Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] and be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't drink or smoke and is a wonderful father . |
| 2 | Consumer-orientated , it invited listeners to write in about anything they had found difficult to buy or do and were wanting to know why . |
| 3 | It is issued to passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed and is redeemable by the airlines at face value . |
| 4 | The base and emitter pins of the transistor go through the board holes where shown and are soldered to the foil . |
| 5 | A pioneering survey at the university reports men complaining of being brushed up against in crowds , touched or grabbed and being the object of sexual remarks . |
| 6 | Instead , doctors must educate the profession and the public that inchoate multiple symptoms of psychological origin are not a sign of weak will or malingering and are curable at little or no expense if doctor and patient collaborate in treatment . |
| 7 | is one at control that you can call back in or destroyed and be replaced by |
| 8 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 9 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 10 | A single person , or a couple without children , extremely busy and not overly fond of cooking will almost certainly prefer a functional , working room that looks and is efficient . |
| 11 | When faced with the choice of believing or not believing , Pascal , a gambling man , reckoned that the consequences of not believing and being wrong ( eternal damnation ) were infinitely worse than believing and being wrong , so he chose to believe . |
| 12 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 13 | Tom was annoyed at the long silence that followed and was just about to say something when he caught sight of Willie 's face . |
| 14 | I mean I could sit down and write a piece of doggerel about what we 're doing now that rhymed and was comic and so on . |
| 15 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 16 | Instead , they were now dynamic quantities that influenced and were influenced by events that took place in them . |
| 17 | We are by temperament more favourable to such a simple statement of mutuality as the conclusion to 25 : ‘ Then happy I that love and am belov 'd , /Where I may not remove nor be remov 'd . ’ |
| 18 | As I 'm sure you know , the majority of girls seeking such posts can neither read nor write and are of such low intelligence that they have no control over the children ; in fact , the children soon take advantage of them . |
| 19 | It was particularly valuable to learn of some of the principal concerns that exist and are obviously discussed by the committee from time to time . |
| 20 | He was genially detached , as though brought along to Sleet for no better reason than to admire and be pleasant . |
| 21 | She , the simple mender and dealer in second-hand clothes , happens to return as she happens to keep getting pregnant — and what fuller and neater manifestation of chance than that , than conceiving and being conceived ? |
| 22 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 23 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 24 | The lengthy explanatory messages required take time to read and absorb and are a potential distraction to the class . |
| 25 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 26 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 27 | Presenting a piece of information as given suggests that it is already established and agreed and is therefore non-negotiable . |
| 28 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 29 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
| 30 | Who could choose but look on this picture , and on that , and acknowledge and be shocked by the inevitable comparison ? |