Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 2 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 3 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 4 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 5 | Club-armed Goblins receive a +1 strength bonus and so count as having a strength of 4 . |
| 6 | This robbed us of our president and also meant that Mr Adshead was unable to talk to us . |
| 7 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 8 | The House of Lords has confirmed that " in every case , the magistrates or the jury are called on to ascertain who are the likely readers and then to consider whether the article is likely to deprave and corrupt them " . |
| 9 | Like a human body , the body of your essay is made up of parts : in this case paragraphs and perhaps numbered or titled sections and subsections . |
| 10 | The ferrymaster eyed Corbett 's heavy purse and slyly asked if there was anything else Corbett wished to know . |
| 11 | They allow you to assess the suitability of candidates and also to ensure that the latter have sufficient information on which to base their own decision . |
| 12 | Do a picture , do , do like a series of pictures , yeah , but it 's concentrating on the face but like the eyes and just try and capture a different personality from different looks of the eyes . |
| 13 | Peterson , who lost his own seat , accepted responsibility for the defeat and immediately resigned as provincial Liberal leader . |
| 14 | That is to feed my body through the hole left by the sidescreen until my head collides with whoever is in the passenger 's seat and then wriggle and squeeze my legs down either side of the steering wheel . |
| 15 | He was then , of course , in opposition and particularly asked if I might advise on what would be a sensible housing policy when the Labour Party came to power . |
| 16 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 17 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 18 | Families are usually unable to describe how they function to an outsider and so questions that enquire about this directly are likely to be unhelpful . |
| 19 | After that a bird — the same one or another — fell through the chimney into the grate and then fluttered and banged in terror around the room . |
| 20 | That when you expose great portions of the roof , unsupported , then you increase the possibilities of a roof fall which comes back on through to the supported area of the roof and then injures or kills someone . |
| 21 | Only a year ago the pundits were shaking their heads and gloomily prophesying that the Democrats would never again provide a President . |
| 22 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the consumers themselves and some of the organisations which represent them have fallen into the trap of confusing short-term expediencies with long-term solutions and now find that this focus on concessions may have actually distorted the argument for a decent income in later life . |
| 24 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 25 | Matt was lying on the couch and then went and then I went over and sat on the couch and then Matt tried sa Matt erm pretended he was up to him and started |
| 26 | What the Dutch scientists did next was to supplement the pure pollen regime with various compounds and then see whether diapause could be induced by short daylengths . |
| 27 | I have an idea , however , that he is apt to think out his own operations , try to lay them on without any authorisation from your HQ and then come and offer it to us on a plate . |
| 28 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 29 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 30 | Refurbished the Old Fire Station Arts Centre to provide a daytime cafe and even bar and live music . |