Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more gender-balanced communication requires that there be a process of redefinition and change in all areas of human activity . |
| 2 | Since the press was now free to publish and comment on all aspects of political life , strident debates took place in the columns of the newspapers and even , though more timidly , within the Legislative Body itself . |
| 3 | Miles which in Classical times denoted an ordinary soldier had , by the eleventh century , come to mean ‘ knight ’ and led to such forms as Miles Parliamentalis = knight of the shire , and miles agrarius = holder of a knight 's fee . |
| 4 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 5 | But the entire episode promoted anti-union sentiment , not only amongst Conservatives , and led to many cries for legislation on picketing to clip the power of the overmighty trade unions once and for all . |
| 6 | He was an investment banker and financier , in his early fifties , with contacts and influence into all reaches of Industry and Government . |
| 7 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 8 | Under William and Anne a certain degree of ideological adjustment can be detected for both parties , as the Whigs shed their Country wing and became to all intents and purposes a Court party , whilst the Country platform came to be absorbed within Toryism . |
| 9 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 10 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 11 | This deficiency is linked in some way to the death of nerve cells that arise in the forebrain and connect to many regions of the cerebral cortex . |
| 12 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 13 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 14 | The committee was appointed to consider powers of delegated legislation and quasi-judicial decision and to report on any safeguards needed ‘ to secure the constitutional principles of the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of the Law ’ . |
| 15 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person . |
| 16 | I think people give it away too much ; I do n't think they take the time to sit down and think about all aspects of being a creative person |
| 17 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 18 | With the increasing emphasis on provision of housing and transport outside the state , these goods too are increasingly distributed and rationed along such lines . |
| 19 | Keep this simple : walk , trot and canter on both reins , plus halt , will be sufficient . |
| 20 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 21 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 22 | Women have been central in the leadership , organisation and maintaining of these structures , dealing with health care , education , food production and distribution , the internal economy etc . |
| 23 | After a walk and trot on both reins , Jennie told Katharine to make some serpentine loops throughout the whole school to help supple him laterally . |
| 24 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 25 | Early achievement spurs the client on ; they are taught to focus on their success , and to cope with any difficulties rationally by altering the programme slightly until success is achieved . |
| 26 | The various intermediate values produced in computing these levels have been printed out and examined in some trials . |
| 27 | The brothers were much loved in the village and joined in all activities , until the abbot sought fresh fields . |
| 28 | I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) . |
| 29 | Hanging near the Ardebil in the Victoria and Albert Museum is another magnificent 16th-century Persian carpet , known as the Chelsea carpet because it was found in an antique shop in Chelsea , and regarded by many scholars as the most beautiful carpet ever made . |
| 30 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |