Example sentences of "and [verb] are [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes over time to things that are seen and heard are powerful forms of stimulation for young infants , and the main purpose of the research is to explore systematically infants ' ability to detect and respond to such change . |
| 2 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 3 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 4 | A software development environment and multiprocessing are extra . |
| 5 | The first chart is an ideal courtship , Physical intimacy and cost are low , while communication and blending are high . |
| 6 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 7 | LOOK and LISTEN are key ideas . |
| 8 | It is distinct from non-data-ink , which can be erased without loss of information : gridlines and hatching are good examples . |
| 9 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 10 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 11 | Manualists , by contrast , believe that signing and fingerspelling are essential tools in the learning process and that lipreading and speech are , in any case , beyond the capacity of the majority of deaf and dumb children . |
| 12 | Oralists believe that every deaf child of normal intelligence can learn lipreading and speech , and that signing and fingerspelling are harmful to a child 's learning process . |
| 13 | Order and tell are like get but simply evoke more specific means of obtaining a result . |
| 14 | Weaving , crib-biting , biting ( general vice ) and kicking are typical vices . |
| 15 | Moving something is a reversible operation , but mixing , cutting and breaking are irreversible . |
| 16 | Updating and deleting are straightforward . |
| 17 | The ways in which honour is formed and assessed are numerous . |
| 18 | Powers of acceleration and braking are remarkable , the latter far greater than any car . |
| 19 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 20 | Windsurfing and waterskiing are available , and there is tennis on the public court . |
| 21 | Bathing and waterskiing are available a few minutes walk away . |
| 22 | Arguments about voluntarism and giving are apt to get confused with arguments about mixed economies of welfare and plurality of provision . |
| 23 | Most of us seek to preserve independence in matters in which the bodily functions of urinating and excreting are concerned . |
| 24 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 25 | An empirical orientation to change and a conditional relationship between governors and governed are long-standing characteristics of political life . |
| 26 | Duplication and bickering are endemic . |
| 27 | More enamel is rasped off the upper outside edges than the lower inside edges because the bit and tack are likely to rub here . |
| 28 | Weeping and sobbing are natural and appropriate responses to grief and our body is designed to provide the capacity and to use it creatively . |
| 29 | even though characteristic ways of feeling and behaving are habitual , they can be controlled and , if necessary , unproductive ways of feeling and behaving can be replaced with more satisfactory ones . |
| 30 | ( c ) Appropriation and obtaining are similar concepts . |