Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 3 | Dressed in well-cut suits , and hats that cover shaven heads , they hawk copies of their newspaper , The Final Call , and hand out petitions calling for Louis Farrakhan 's right to enter Britain . |
| 4 | Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ? |
| 5 | In the case of an over-large meal this would mean that the slim people would put down their knives and forks and leave some food . |
| 6 | Communities seem to want airfields and pilots around , so they do n't load them with the penal rates and taxes that lead to high parking and landing charges as in this country . |
| 7 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 8 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 9 | It 's not just that your inability to go out is restricting your life ; as you say , your daughter is missing out on many of the events and activities that help a child 's emotional and social progress . |
| 10 | Nurses should encourage their elderly clients to take up sports and activities that develop skill and coordination , rather than strength , speed and endurance . |
| 11 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 12 | Oliver 's hell hounds are on his trail for sure , great slavering paisley-patterned beasts with saucer-sized eyes and claws that catch . |
| 13 | Add red pepper and chilli and saute for two minutes . |
| 14 | One is to give all the children obstacles such as sacks , boxes , old tyres , ladders and ropes and give them the opportunity to make up their own course . |
| 15 | The idea is to eliminate words and definitions that suggest discrimination , on grounds of sex , colour and even height . |
| 16 | But it is the Duchess herself who most obviously embodies those qualities of courage and fidelity that act as an antidote to the surrounding evil . |
| 17 | Recognise coins and notes and know that 100p = £1 . |
| 18 | Today 's agricultural and forestry methods have caused a decline in broadleaf woodlands and coppices , affecting the animals and birds that inhabit them and the general landscape . |
| 19 | It seems to be valid for virtually all animals with backbones , with a few exceptions : kangaroos , lions and birds that waddle ( but more of them later ) . |
| 20 | A number of other mammals and birds probably also disperse a very small proportion of the seeds , while two parrot species are the important seed predators among several mammals and birds that destroy seeds . |
| 21 | The insects ( mainly Lepidoptera ) and birds that do so can not directly sense the superior environment of the north ( in the spring ) , but its superiority , on average , is guaranteed by the predictable changes of the seasons . |
| 22 | The charts given here are a little misleading , because Deneb has to be drawn on one section and Vega and Altair on the other , but the overall aspect is obvious enough . |
| 23 | There has been a consistent failure to direct the fruits of growth to the areas , industries , and groups that need it most . |
| 24 | One important structural relationship is that between bureaucracies and groups that represent particular interests . |
| 25 | The same names and groups that have already featured in the discussion of the provincial press therefore appear again as owners of local radio . |
| 26 | He described Nato as a forum where Western countries would work together to negotiate agreements between East and West and see that they were implemented and verifiable . |
| 27 | It makes it very difficult for women to take that first step on the ladder of actually becoming economically active , because they 're caught in an impossible position between the needs of their children and their own personal needs , and until we actually look at the important and validate and give financial support to the caring role that women play , both in terms of looking after the children and looking after elderly relatives , this community care that is being talked about — community care is car on the backs of women , and it 's unpaid and undervalued . |
| 28 | The elaborate carving and tiling that clothes most traditional architectural forms ; the row of badges and lamps that decorate the grille of an enthusiast 's motorcar , the roses and shrubs in front of a suburban house ; all act as buffer zones between differing activity spaces . |
| 29 | have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things . |
| 30 | The culture-ideology of consumerism produces the values and attitudes that create and sustain the need for the products . |