influence in the region . |
| 19 | Mr Barwise-Munro continued : ‘ We 've gone totally backwards and created a situation we should not be proud of — a third of all calf deaths occur at birth . ’ |
| 20 | Therefore , they decided to put their energy into a battle they could only lose , and not just because of television but also because they did so little on their own account to improve the cinemas , and to provide an environment which would lure potential audiences away from their increasingly comfortable homes . |
| 21 | Taking a step forward , she saw that by crossing to the side of the compound and climbing the fence she would be able to get back round to the entrance . |
| 22 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 23 | And to a large extent the subsequent history of theology has been determined by the struggle to find the balance between them and to chart a course which will take proper cognisance both of the demands of the inner human self and of the need to hear and recognise the voice that speaks to us from beyond ourselves . |
| 24 | Instead , he berates her and describes the misery she might expect as a beggar . |
| 25 | Foggerty , curious , asked Sam whether it was true that Nutty was continuing with her captaincy of a tetrathlon team : ‘ That fellow called with those pistols and told the head he 'd come to train them or something . |
| 26 | and told the truth you 'd be believed at once . |
| 27 | I put on my shoes and jacket which I had been asked to take off and told the doctor I would visit her another time . |
| 28 | She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker . |
| 29 | So much torrential rain fell overnight and throughout the day of the finals that the organisers decided to dispense with scrums and let the team who would have had the scrum take a free-kick instead . |
| 30 | The clarity of formal rules — if the rules are clear , specific and cover every eventuality there would be no question of them being open to interpretation . |