Example sentences of "and [noun] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 3 Do n't repeat wrong sounds and forms when correcting them . |
| 5 | Frederica said to Alexander , before he could say it to her , that there was an intrinsic problem in writing about artists , for how could he dramatise the battle with the colours and forms as opposed to the whore and the rival , the father , the brother , the nephew Vincent Van Gogh ? |
| 6 | Below : Ripstop nylon samples from Carrington Novare and Bainbridge as supplied to kite manufacturers for selection of colour and weight of spinnaker cloth . |
| 7 | Globally , the issue at stake is the complex relationship between Marxism and literature as exemplified in the life and work of a specific interwar French intellectual . |
| 8 | Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions , they receive no formal allowances . |
| 9 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 10 | Second , it can be concluded for both the UK ( Best , 1976 ) and for the EEC ( Best , 1979 ) that although there are major differences within countries , notably in the relative areas devoted to woodland and urban land , that there is a common pattern of land loss to both urban use and woodland as shown in Figure 8.1 . |
| 11 | Some British officials hoped that the judicial system would gradually gain acceptance and function as intended , but there was little opportunity for Sri Lankans to observe the principles which lay behind the rule of law . |
| 12 | He was full of minor nervous habits : an eye-twitch , a frequent snapping of the thumbs and fingers when reading or in conversation , a flicking of the tongue before starting a speech , and , in a rather different category , an addiction to putting objects , particularly books , but matches , pipes , paper knives and almost anything else as well , to his nostrils and audibly sniffing at them . |
| 13 | Intra-aortal 5HT , given at the same dose and route as had induced acceleration of ICJ transit , failed to significantly alter baseline absorption found during the ia infusion of saline ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 14 | Havelock is here , of course , giving authority to Goody 's distinction between ‘ oral ’ and ‘ literate ’ thinkers and their connection respectively with the concrete and experience as opposed to the abstract and impersonal . |
| 15 | Only by using as much knowledge and experience as resides in the whole school can both the broad issues of school management and the minutiae of its efficient operation be appropriately financed . |
| 16 | All told we 're adding maybe another 45 minutes to the journey using public transport and foot as opposed to using your own car . |
| 17 | The three segments function , and may be read , independently , but add further comparisons and meanings when seen together . |
| 18 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 19 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 20 | Your students will be prepared for each news item by structured discussion , and then helped with language and comprehension while watching ; after each item , they will practise and consolidate skills and vocabulary , through parallel reading and further exercises ; and finally they will be able to express themselves in follow-up writing tasks and communicative activities , such as making their own radio broadcast . |
| 21 | This is achieved by introducing two bends into the instruments ( Figure 11D , b ) and by tilting the instrument head and manipulator as shown in Figure 8 . |
| 22 | You are responsible for maximising performance by supporting and developing your people and for carrying out the full range of managerial duties and checks as prescribed . |
| 23 | Both the ITV broadcaster and the BBC are renowned for their programme archives which could attract new viewers to satellite and cable if promoted properly . |
| 24 | How could she say , politely , that she had better calls on her time and money than to devote either to mendicant little talents ? |
| 25 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 26 | Being prepared for the demands and requests while caring physically for the newborn helps forestall many problems ( Kitzinger 1979 ) . |
| 27 | At Belgo it 's the Belgian national dish of moules and frites while guzzling glasses of zesty , spicy Höegaarden blanche . |
| 28 | But now in every case justices have to give findings and reasons when making the order they do . |
| 29 | The group has access to a greater variety of experiences and skills than does one person . |
| 30 | This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses . |