Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took five years to do it , five years of remissions and declines and suffering borne with no patience whatever . |
| 2 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 3 | He reports experimental evidence which suggests that adolescent middle-class Jamaicans can distinguish " Jamaican English " from " Jamaican Creole " , and shows that code switching between these two can be identified not only in contemporary speech , but also in the speech of characters in literary texts . |
| 4 | Cummings suggests that the microcomputer is a powerful generator of discussion which should be fostered and not ignored and states that Language has a triple function in education : for communication as a thinking tool and a shaper of leanings . |
| 5 | The rising level of violence , strained relations between London and Dublin and fears that failure to restart the talks will lead to President Clinton 's plans for a peace envoy being revived , all appear to have prompted Mr Major to take a personal interest . |
| 6 | The parietal assemblages have the essential characteristics of a message : they respond to the needs and means that man has had since the Upper Palaeolithic to produce oral symbols in a material form by using his hands . |
| 7 | Many now have a pause button which allows you to avoid these irritations and means that play starts again immediately you release pause . |
| 8 | The loss of enthusiasm is death of the soul , and means that growth has stopped . |
| 9 | But then Burgess , though a master of many moods , seems to mistrust the comic , and believes that entertainment falsifies the world by concentrating on matter rather than manner . |
| 10 | And demonstrates that poetry has its uses . |
| 11 | Head for tidal boatyard dykes and basins when thaw sets in , as excellent sport expected . |
| 12 | In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why . |