Example sentences of "and [adj] [n mass] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is in the employees that Parker places his faith : ‘ This is a people-intensive business , ’ he proclaims and points out that 77% of the workforce bought shares when the firm was floated in September 1989 and that 75% still hold them . |
| 2 | This year , solidly under a Labour controlled Council , only two hundred and fifty people approximately have been allowed to exercise what actually is their legal right . |
| 3 | It 's a huge contract , and management are eager to get the plants four hundred and fifty staff back to work as soon as possible . |
| 4 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 5 | There is no general agreement about schizophrenia 's cause or cure , and some people even dispute that it exists . |
| 6 | They do love sweet stuff such as honey , jam , chocolate , and biscuits , and some people even prepare special badger cakes to proffer to their local clan . |
| 7 | Others use the machine while travelling , and some people even see their portable as a status symbol , along with their cellular phone and a well-worn Filofax . |
| 8 | But after 1688 Parliament under Whig domination tended to restrict rather than enlarge the franchise , and some people even lost their voting rights . |
| 9 | And some people misguidedly use disagreement with others as the main instrument of asserting their status . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a holiday place , and some people only come once . |
| 11 | Because home ownership has grown so fast , and old people now live longer , the main impact of inheritance still lies ahead . |
| 12 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 13 | However , mail-shots are gaining in popularity and 53 percent now consider them as either their first or second most effective marketing technique . |
| 14 | The yield of the plant is low because the flower buds and immature fruit frequently drop off . |
| 15 | So I should think that 's but I reckon we must cos the government changed it , it knocked hundred and forty quid off did n't they ? |
| 16 | Now , there 's been lots of talk about gay and lesbian people not having no rights , I come from a Jewish society , I 've got people who suffer anti-semitic ri , feelings , there 's lot of erm multi-ra , ethnic majorities who cover on this programme , and I think that issue has to be looked at as well . |
| 17 | details of publisher and editorial staff usually printed on the contents page . |
| 18 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 19 | Acknowledging , then , the value of direct experience , books and similar media still serve a purpose by : |
| 20 | The tapetum is so useful for seeing in the dark that some reptiles , moths and deep-sea fish also have one . |
| 21 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |
| 22 | For example , earthquake fault zones can be combined with data on housing density and structural details to predict earthquake damage levels and these data then related to the network model . |
| 23 | In June and July 1989 statistics revealed a fall in industrial production and a rise in unemployment , and product prices and retail sales all fell in June . |
| 24 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 25 | iii ) A system that will make possible the integration of economic , social and environmental data thereby adding greatly to the value of each component data element . |
| 26 | Black people have always known racial violence to be a criminal offence and Black people always reported incidents to the police . |
| 27 | I 'm I 'd like to know what it 's like running Oxford City Council when , and I 'm sure you think you 're doing an good job and many people probably do think you 're a good job , but there are lots of issues that need discussing . |
| 28 | In this friendly atmosphere , plans for a reunion had already started before we were halfway through , and many people still keep in touch with each other back home . |
| 29 | If such attitudes are now considered contemptible , it should be remembered that the policy of segregation continued for most of the twentieth century and many people still believe today that mentally handicapped people should be isolated and prevented from having children , even though the hereditary risks are low and can , in most cases , be discounted . |
| 30 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |