Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year .
2 Land acquired by the Tyne Improvement Commission came into public ownership and most remains there as the property of the Port of Tyne Authority which replaced the Improvement Commission in 1968 .
3 The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) .
4 Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright .
5 Conversely , they often assume , as do others , that someone working on religion theoretically and empirically does so from the standpoint of a believer , with the underlying assumption , ‘ Why else would anyone be interested in such a traditional , out-dated , and unimportant institution ? ’
6 In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’
7 Russell and Ann Mills ' flat is particularly impressive as it is located on the upper floor of the school 's west wing ( Plate 37 and Fig 53 ) and so extends up into the apex of the steeply-pitched roof .
8 The first movement is a paraphrase of the overture , a dance which takes place in the dark and so stops abruptly from time to time when people lose each other .
9 It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice .
10 The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape .
11 The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 .
12 I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends .
13 ‘ Metalscape ’ captures the POD venom with a massive thump — the song 's arrangement lets the lyrical flow build and build until , just as you 're wondering if Jim Steinman is in the house , the whole thing falls back and gently rises again in an enchanting manner .
14 We rarely find one who provides answers to all our questions , meets all our expectations and generally measures up to perfection !
15 More and more Americans were coming to the conclusion that government itself was a problem — a belief that ‘ clearly squares with established Republican doctrine and thus contributes positively to the fortunes of the GOP ’ .
16 Then the range of speeds that can be measured is very wide ; fractional Doppler shifts as small as 10 -15 can be measured and thus speeds down to less than — far lower than those normally encountered in fluid dynamics — though not all systems are capable of this .
17 ‘ It worries me to death bringing her to the races at long odds-on , but she is a great filly and just flies out of the stalls , ’ said trainer Richard Hannon .
18 The system used a very early expert system shell and soon runs out of capacity and so a later version of the shell was purchased that could cope with an increased knowledge base .
19 The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children .
20 Whilst a single stimulation of the body surface close to the gill or siphon produces a reflex withdrawal , on repeated stimulation the response habituates ; that is , the response to the repeated stimuli steadily diminishes and finally disappears completely for a while .
21 Fire , which painfully heals and floridly creates out of the slimiest reek and chaos …
22 This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population .
23 Anterior expression becomes restricted to r4 and gradually regresses posteriorly along the spinal cord as seen in the lateral views at 8.5 d.p.c .
24 The precious , vulnerable new ley gets neglected or misused and gradually tumbles down to a less demanding , less productive permanent pasture .
25 The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw .
26 Although few in number , the Reiksguard is the most important part of the army and usually forms up in the centre around the Emperor himself .
27 It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day .
28 This may start in July and always does so in August .
29 Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while .
30 Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects .
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