Example sentences of "and the [n mass] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost £60 — a lot of money — and the townspeople began to say ‘ Mr Shakespeare ’ , not ‘ Young Will the actor ’ or ‘ John Shakespeare 's boy ’ . |
| 2 | There was trouble at Bazas , and a major dispute in Dax , where the bishopric had been taken into Edward 's hands in 1272 , and the townspeople resisted Tany by force . |
| 3 | As punishment for having harboured the killers of his sons , Richard had the village crops destroyed and the livestock slaughtered . |
| 4 | Within days rumours began to circulate that Knighton would have difficulty in raising the £10m he needed to buy out Edwards , the £10m reserved to buy out other shareholders and the £10m pledged to the rebuilding of the Stretford End . |
| 5 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 6 | Matriline coalitions also utilize secondary food sources such as leaves and unripe fruits and the species have digestive mechanisms for detoxifying the latter . |
| 7 | There were also two in Chichester Harbour in December 1963 , and the species has been recorded in late October , November and January in the past . |
| 8 | Although the climate is much the same throughout the range of the bellicose termite , the soils are more variable and the species adapts the design of the nests to suit the position and strength of the local building material . |
| 9 | Breakfast and the Pekinese awaited her in the dining-room . |
| 10 | The transmitter should now be operated and the l.e.d. held pointing downwards approximately 10cm away from the top of the phototransistor on the receiver unit . |
| 11 | More than likely you will notice you 're as competent as the angler you 're watching and return with restored confidence to your swim , which , in the meantime rested , suddenly bursts alive and the dace start feeding so well you 're hooking one a chuck . |
| 12 | They married the fact of a German kingdom to the theory of Italian churchmen and the offspring survived for nearly a thousand years . |
| 13 | She 's already invested so much that , and the offspring has got a self interest for getting as much as it can , so their self interest coincides . |
| 14 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 15 | And the folk had said to him , if you release this man you are no friend of Caesar 's . |
| 16 | The Prudential appealed , contending that there were two contracts and that stamp duty was payable only for the land and the works completed on 18 October 1989 . |
| 17 | Later Danish histories include the mid-twelfth-century Roskilde Chronicon and the works composed by Swegen Aggeson and Saxo Grammaticus c.1200 . |
| 18 | As the local iron ores were being exhausted and the works used larger quantities , these local supplies were not enough . |
| 19 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 20 | At that date the subject-matter of the photographs was perfectly legible and the works gained their force and content from the way two or more photographs were placed side by side : a woman 's face in close-up , an ominous highway at night . |
| 21 | Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary . |
| 22 | ‘ You create a cash market tor Polar bear fur and the Eskimo spends it on booze . |
| 23 | the evidence set out by the Society of Black Lawyers and the statistics released by the CLE which give reasonable cause to believe that the CLE has unlawfully discriminated against black students on racial grounds in : |
| 24 | He shuddered , and groaned aloud , and the sperm hit her dress , on her stomach near her navel ; it soaked through the cotton like the spreading warmth of pee , reminding her of when she wet herself as a child , and gave off a quick raw smell . |
| 25 | He saw the silver throne , the burning candles of coral , and the sea-people blowing on trumpets of pearl . |
| 26 | After the dessert and the fruit came the coffee . |
| 27 | And he also sacrifices his dancefloor fun for DJing chores at the legendary Pushca parties , the Superstar Niteclub at Bar Industria and The Fruit Machine , Heaven 's new Wednesday night gay club . |
| 28 | But now in the monsoon , Sigarup , Murti Lāl and the sheep inhabited a celestial world of their own , a patch of grassland in a stratosphere of densely swirling mist and cloud . |
| 29 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 30 | Meals , meal times and the paraphernalia associated with them had always loomed large in the Laura Ashley ideology . |