Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [noun prp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 2 | Stornoway is a very busy Branch and with its two Mobiles the staff of 34 cater for our customers among the 25,000 or so Lewis and Harris residents . |
| 3 | They will soon ascertain whether or not Gore-Tex and Timberland live up to their much-vaunted specifications . |
| 4 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 5 | Father and I were going to go in there whether or not Balbindor and his son accompanied us . |
| 6 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 7 | The first-rate courses in Norfolk are legion , too , but for a midweek break or longer Sheringham and Royal Cromer , close together on the northern coastline , and Great Yarmouth & Caister and Gorleston , offer a perfect combination for holiday golf . |
| 8 | In education such a policy would improve performance indicators immediately as a much higher percentage of youngsters would then achieve three or more Highers and gain entrance to university ; success all round ! |
| 9 | He is called Jeremy , or Giles , or Piers , or Rupert , or even Harry and by his side is a girl called Camilla , Antonia or Annabel , with splendid teeth , an Alice band in her swept-back hair and a blue quilted Puffa jacket over sensible skirt and shoes . |
| 10 | Britain 's stance on sovereignty has traditionally been less aggressive than many other claimants , such as Argentina and Chile — both of which claim overlapping portions of the British Antarctic Territory — or even Australia and France ( New Scientist , 21 October , 1982 p 140 and 6 January , p 4 ) . |
| 11 | Or maybe Norris and his pals would distract her from this crazed idea of getting air-locked drunk by suggesting a friendly game of cards . |
| 12 | One year he produced a comic sketch called The Magic Hotel or How Tommy and his Uncle Herbert Spent a Quiet Night . |
| 13 | Either the loathsome Mr Sterne had flown out here deliberately to coincide with her lonely holiday , which seemed most unlikely , or else Charles and Lucy had somehow omitted to inform him that Virginia was coming in their place . |
| 14 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 15 | And suddenly Tuppe and Cornelius were in the thick of them . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
| 17 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 18 | These types of criticisms can , however , be extended to most methods of land classification and evaluation , and so Flaherty and Smit ( 1982 ) have proposed a broader-based system in which other parameters valuation , and so Flaherty and Smit ( 1982 ) have proposed a broader-based system in which other parameters including housing , recreation and conservation are included . |
| 19 | These types of criticisms can , however , be extended to most methods of land classification and evaluation , and so Flaherty and Smit ( 1982 ) have proposed a broader-based system in which other parameters valuation , and so Flaherty and Smit ( 1982 ) have proposed a broader-based system in which other parameters including housing , recreation and conservation are included . |
| 20 | AND so Ed and Kath decide to keep mum about Mr Sloane 's murder of their father , preferring to share him , turn and turn about , six months at a time , Ed 's turn first since Kath is pregnant with Sloane 's child . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to speak to you two in private , ’ he said , and so Joe and I left the pub and walked home with him . |
| 22 | Corinth sent help to Potidaia , the Athenians sent a besieging force , and so Corinth and Athens clashed for the second time . |
| 23 | Think of executive cars and your mind turns to Ford , Vauxhall , Rover , BMW and perhaps Alfa and Lancia . |
| 24 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 25 | ‘ Then probably either Charles Aught or Bill Goody , and perhaps Jack and Miriam … ’ |
| 26 | And only Joshua and Kaleb had any gumption . |
| 27 | The Liberals had powerful grass-roots strength and an historic identity in much of the Scottish Highlands , rural Wales , and especially Devon and Cornwall . |
| 28 | Not only would the Nordic states have to reconsider what their relationships would be to the EEC , they , and especially Denmark and Norway , would be particularly interested in Britain 's relationship with and attitude towards the new organisation . |
| 29 | He warned , however , that some of the ministers , and especially Henderson and Graham , would not accept such economies , and that their resignations would necessitate the resignation of the entire government . |
| 30 | The banks of computers were busy , and together Viktor and Gusev read the long print-outs and the cross-references and the counterchecks on the information . |