Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you reflect for a moment on which areas are likely to have rocks under tension , and where cracking and dyke intrusion are likely , you will realize that the mid-ocean ridges are hot favourites for this kind of activity . |
| 2 | A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . |
| 3 | Is it sharp and clear or blurred and ill-defined ? |
| 4 | As I mentioned earlier , techniques and equipment are developing rapidly ; teams are using thinner section aluminium to construct the raft sections , Kevlar is now used for bows , wooden Canadian paddles are either purchased or crafted and buoyancy aids are specially adapted to carry water bottles , etc , enabling drinks to be taken without interrupting the stroke . |
| 5 | Friends would walk by , too , or stop and talk . |
| 6 | Herons land nearby and stalk the shallows or stand and roost . |
| 7 | As stated earlier these strategies are defined as ‘ activating forces within the system to alter the system ’ , and they involve either improving the problem-solving capabilities of the system , or releasing and fostering growth in the persons who make up the system to be changed . |
| 8 | ‘ Certainly , her efforts on the VAT question where racing and breeding is concerned , have been most encouraging ’ . |
| 9 | Choose large , firm , healthy specimens that are not visibly diseased or damaged and plant quickly , before they show signs of sprouting , as this can affect subsequent growth and flower quality . |
| 10 | However , their benefits are much less tangible than a physical product in that they can not be stored or displayed and satisfaction is achieved through activities ( e.g. transportation from one place to another rather than say a seat on a train ) . |
| 11 | They 'd had to do it , or starve and freeze , but there was no knowing where it would end . |
| 12 | Approval for this should be given by GWM or MAR and SW ’ form ( see No. 4 ) . |
| 13 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 14 | It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance . |
| 15 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 16 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 17 | Among these men where learning and speculation have become a leisured pursuit — where the amateur-cum-Renaissance man is king and the dilettante is the hero — a new world-view is being forged . |
| 18 | I always wash my hair with Wash & Go and condition it with Flex conditioner from Revlon . |
| 19 | For example , employees controlling imprest accounts ; collecting income or collecting and banking money . |
| 20 | Loads cabbage with plenty of butter on or sprout and broccoli |
| 21 | redirecting overseas exploration efforts into offshore areas where finding and development costs are lower than equivalent offshore environments ; |
| 22 | redirecting our overseas exploration efforts into onshore areas where finding and development costs are lower than equivalent offshore environments ; |
| 23 | If unable to lane within the time allowed , or to approach and land visually , leave at the altitude and route appropriate for that airfield . |
| 24 | But the intelligence game is now an international affair where winning and point-scoring is the most important thing . |
| 25 | In one of the worst years on record many nests have been robbed or destroyed and adult birds shot or poisoned . |
| 26 | He said work had just begun on the Rockwell site where landscaping and planting should encourage wildlife and provide a pleasant outlook for people living on the nearby new housing estate . |
| 27 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 28 | David Blunkett said it would ‘ reinforce worries that influence and control are slipping away ’ . |
| 29 | Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation , after it voiced concern that dredging and flooding would have a dangerously destructive impact on the fragile ecosystem . |
| 30 | In adults , the use of the mouth and lips in kissing is the frequently permitted act of oral gratification , although eating and drinking retain a weaker gratification for the oral sexual impulses . |