Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boo lives in a town where the people are very religious , but narrow minded and intolerant of those who do not conform to their very rigid code of social behaviour , and where everybody knows everyone else because the same families have lived there for generations . |
| 2 | Among adults , the ideal is that everyone treats each other as an autonomous equal , and that everyone performs their material and ritual obligations to the community . |
| 3 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 4 | Given that N. Langsdorfii could be a perennial in a mild winter and that it seeds itself even more freely , this could go from being a rarity to a ‘ pernicious weed ’ in record time . |
| 5 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 6 | Given the composition of Council , it is likely that only the DTI stands in the way of adoption of this proposal : if it is adopted , I hope we will be spared further sanctimonious claims to the high ground by the Institute , and that it concedes it is operating predominantly in the interests of ( some of ) its members . |
| 7 | Then we shall show that this more subtle procedure is a valid way of estimating a macroeconomic model which incorporates rational expectations and that it allows us to test rational expectations conditional on the economic model with which it is combined . |
| 8 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 9 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 10 | You might decide to watch television , listen to music or read a book — but make sure that you enjoy it and that it has nothing to do with your work . |
| 11 | Of course , we could argue that obese parents eat too much , and are thus likely to overfeed their children , making them obese , and that it has nothing to do with genetics or inheritance . |
| 12 | what he has said is that he , it 's a matter for myself to talk to whoever I wish , and that he respects my judgement in these matters , er according to the joint statement issued Mr Reynolds briefed him on his discussions with me on that on that |
| 13 | Doreen looked down at her hands , then admitted reluctantly , ‘ If you must know — he told Jean he likes Lucy , and that he hopes she will never leave this place . |
| 14 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 15 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 16 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 17 | The Chancellor has indicated that he taxes categories of alcoholic drinks , and that he treats them differently because he wishes to retain ‘ flexibility ’ . |
| 18 | A very much richer reading is obtained , by way of alternative , by stressing how a perception of the arbitrary nature of social divisions and of socio-cultural class stereotypes underlies Chaucer 's composition here , and that he invites his readers — those who do not wish to conform to the naive stereotype of the " " gentil wight " " — to share this insight . |
| 19 | Then say this one should recover his losses , and that he owes it to himself to let us at least do that for him . |
| 20 | He ( or she ) feels that no one could possibly like or appreciate him and that he has nothing to offer . |
| 21 | yes and I 've just verified that this witness agrees on that matter and that he has nothing to do with it , is that right ? |
| 22 | I know authors say they prefer to let their work speak for them , but I hardly think it would harm the integrity of the book to know a little something about the man , such as that he is forty-two , married to American academic Antonia Phillips , with two children , Louis and Jacob , and that he has what he calls a ‘ middle-aged obsession ’ with competitive games , particularly tennis . |
| 23 | If we say we believe God is there and that he loves us but live as if he were dead or could n't care less about us , then the beliefs we presuppose in practice are out of line with the beliefs we profess in theory , and we are bound to doubt God eventually . |
| 24 | His aim is to make ACT number one supplier for the international finance sector , and although he admits he could n't have said such a thing three years ago without being laughed at , he now feels confident that it is a realisable goal . |
| 25 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 26 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 27 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 28 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 29 | It 's not easy to predict why shame should operate one way or , or another and although it has something to do with the superego , you ca n't just say well the superego is er purely the result of erm of , of socialization , if you have strict parents you have a strict superego , it 's not that simple . |
| 30 | Well in some of he boxes like that and once he hits them , and he knows he 's hurt them , then they |