Example sentences of "and [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason the campaigning elements of the organization — and that includes many of the 80,000 British members who undertake to be active on Amnesty 's behalf — have increased and refined their methods over the years . |
| 2 | There 's only one solution , and that is to destroy the picture . |
| 3 | And that was all there was to it . ’ |
| 4 | Everywhere , transistors give off the Reggae beat , making the place a party that never stops , and that might catch fire . |
| 5 | A sense of mystery and futility is imparted by events at the Grange and on the Ridge , and that sense is heightened by what takes place in the city when the party catches fire and rioting breaks out . |
| 6 | Enthusiasts for explanation , however , might want to explain that this ‘ darkness visible ’ tends to obscure and diminish what deserves to be understood , and that , for him , there are important countries and unimportant countries , and that the coups and riots of the latter are severely diminishable . |
| 7 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 8 | They describe three falls : that of the Emperor Haile Selassie , that of the Shah and that of the colonial masters of Angola . |
| 9 | And I think it was right to argue that the book has its ‘ strict disclaimers ’ and that goodness of heart , chiefly Jenny 's , is defensively displayed amid a welter of misconduct . |
| 10 | ‘ We can and must fight to see that the fruit of labour remains in the hands of those who work , and that work does not turn into punishment . ’ |
| 11 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 12 | And I will have you and that fault withal ; |
| 13 | And that is what I found . |
| 14 | And that means in a way one never stops working . |
| 15 | And that was a tense business . |
| 16 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Always remember that they have asked to see you and that is what they want to do . |
| 18 | It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything . |
| 19 | There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence . |
| 20 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 21 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 22 | There is a strong case for arguing that the dominance of Roman catholic high clergy in the determination of key value ingredients in catholic — nationalist consensus in the South is in a state of change , and that certain aspects in particular are being challenged . |
| 23 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 24 | As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) . |
| 25 | This is the moment and that is all . |
| 26 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 27 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 28 | It is canvas and paint , he typed , and that is all . |
| 29 | As though in every life , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg returned to his typing ) , if enough work has been done , enough determination shown , there is one final large summary , and that should be enough . |
| 30 | And that is perhaps the way they all want it . |