Example sentences of "and [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In A Second Beacon Fired by Scintilla ( 1652 ) he described his own apprenticeship and career , lamented the hardship caused to stationers by the civil war , and now argued that the availability of popish and heretical works showed that the press was too free . |
| 2 | Variable analysis welcomed , indeed required , an un- ashamed borrowing of regression and correlational statistics and , later , building these into causal models in which the weight of the effects of various variables could be determined . |
| 3 | ‘ Friendly and polite staff . |
| 4 | If you talk nice and polite people listen to you . |
| 5 | The enclosing box coordinates of each part , specifying their geometric domains , are held as high priority data in both the drawing file and specific sub.assembly files , allowing the geometric relationships of parts to be readily checked . |
| 6 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 7 | The provision of goods and services costs less , and their quality is improved : staff are highly motivated , leading to greater loyalty and job satisfaction and lower staff turnover ; the staff are respected and rewarded for using their initiative and suggesting improvements , and customer complaints are reduced . |
| 8 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 9 | The child has to learn which particular spelling is appropriate , and that gn and kn are just as much symbols which represent one sound as k or d . |
| 10 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 11 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 12 | Such major physical impacts are fairly easy to assess , but not enough work has yet been done to assess the effect of visitors on wildlife itself , though it is known that shy species will decline , while common species will often increase , and that fauna both on land and in water will decline faster than flora ( Liddle and Scorgie , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | For example , suppose cc necessitated e , e thus being necessary to cc , and that cc consisted in c and c " . |
| 14 | The union suggests that crofters get an automatic entitlement for up to ten cows and that sheep quota might be converted to cattle quota within the Highlands and Islands area . |
| 15 | What interested me particularly about Bennett 's work was another statistic which emerged — that in 1976 , considerably fewer than 17% of the primary schools in the study could be described as progressive and that 83% were ‘ middle of the way ’ or formal . |
| 16 | It comprehended at once distrust in the divine voracity and a proportionate credulity in the assurances of satan , unbelief , Side B graditude , disobedience , gluttony , ‘ In the man excessive uxoriousness , in the woman a want of proper regard for her husband , in both an insensibility to the welfare of their offspring and that offspring the whole human race . |
| 17 | But it is in the employees that Parker places his faith : ‘ This is a people-intensive business , ’ he proclaims and points out that 77% of the workforce bought shares when the firm was floated in September 1989 and that 75% still hold them . |
| 18 | ‘ A series of questions recently asked of the general public found that nearly everybody drinks at home some time and that 47pc of people drink at home at least once-a-week . |
| 19 | But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) . |
| 20 | The pollination process is so complicated and mechanically wonderful that it is almost beyond belief ; and the process is specific for that species of bee and that species of orchid , so that if one partner became extinct , the other would also die out . |
| 21 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 22 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 23 | IBM also said that demand for the RS/6000 continued to be strong and pointed out that its operating costs are declining and that total operating expenses were down 8.9% on a year-to-year basis and that sales , general and administrative costs fell 10.1% . |
| 24 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 25 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 26 | IBM also said that demand for the RS/6000 continued to be strong and pointed out that its operating costs are declining and that total operating expenses were down 8.9% on a year-to-year basis and that sales , general and administrative costs fell 10.1% . |
| 27 | It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased . |
| 28 | It comes after a national survey revealed one in four 15 year olds smokes regularly and that sales of cigarettes to children are estimated to be worth around £70m a year . |
| 29 | The government 's plan was to cut a 70m wide swathe through the forest for a major highway and that 100km both sides of this was to be developed . |
| 30 | I want us to have our own foreign policy , and that means having the means to carry it out . |