Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That information arises from what individuals and organizations collectively define and act upon . |
| 32 | Ventilators are often blocked and air-conditioning badly maintained and operated . |
| 33 | Branches and limbs and hair and eyes all jumbled and mixed , so that you could not tell where the Tree part ended and the naiad part began . |
| 34 | Her face and eyes still smiled but there was a new sharpness in her voice as she said : ‘ Who else could we ask so much of ? |
| 35 | Business and pleasure only mix when you 're wielding the cocktail shaker . |
| 36 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 37 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |
| 38 | Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’ |
| 39 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 40 | The simple fact that pianos with and without checks existed side by side in the Vienna of Mozart , Haydn and Beethoven also shows that at least two different schools of playing the piano co-existed around 1800 . |
| 41 | Not necessarily for what he did on the pitch , although the trickery and goals certainly helped but more importantly the presence of the man , and excitement he inspired amongst his colleagues . |
| 42 | Sometimes dealers and clients alike wondered whether the whole thing was n't just a game of bluff . |
| 43 | Marx and Engels repeatedly emphasized that by ‘ dialectically ’ confronting what was contradictory in the main intellectual currents of their day , and by forcibly demonstrating the class biases which produced intellectual contradictions , their own distinctive theories could be developed and enhanced . |
| 44 | Some Zuwaya and Magharba also thought that the postures adopted by their fellow tribesmen were undemocratic and retrograde , and so they too stayed away . |
| 45 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 46 | If the Community is built on anything other than a recognition that people and nations often disagree and argue , then it will blow apart in time , or , worse , have to maintained by ever more centralised power . |
| 47 | ( Baker and Butlin wryly note that , paradoxically , this statement itself is a generalization . ) |
| 48 | They were walking along a smallish road to the left of the extraordinary green-and-white-striped cathedral and David suddenly stopped and put both hands on Julia 's shoulders . |
| 49 | The Count and Countess both looked and sounded good , though Stephen Page 's portrayal of a habitual seducer was less than convincing . |
| 50 | With instruments and voices carefully mixed and contrasted , the overall programme is richly varied . |
| 51 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 52 | Furthermore , such a structure should also cater for the need for ongoing support of special needs post-holders , to deepen their awareness of existing expectations and evolving needs of the fellow professionals with whom they are working — expectations and anxieties both voiced and unvoiced ( cf Laslett and Smith 1984 ) . |
| 53 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 54 | First , I was a gypsy and gypsies never forget and they never forgive . |
| 55 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 56 | He looked in her direction and they exchanged smiles and Ruth somehow felt that if Steve thought she was in trouble and needed bailing out he would come over immediately . |
| 57 | She hoped her stepfather would be home late : although she had spent most of her life with him , she regretted that her mother had felt unable to exist as a single parent , and Camille still wished that he would prove unfaithful or die . |
| 58 | It 's just that lifts only break down because people use them , rubbish chutes only get blocked with rubbish and debris only accumulates because public spaces are n't cleaned often enough . |
| 59 | And Troilus immediately confesses that this was his real motive behind his defence of the present Trojan stance . |
| 60 | At last the sixth member of the group arrived , and Tallis almost smiled as she recognized the type . |