Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Last Meal in the Old Home ’ , like a Pre-Raphaelite painting , the three orphans and the grieving servant seated in melancholy around the old table , using the old knives and forks they would never use again . |
| 2 | This chapter gives you some ideas for informal things to do in the Home , organised outings and activities which may also have a special therapy value , like reminiscence . |
| 3 | This enables various devices to be used in order to discriminate against the much more abundant elements and molecules which would otherwise swamp the 14 C signal . |
| 4 | Black armoured shrimps nuzzling there were cruisers and troopships which might well dwarf the corvette that Lexandro and the other recruits were sailing in . |
| 5 | It is not just the Sunday League , but Boys ’ Brigade and Scouts who will also be affected . ’ |
| 6 | So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff . |
| 7 | The purpose of this approach is to give students the opportunity of developing a range of mathematical skills and strategies which can then be applied in the formal investigation . |
| 8 | Hundreds of T-shirts , jackets and trainers which would normally have been destroyed will now be put to good use in orphanages there . |
| 9 | The toddler age group is particularly prone to this type of behaviour problem and parents may seek help from GPs and paediatricians who may just say that the child will grow out of it ( Christopherson 1986 ) . |
| 10 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 11 | The other objection , which I personally would see as more formidable , lies in the complications of development in sexuality and relationships which must usually arise in the child partner . |
| 12 | The two appear to be working through a shopping list of NT 's ingredients , ticking off those features and functions which can already be found in their own , or equivalent open systems products on , or coming to market . |
| 13 | Joseph Glanvil , for example , believed that if people gave up belief in ghosts and witches they would soon also give up God , and he investigated some supposedly haunted houses . |
| 14 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |
| 15 | But the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that , and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights . |
| 16 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 17 | Capital is devoted to the creation of desires and needs which can only be fulfilled by the latest developments of the market . |
| 18 | Those of us who wish to push forward must acknowledge the pain it may cause and help those affected to grieve , and then to let go of values and ideas which may no longer be relevant . |
| 19 | People seemed to separate into camps , or to be misrepresented under labels — ‘ deconstructionists ’ , ‘ essentialist ’ , etc — and the crossover of information and ideas which could possibly have been so fruitful seemed instead a potentially explosive exchange . |
| 20 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 21 | If we can understand how cells behave during development so as to make arms and brains we can then begin to ask how genes control the behaviour of the cells and so establish the link . |
| 22 | Hemp bags with holes in them , paper , broken bits of wood and , I expect , old implements and things which would now be quite valuable . |
| 23 | This possibility has existed since the model became dynamic in 1976 ; with increased flexibility and resources it may now be possible to move towards a full-scale tracking exercise . |
| 24 | The artists lived as one extended bickering family and writers and painters who would never have seen each other before the war were thrown together . |
| 25 | Furniture should be versatile enough to suit different needs and situations which might well change over the years . |
| 26 | The easiest form of discrimination is to cut out all those outlets and publications which will obviously not be interested . |
| 27 | It would cut off electricity supplies to large parts of the South and cause flooding of polluted rivers and creeks which would then contaminate the entire region . |
| 28 | Much time was spent in the formulation of rules to lay down the alignments and éaulements which would best display each movement from the audience 's point of view . |
| 29 | As the new group begins to develop a clear idea of its own aims and objectives they might well decide to produce a video film of their own to explain their story . |
| 30 | Yet it is clear that there are enormous possibilities for offering a rich mixture of sounds and players which can only enhance public worship . |