Example sentences of "and [am/are] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a two-year common course students elect and are selected for either a three-year honours degree in Consumer Studies or a four-year sandwich degree in Consumer Studies which , as well as leading to the award of an honours degree , includes a Diploma in Industrial Studies ( DIS ) awarded for the successful completion of a year 's industrial placement . |
| 2 | The Kujawiak and Obertass Mazurkas again reflect Wieniawski 's heritage , and are played with more devil- may-care abandon than the Polonaises . |
| 3 | Most tropical plants have no resistance to freezing and are killed by even slight frost . |
| 4 | The pulses of light passing through the slots are converted to electrical signals by the photocell and are treated in just the same way as those of the mechanical system . |
| 5 | There are around 35,000 Eurocard cash machines in Europe ; Eurocheques can be cashed at more than 215,000 banks and are accepted by more than 5m retailers , restaurants and hotels in 40 countries . |
| 6 | Most groundsheets are made of nylon and are coated with either pvc or pu . |
| 7 | Woven carpets are generally the most expensive , and are made by either the Axminster or the Wilton method . |
| 8 | More rarely , such stories are told at other times to demonstrate the reverse : that policemen and women are human beings and are affected by emotionally demanding work . |
| 9 | Other collocates exist as lexical phenomena , and are referred to as syntagmatic or lexical collocates . |
| 10 | some proteins form an integral part of the membrane and are exposed to both the exterior and interior surface of the cell . |
| 11 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |
| 12 | The famous trio of Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau loom over the pistes of tiny British-dominated Wengen , and are seen to even better advantage from even tinier Murren ( the one resort which genuinely is traffic-free ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , from the forties onwards there is likely to be greater stability in the sense that individuals are more settled in their jobs and ambitions and are supported by less rapidly changing domestic and leisure situations . |
| 14 | Light-boxes have a translucent surface and are illuminated from inside with fluorescent tubes . |
| 15 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 16 | ‘ I see a growing demand for the Longhorn from Continental farmers who are moving out of dairying and are looking for easily kept beef cattle that can thrive outdoors all year round , ’ says Mr Close . |
| 17 | Vantages and Virages now roll off the assembly at the dizzying rate of five a week , and are bought by very rich men ( cost : £120,000 ) with a taste for abiding values in a changing world . |
| 18 | If such alterations have been well thought out , and the detail carefully considered , it must be desirable that the proposals receive support and are passed with as little fuss as possible . |
| 19 | Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style . |
| 20 | There are around 100,000 ‘ forgotten farmers ’ in the UK , who work no more than 27 acres of land , earn profits of no more than £200 a year and are overlooked in almost every set of official agricultural statistics ( writes Peter Robson ) . |
| 21 | Equation ( 6.17 ) implies that dividends are a constant proportion of share wealth ( P0 ) and are set at exactly the level necessary to enable that share wealth to deliver the same dividend in all future periods . |
| 22 | The MP-2 line uses custom 32-bit RISCs rated at 133 MIPS and are configured with as many as 16,000 of the things . |
| 23 | All such bibliographies — and most reputable private presses have issued them — are of considerable value as sources of reference for booksellers and collectors and are paid for accordingly . |
| 24 | Robusta beans have a more neutral flavour , a higher caffeine content and are used in commercially prepared blends and for the catering trade . |
| 25 | Tuscan personnel manager Liz Tait , who is acting chairman of the works committee which adopted the air ambulance as an annual charity , said : ‘ We just hope to raise as much money as possible and are planning at least one event a month . ’ |
| 26 | While the maximum that can be saved by an individual aged over 16 is £20 a month , more than one SAYE account can be held by the saver — provided they are held with the same institution and are opened at least one month apart . |
| 27 | Other ‘ domatia ’ are more substantial structures and are known from over 400 species ( half in America , fewest in Africa ) in over 30 genera of trees and lianes : in A cacia they are in stipular thorns but in the rest they are in the stems , where the stems are sometimes swollen as in some species of Clerodendrum ( Verbenaceae ) . |