Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the shrinkage and change in family structure and the alteration of some of its functions has coincided with a rise in the importance of the family as a focus of personal fulfilment . |
| 2 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 3 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 4 | People stroll in their shirtsleeves , and sit at sidewalk cafés . |
| 5 | They are they the thing is I was just saying me and you will have to go and get some chips and curry sauce again and sit in Palma Park , you can choose a table where you can get a point of the globe ! |
| 6 | The effect has been to leave DGIV acting as both prosecutor and judge in competition cases , which is unacceptable . |
| 7 | Parental encouragement and pressure , access to books and other educational materials , useful personal contacts and influence with party organisations , among other reasons , are usually cited for the rapid return to this preponderance of urban , intellectual youth in higher education . |
| 8 | First , Congress lacked leaders of consequence and influence like Sam Rayburn , Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen . |
| 9 | In order for this to happen a decentralised partnership between residential workers and social service teams is required , which ensures joint participation and influence in child care decisions . |
| 10 | According to the court 's case law ( see , in the context of the free movement of workers , Levin v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 53/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 1035 , 1058 , para. 17 ; Kempf v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 139/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 1741 , 1750 , para. 10 ; Brown v. Secretary of State for Scotland ( Case 197/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3205 , 3244 , para. 21 and Bettray v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 344/87 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 1621 , 1645 , para. 13 ; and , on a general level , for the definition of ‘ economic activities ’ within the meaning of article 2 of the E.E.C . |
| 11 | The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 12 | The main R & D and pilot facilities in Europe located at Newcastle , England , and in the USA at Rochester and Rensselaer in New York State , and Kingsport Tennessee . |
| 13 | As fashion dictates what a lot of the manufacturers make and then try and sell to Joe Public , I suppose we 're all guilty of fuelling this aspect of guitar/amp and gadget marketing . |
| 14 | They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane . |
| 15 | The reason for the muddle appears to be a simple agreement between government and commission officials over the UK map of political and administrative boundaries , which correctly puts Argyll and Bute in Strathclyde Region and the western part of Moray in Grampian . |
| 16 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 17 | Araminta released her and sped away , leaving Theda to draw a breath , square her shoulders , and make for Lady Merchiston 's door . |
| 18 | Turn around and make for Tracy Castle ? |
| 19 | All personal details are treated as strictly confidential and remain on computer file . |
| 20 | In reaction to Bosnia 's newly-gained independence , defiant Serbs yesterday declared their own state in the region which they said will encompass more than 50 per cent of the current republic and remain under Belgrade rule . |
| 21 | You have a rival about a hundred yards from your door — and bang on Oxford Street , unlike the Rose Bowl . |
| 22 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 23 | A mobile information unit with a video and display about Durham County Ambulance Service will tour towns in Teesdale and Weardale explaining details of the application . |
| 24 | ST JOHN the Baptist Parish , Timperley , finished October off in fine style with a variety concert and dance at Christ Church parish hall , with dancing to the Innisfree Band . |
| 25 | We 'd put on dresses and dance to Abba records and pretend to be Abba and we would prance about the bedroom or lounge singing into hairbrushes . |
| 26 | They are also believed to come ashore during fiestas and dance with village girls , and they are held responsible for many a fatherless child . |
| 27 | They tie you into a body harness and clamp on ankle straps . |
| 28 | — to represent competing alternative parses and account for garden path sentences with priming ; |
| 29 | Unix International Inc has so far logged nine responses to its Application Linking request for technology , including Lotus Development Corp , which is submitting its Link , Embed and Launch to Edit technology and Symbotics Inc . |
| 30 | The results assessed the validity of the correlation between villus height and gain in body weight . |