Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 2 | Text and images handled separately A combination of the above but not a particularly helpful treatment . |
| 3 | Text and images linked Currently a common method of combining text and images in a range of database types , including CD-ROM . |
| 4 | No freehold property is mentioned in his will , but his goods , chattels and savings constituted quite a nice little nest-egg for his sons and his daughter — and was not ambition for one 's children one of the marks of a Victorian middle-class man ? |
| 5 | A concentration on rights and obligations provides only a narrow perspective that ignores the role of international regulation in development , the equitable allocation of resources , and the need for cooperation and negotiation between States . |
| 6 | Performing at Tokyo 's Club Quatro , Wildski is truly an over-the-top , larger-than-life man who bounded through the Japanese experience picking up enough words and phrases to cobble together an Oriental rap which had the crowd beaming from ear to ear . |
| 7 | The strictly legal weighing of rights and wrongs played only a subordinate role in the outcome of the case , even where the judge was , in other respects , assertive of his judicial strength ( see pp. 187–8 ) . |
| 8 | It can not be sold ( in the absence of slavery ) and individuals have only a limited ability to transfer non-human wealth into human wealth ( though an individual can , of course , invest in himself through education or by undertaking training courses ) . |
| 9 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 10 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 11 | From each the pipes and cables supplied only a small area . |
| 12 | They came to a wonderful peak towards the end of his life where his love of the countryside , its changing weather , lights and moods brought forth a series of remarkable , free-spirited watercolours . |
| 13 | Where primroses and cowslips grow together a few will be hybrids between the two with large primrose-like flowers on top of a tall stem , like a cowslip . |
| 14 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 15 | He could never have taken his urine and faeces samples once a week to Health Physics . |
| 16 | Thousands of gallons of water surround you as you come face to face with hundreds of fascinating sea creatures from around our own shores … octopus , conger eels , starfish and rays to name just a few , and all from astonishing angles and amazingly close quarters . |