Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 24-month experiment the crew produced 80% of its own food , the other 20% coming from seed stock and crops grown and stored in the biosphere before its closure . |
| 2 | When I hear the word " tending " I think always of that confident attentiveness to the needs of the machines , the control over work that was unceasing , with half a mind and hands engaged but the looms always demanding attention . |
| 3 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 4 | What the patients need is to have emotional fear and pain acknowledged and expressed through words , tears or in whatever other way they find helpful . |
| 5 | Tea and coffee seen as health hazards too |
| 6 | He was accused of the crime of murder and manslaughter which is reputed odious and atrocious , severely punishable with loss of life and confiscation of the movable property of the committer thereof , that he did upon a day in the previous September unknown with force and violence cast and throw one CHRISTIAN McMILLAN the wife of DONALD McKENZIE in Ellister over a rock at Ellister shore , where they had gone to collect shellfish , into the deep sea where she was immediately drowned and died . |
| 7 | The speed must be correct for each fence and impulsion created as necessary . |
| 8 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 9 | The company apologised for the distress and embarrassment caused and had agreed to pay the princess appropriate damages and all her legal costs . |
| 10 | Orwell 's general contention is clearly correct — inequalities of wealth and income persisted and remained marked during the inter-war years . |
| 11 | Corporate management and planning required that the local authority adapt its internal organisation in order to provide a set of integrated services to the local community . |
| 12 | It appears to be contrary to what the Criminal Law Revision Committee and Parliament intended when they established " dishonesty " in the 1968 Act . |
| 13 | Lewis 's branch resolved not to remit funds to London Head Office until a full investigation of its financial affairs had been carried out and , when this proposal was accepted and undertaken on behalf of the Executive Committee and reforms proposed and instituted , refused to accept these and severed its connection with Wilson 's organisation . |
| 14 | It should be noted that only modules of the correct type and subtype entered after the models installation will be effected by the model , not those entered prior to its installation . |
| 15 | The Conservative Education Association also condemned the government plan and opposition mounted when it was learned that the government planned to cut education spending in London by 40 per cent following abolition of the ILEA . |
| 16 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 17 | 1 sweet pepper ( green or red ) with core and seeds removed and flesh finely shredded |
| 18 | We see the father who fails to meet his expected role as protector and confidant regarded as indifferent and uncaring : |
| 19 | To the Annual Conference of the union in September 1915 he reported that " the Government had commandeered the Camp " , and that , when they eventually handed it back , reinstated as agricultural land , which he doubted that they ever would , compensation and rent paid or payable would ensure that " the maintenance of aliens at Eastcote would have cost the Union not a single farthing " and provide a useful start to its programme of Homes for Seamen . |
| 20 | As she prayed , Nicandra squinted through her fingers to watch the exquisite bread and butter swallowed and followed by gentle sips of tea on her mother 's part and grosser gulps from her father 's side of the bed . |
| 21 | Both clerk and dwarf rolled and scrabbled in the mud . |
| 22 | Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . |
| 23 | [ Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . ] |
| 24 | [ Our fees are based upon the degree of responsibility and skill involved and the time necessarily occupied on the work , plus the reimbursement of our outlays . ] |
| 25 | In the recent film Return of the Jedi , for example , the imaginative licence of science fiction is combined with a reverence for genres already developed within the film industry in order to offer images of Orientalism and primitivism extended and exaggerated beyond the point of realistic representation of ‘ other ’ peoples or goods ( for an extension of this argument see Miller forthcoming ; for a comparable example see Spooner 1986 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Get all the braking and gear-changing done and cleared before you take position for the corner , ’ he says . |
| 27 | No , do n't laugh ; the carpet deadens the noise and vibration caused when objects are dropped , and believe me , a noise emanating from a punt is well magnified through the water . |
| 28 | The correspondence between camp and suburb diminished as children grew up and married , as old men died , as men moved away to new cities and new occupations . |
| 29 | And so the novel ends in total shock , much like occupied Europe in 1945 , with a sense of all civility and order disrupted and about to be restored , and not at all like the cosy world of Coral Island . |
| 30 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |