Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 2 | So he goes out there and they all turn round and say , stuff you , I 'm not coming in to clean up for four pound and hour which again equates to six pound an hour . |
| 3 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 4 | An Add-A-Plane jig and planer I normally use to thickness ¼in strips for canoe building provided the answer . |
| 5 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 6 | So Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday I fully intend to . |
| 7 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 8 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 9 | His eyes narrowed thoughtfully and to her surprise and confusion he suddenly sat beside her on the settee , turning to her and looking at her closely , his gaze roaming over her flushed and beautiful face . |
| 10 | The route , via Donkey Lane , is lovely countryside and the experience should become the exact opposite of the stress and distress she obviously gets from driving . |
| 11 | Most Sarcophyton species have the polypary densely covered in individual polyps , which may have long or short stalks , and tentacles which similarly vary in size and may be feathery ( pinnated ) or simple . |
| 12 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 13 | Lists of freemen of the city must be used with great caution , for their coverage was far from complete , but they indicate patterns of immigration amongst the ‘ middling ’ groups of townsmen — the tradesmen , craftsmen and shopkeepers who together accounted for at least half the adult male population . |
| 14 | Shields were probably circular , of wood with a central hole for the handle which was protected by an iron boss ; it is the iron handle and boss which usually survive in graves where they are found . |
| 15 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 16 | On the day the merger was announced , USL president Roel Pieper , who will report to Noorda , claimed a positive reaction to the move from AT&T 's old enemies Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM who always fretted over AT&T 's control , its hardware biases and its association with the bad blood that drove the industry apart . |
| 17 | The areas in question , especially in the north and east , have been ‘ ethnically cleansed ’ of Muslims and Croats who once made up most of their populations . |
| 18 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 19 | Nithard reveals the contradictory values and expectations which otherwise have to be surmised . |
| 20 | Every self-respecting ideology develops its own complex defence mechanisms which cunningly conceal , or paper over , the glaring discrepancies and inconsistences which inevitably arise between what ought to happen and what actually does . |
| 21 | Occasionally two individual pieces are brought together to make a new complex whole as in the bronze cast Doll and Bow which now stands on the top of the Toybox where the toys , including a ball , are again in bronze and the box itself is the broken-off end of a stone carved sarcophagus . |
| 22 | Even in physics and chemistry they still appeared to be within the grasp of the ‘ practical man ’ — say a civil engineer . |
| 23 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 24 | Now that Shankly and Stein and many like them have gone , it raises the question of whether McIlvanney 's world of sport , embracing values and heroes who genuinely stood for something , faces inevitable decay in these vainglorious and calculating times . |
| 25 | This featured Miriam Margolyes and Bernard Bresslaw as our friends Harry and Dolly who unexpectedly arrive for dinner , giving Beattie nervous dyspepsia and terminal embarrassment . |
| 26 | ‘ The effects of reduced capital spending have almost certainly created a backlog of repairs and replacements which still leads to the widely held view ( outside government ) that the fabric of many schools remains poor . ’ |
| 27 | The media needs to be constantly on guard against secrecy applications made by lawyers who strive to protect clients and witnesses from the humiliation and embarrassment which frequently follows from reports of their appearances in court . |
| 28 | It depends on the individual 's attitudes , needs and priorities which clearly vary from person to person and from time to time . |
| 29 | What she 'd said was the nearest to regret and apology I ever heard from a malai . |
| 30 | The company tours throughout the north of England , and opera-goers who never venture past the Watford Gap simply do n't know what they 're missing . |