Example sentences of "and [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 Even he , who loved his bed more than anything , joined us to listen to Colonel Stephens , and when news came of some successful advance against the Axis he would burst into wonderful , joyous laughter .
32 The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power .
33 All day long the murky weather had held over the River Thames and as night closed in the February fog swirled out into the narrow cobbled lanes and backstreets of Bermondsey .
34 The feed pipe is fixed at the throat and as water flows from the tap the suction draws up chemical from the drum to mix with the water .
35 For a chain molecule composed of a large number of segments , movement of the complete molecule depends on the co-operative movement of all the segments , and as stress-relaxation depends on the number of ways the molecule can regain its most probable conformation , each possible co-ordinated movement is treated as a mode of motion with a characteristic relaxation time .
36 Following expansion overseas and as recession deepened in 1989 , the group folded .
37 Regrettably , time may be their undoing , particularly as the diminished funding for TVEI extension work shrinks and as criticism grows about the lack of control in its financing by government departments .
38 Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow .
39 We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war .
40 In fact the Welfs could not get their letters through Philip 's lines and Philip was much stronger than Otto militarily and as time wore on attracting more of the princes to his cause .
41 So what I was gon na say was , that , that partic , partic er participant observations typically involves actually living with the , the study for a fair amount of time , so erm although they might tell you a pack of lies initially you can actually observe what they 're like , what they do and see whether they fit what they 've said and as time goes on you ha hope to develop some kind of rapport with them so that they might totally understand .
42 And as time goes on you find he 's gone further and further away .
43 And as time goes by you will probably have to document in detail why the project is behind schedule .
44 Such views have not received widespread acceptance , however , and as time goes by the chances of a reinstatement of some form of gold standard look more and more remote .
45 The only feature of the city shared by rich and poor alike was the atmosphere , and as time went on the manufacturers stopped living next to their mills , as Robert Thornton does , and retreated further and further into the suburbs .
46 And as time went on course I 'd got no experience of house cleaning boots and managing , or anything like that !
47 And as pressure mounted for military intervention , NATO agreed to draw up plans to use force to make sure humanitarian aid gets through to the stricken region .
48 No doubt in some cases this was true , but as research has indicated a much denser pattern of settlement in earlier periods , and as continuity seems to be the norm , the role of churches has required re-examination .
49 But after 40 minutes the first wave of the military action ended and as dawn broke over the capital there was no sign of a ground operation .
50 Interbedded in the usual deepish water black shale are numerous boulder beds , that have been variously interpreted as ordinary sedimentary conglomerates , as tectonic breccias , as deposits from melting ice and as rock falls from towering cliffs .
51 And as light comes from above ( in other words , from outside the tank ) , some sort of lid is needed to keep the caterpillars from wandering off .
52 The use of MRI for staging pelvic cancers has recently increased and as technology advances with the development of surface coils and endoscopic coils , pelvic imaging is likely to become a prominent application .
53 Then with the utilization of satellites when satellite climatology ushered in a new era which Barrett ( 1974 ) has characterized as providing observing systems of the earth and atmosphere , as highly convenient data collection platforms , and as connection links between widely spaced ground stations between which large daily exchanges of weather data must take place .
  Previous page   Next page