Example sentences of "[adj] and [conj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home ownership is high and while unemployment remains a factor , new developments have transformed parts of Stockton . |
| 2 | Neath then won a ruck in Bridgend 's 22 and after Laity had committed two defenders , Barclay had a clear overlap to the corner . |
| 3 | Shildon displayed the confidence of the experienced professional and as Rain relayed the story of Shildon 's investigation into MacQuillan 's business life , Wickham found the impression reinforced . |
| 4 | Well if you did n't there 'd be so much change on the bail that they all start to fall off and there 'd be all one big muddle cos that and as chain coming down that used to come right down into the chain locker to the bottom of the ships . |
| 5 | The response to treatment is usually rapid and if diarrhoea persists coccidiosis should be considered as a complicating factor . |
| 6 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 7 | We avoid areas of very high technology … [ and ] businesses which are highly capital intensive and where decision-making has to be centralised . ’ |
| 8 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 9 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 10 | Coal production in China fell between 1979 and 1981 and although growth has now begun again the level of production in 1983 was below the 1979 peak . |
| 11 | ‘ Quality of childcare and practicality are also important and although cash works out cheapest , it has a serious drawback in that the employer has no control over how the money is being used . |
| 12 | The contribution by human technological developments is relatively small at present but concern arises because radiation from human sources is ever increasing and because humanity has the potential , through accidental releases of radioactivity from nuclear reactors and through nuclear explosions , of creating substantial increases in local , regional and global levels of radioactivity . |
| 13 | So erm , if you think about it , you could say well okay , if the evolution is all about survival of the fittest and if fitness means surviving longer |
| 14 | Endoscopic relief was difficult and because malignancy had not been totally excluded a laparotomy was performed . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're confused and disorientated and as time goes on , the risk is going to grow that they will strand themselves on land because they wo n't be feeding and will become progressively weaker . ’ |
| 16 | 1931 and when war broke out flew with |
| 17 | Notifications give a poor indication of incidence — witness the ‘ increase ’ when the National Health Service was introduced in 1947 and when notification became compulsory . |
| 18 | If Christianity is true and if religion affects culture , then non-Christian religions , whose creeds must at some point involve the denial of some aspect of Christian truth , will reveal cultural problems resulting from inconsistencies which are impossible to reconcile given their religious postulates . |