Example sentences of "and [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often in popular fiction that we see most plainly the conventions that writers handle and readers learn , and where literary competence begins to be developed ’ . |
| 2 | Try to make these positive , and if possible try to manage with the resources already available to you . |
| 3 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 4 | The use of correctly converged colour television projectors with pixels superimposed rather than being shown side by side allows present television standards to be used satisfactorily , and economically , unless and until genetic engineering succeeds in altering human optics . |
| 5 | Durkheim wrote that , ‘ there is something impersonal in us because there is something social in all of us , and since social life embraces at once both representations and practices , this impersonality naturally extends to ideas as well as to acts . ’ |
| 6 | However , taken over such a large area , it is undoubtedly the case that Whites have higher socio-economic status than Blacks , and since social deprivation tends to be associated with criminal behaviour it is not surprising to find Blacks are over-represented among those arrested . |
| 7 | And while irrational resentment abounds in Russia ( and the Congress ) about the way in which economic reform has created several battalions of dollar-millionaires , many of Yeltsin 's problems stem from the sharp practices that have allowed these small fortunes to accumulate , mostly unhindered by taxation . |
| 8 | Estimated at $700–900,000 , the Johnson carpet was special , and after fierce bidding sold to a New York dealer ( acting for a private collector ) for $1.2 million ( £672,200 ) ( underbid by Maurice Segoura , who had sold the carpet to Mrs Johnson ) , a world record price for a carpet at auction . |
| 9 | ‘ There is a vast difference between that and when serious gambling leads to deprivation . ’ |
| 10 | And when Naive Prober plays against another Naive Prober , both tend to do , if anything , even worse still , since runs of reverberating defection tend to get started earlier . |