Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [art] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 2 | The illusionism which conjures a complete and natural ( I would prefer apocalypticnatural ) city out of materials as unpromising as the colour yellow , also yields up Raskolnikov like a natural secretion , and this vouchsafing process encompasses and transcends the resources both of first- and third-person narrative . |
| 3 | Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way . |
| 4 | The content of the primary obligation is , as it seems to me , exactly the same and if that of the tenant touches and concerns the land that of the surety must , as it seems to me , equally do so . |
| 5 | Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early . |
| 6 | The general education element is usually concentrated in the first two years ( 'lower division' ) of the four-year course , and takes the form either of distribution requirements which ensure that students cover a certain range of subjects , or else a common course organized around certain themes or topics , such as the ‘ Great Books ’ course or Boyer 's ( 1987 ) suggested ‘ integrated core ’ ( language , art , heritage , institutions , nature , work , identity ) . |
| 7 | A mother who loves her daughter can experience real anguish on her behalf if she becomes totally dependent upon her , and recognises the limitations this imposes on her social life and activities . |
| 8 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 9 | Stiffer suspension control helps the handling on the faster car and gives the driver more control . |
| 10 | On the one hand he is conceived and baptised by the Holy Spirit , and promises the gift.of that Spirit to his followers after his death . |
| 11 | Your Bristol & West Mortgage Advisor is the ‘ anchorman ’ ( or woman ) for the whole operation — and does a lot more than just give you a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ when you ask for a mortgage . |
| 12 | So the president of Y Products manages more people , governs a greater share of corporate resources , and earns a lot more money for the parent company than does the president of Z Press . |
| 13 | On the new discs the material is recorded in batches called ‘ frames ’ , and electronic circuitry counts the reproduced frames and controls the speed that way . |