Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 2 | Attainment target 3 : A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 3 | A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose . |
| 4 | • writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 5 | writing — with three attainment targets in the primary stages : a growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language , matching style to audience and purpose ; spelling ; and handwriting ; but two in the secondary stages , with spelling and handwriting merged into an attainment target called presentation . |
| 6 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 7 | Ordinarily the referee and judge remain on opposite sides of the contestants but sometimes , for example when the latter are circling each other , both end up on the same side . |
| 8 | Under the Rouxs , it was called Le Gamin and became known for inexpensive but elegant food in cramped surroundings . |
| 9 | Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East . |
| 10 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 11 | The Soviet view of neutralisation in the 1970s and 1980s has evolved from the legalistic and Eurocentric notion of neutralisation which Eastern and Western statesmen held in common in earlier decades and sought to apply to particular disputes . |
| 12 | Just that the latter will have to lower their expectations and make do with imperfect versions of the former . |
| 13 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 14 | Certainly much touching of the penises , penile erection , and display occur between young male geladas and the behaviour is commonly used in greeting behaviour . |
| 15 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 16 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 17 | We would welcome a system of licensing which allowed private clubs to apply for all-night music and dance licensing in suitable venues . |
| 18 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 19 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 20 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 21 | Oh and got to park in main parking lot . |
| 22 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Tory group on Darlington council , says litter and pollution in the river is as bad as ever and has called for swift action . |
| 23 | Annie has suffered the indignity of being dumped by her husband , Aaron , for her sex-therapist ; Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy , unscrupulous Morty , a discount electronics magnate ; Elise has quietly suffered for years at the hands of an adulterous ne'er-do-well and has retreated into alcoholic stupefaction . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 26 | The forced reference reset can occur at this level , and has done on numerous occasions . |
| 27 | It has taken its PowerServer 340R and has bolted on extra communications and data storage options . |
| 28 | He is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Nicholas Ridley and Mr John Gummer . |
| 29 | Parish Clerk Weekley , that man of power and aerial photographs , is pushing for a further diversion to include free eye-testing for the old , and has written to local doctors advising them of this . |
| 30 | As a result , market intelligence is limited , and has led to contradictory stances being adopted by different companies . |