Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A casualty officer there reported seeing ‘ quite a few ’ patients suffering from bites and stings in recent days . |
| 2 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 3 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 4 | Unfortunately , you no longer get tax relief on home improvements ( nor on the extended part of a mortgage used for home improvements ) , and grants from local councils have also been cut back quite dramatically . |
| 5 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 6 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 7 | TRANSAID has helped SCF to secure an aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to famine-stricken areas of Somalia , where continued fighting and looting make overland travel dangerous . |
| 8 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 9 | In early September 1990 the government allowed United States troops and supplies in unarmed planes to overfly Austrian territory en route for the Gulf . |
| 10 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 11 | Only in corners where fast ice fails to break out each summer , or where pack accumulates and circulates in local gyres , do the floes last several years , and thicken both by pressure-rafting and by accretion . |
| 12 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 13 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 14 | They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’ |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher takes these sessions seriously and goes to enormous lengths to prepare for them . |
| 16 | She 's decided she wants a cat , and goes to enormous lengths to persuade her reluctant parents to buy her one . |
| 17 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 18 | Everybody finds a partner and sits in two rows opposite their partner . |
| 19 | Mr Tsongas is a pro-business liberal who won primaries and caucuses in seven states before lack of funds forced him out . |
| 20 | We worked with local schools , working at a clinic , doing hut to hut and outreaches in local villages . |
| 21 | A possible taxonomy of deictic elements and terms follows , which modifies and builds on previous attempts by linguists such as Levinson ( 1983 ) . |
| 22 | The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae , lichens and mosses in varying combinations ; the latter includes only one subformation , involving the two antarctic flowering plants , the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis . |
| 23 | The line which the law draws is at the very least indistinct , and turns on such imponderables as malum in se , mayhem , degrees of harmfulness , and public policy , and calls for an examination of such unsatisfactory cases as Donovan , Bravery v. |
| 24 | Method : Place leeks and noodles in alternate layers in casserole dish . |
| 25 | The pillars show borings made by marine organisms several metres above the present highest sea-level and so provide undeniable evidence of marine Invasions and retreats within historic times . |
| 26 | Wolves provide Bull , who has yet to play in the First Division , with passes over the midfield and crosses from overlapping full-backs . |
| 27 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 28 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 29 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 30 | It has been traditionally hunted for food and as a source of medicinal oil , and has in recent years been accidentally captured in fishing nets . |