Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exact prices and postage and packing charges will be given on request . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Official encouragement , genuine popularity and a sense of purpose helped further heal the self-doubt and hesitation that had previously constrained British filmmakers . |
| 4 | You may like to add the name of one or two referees to your c.v. , either to vouch for your general honesty and reliability or to confirm that you have the skills and experience you claim in the c.v . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity : it affords protection to all beings , offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it . |
| 8 | Why did she collect the knives and forks and clear the table ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 13 | Gwrych Castle was offered rent-free by Lord Dundonald — who also made a grant towards rates and taxes and paid half the cost of repairs — a necessarily generous offer since the castle had been uninhabited for over fifteen years . |
| 14 | I walked up to Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben and said , " Can somebody teach me to ride ? " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nurses should encourage their elderly clients to take up sports and activities that develop skill and coordination , rather than strength , speed and endurance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was concluded that the media had no business either relaying bad news about government and party policies and activities or suggesting that alternative measures might be better . |
| 21 | His hands met a furry body and claws that flailed at him . |
| 22 | Oliver 's hell hounds are on his trail for sure , great slavering paisley-patterned beasts with saucer-sized eyes and claws that catch . |
| 23 | Then , as suddenly as lightning streaks through the sky , they 'd disbanded , scrabbled for their ropes and karasos and disappeared , shrieking , into the forest . |
| 24 | Not in a career sense , because the leaden weight that lay on her heart told her that his career was now Loxford with Quindale , Church End , New End and Snead until relieved by the trumpets of Doomsday , but as a person . |
| 25 | Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 27 | Gary broke a bone in his back , split his lip and sustained several cuts and bruises when trying to douse a blaze started by vandals in the quiet County Armagh village of Laurelvale . |
| 28 | A Celtic deity associated with their craft was Tanaris ( or Taranis ) , the sky god , responsible for lightning and thunder and equated by the Celts with Jupiter . |
| 29 | Add red pepper and chilli and saute for two minutes . |
| 30 | The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them … |