Example sentences of "and [vb base] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We can go and visit Senga and thaim in Southern Rhodesia .
2 Every year particular species arrive and disappear , and change in absolute and relative abundance .
3 The effects of technical advancement and change in industrial structure on material handling requirements of firms in South Wales
4 Self reported smoking behaviour ( backed by saliva sample ) and change in relevant health knowledge , beliefs , and values .
5 The general social action approach thus emphasises fluidity and change in social interaction ; it has a conception of the individual that emphasises people 's creativity and capacity for innovation .
6 The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts .
7 The first year History course provides pupils with an introduction to the knowledge and skills necessary for a balanced understanding of the emergence of early modern societies , a knowledge of continuity and change in Medieval Europe and an awareness of the heritage which has contributed to the world in which pupils grow up .
8 Development and change in everyday likes and dislikes
9 Recent research reveals the importance of kinship and lineage in non-human primates .
10 The arrow , expressed as a wedge form , can minimise turbulence and drag in supersonic flight and in automobiles travelling beyond about 75 mph ( 120 km per hour ) .
11 Ken had a ringside seat for one of the most explosive and widely publicized bouts of homosexual love and hate in recorded British history — the lives and deaths of playwright Joe Orton and his lover , Kenneth Halliwell .
12 The third section of Demant 's 1936 Christian Polity ( Faber & Faber ) is given over to anthropological essays , such as ‘ Idols : Their Place and Influence in Religious History ’ where again we meet the names of Elliot Smith , Tylor , Ellis , Frazer , McDougall , Robertson Smith , and others .
13 a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase .
14 In the context of the community power debate , a pluralist methodology implied analysis of observable decision-making processes , and the conclusion was that power and influence in American urban politics was far more widely distributed than the Hunter power-elite thesis suggested .
15 Afro-Caribbeans may be reviled as ‘ niggers ’ , but their musical forms and stylistic innovations exercise considerable fascination , attraction and influence in popular culture ( Jones , 1988 ) .
16 By the early 1970s the struggle was over , and the decline in the Chiefs of Staff 's activity and influence in national affairs was soon being reflected in the steady drop in the frequency of their meetings .
17 The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom .
18 Cotte ( 1982a : 138 ) describes the contrast between oblige and make in different but complementary terms .
19 There is no shot in them , they are undamaged and remain in first-rate condition .
20 The nearer a satellite is to its sun , the faster it has to travel if it is to counter the sun 's gravity and remain in stable orbit .
21 Blanch in boiling water quickly and refresh in cold water , drain .
22 The large arrowhead marks the position of the furrow that separates midbrain and hindbrain in normal embryos ( b ) and the position where the furrow is missing in antibody-injected embryos ( a ) .
23 While structural units such as /?/ , / Ε/; and /a/ in low-status urban Belfast speech cover a wide phonetic range , variants are constrained by phonetic environment in a highly regular fashion .
24 By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language .
25 Has been a member of the Publicity Sub-Committee for about two years and is very interested in the progress of the Society in particular and in Movement and Dance in general .
26 As they expand and gain in political significance , they may act to constrain the actions of their own host governments : reciprocity will be needed .
27 It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions .
28 Countering bias and artifact in scientific research
29 Those who score highly overall on Machiavellian behaviour will be characterized by the use of guile and deceit in interpersonal relationships , by a cynical view of other people and by a lack of concern for conventional morality .
30 The visitor pressures at Younger , Dawyck and Logan Gardens are much less severe , since these Gardens are all some way from major population centres , and Younger and Dawyck in particular have the acreage to provide for visitor dispersion .
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