Example sentences of "[verb] and [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous demonstrations were held as war approached and after it broke out , the largest protest being on Jan. 12 when 40,000 attended two rallies in Paris . |
| 2 | The value of on-the-job training for junior staff should be maximised and where necessary different types of work ( or staff ) moved around the office to ensure an even distribution of basic knowledge . |
| 3 | Now eleven years on , she is still teased and when to her dismay she gets her first period , the girls start chanting and throwing tampons at her . |
| 4 | What , after all , could be wrong with providing at least some good schools in the inner cities , to which parents would be committed and where pupils would have to keep their heads down and work , on pain of being thrown out ? |
| 5 | All fungi require about 20 per cent moisture content in the host wood to germinate and although in new buildings the moisture content of the timber may be as high as 18 per cent , this is soon reduced to about 12–14 per cent by heating and ventilation of the enclosed spaces . |
| 6 | 8.8 If any sub-clause of this clause 8 is held to be invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law then it should be deemed to be omitted and if as a result either party becomes liable for loss or damage which would otherwise have been excluded then such liability shall be subject to the remaining sub-clauses of this clause 8 . |
| 7 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 8 | They can not tell us because they do n't know and because they are campaigning for power at any cost . |
| 9 | It was a while before these plans were divulged and when they were , Wilson 's first reaction was one of alarm . |
| 10 | Keeping your eye on court lists can also tell you something about the firms appearing and if a firm consistently acts for the plaintiff against health authorities you can be fairly sure that their specialism lies in medical negligence . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Where a right of action to recover land has accrued and after its accrual , before the right is barred , the land ceases to be in adverse possession , the right of action shall no longer be treated as having accrued and no fresh right of action shall be treated as accruing unless and until the land is again taken into adverse possession … |
| 12 | " If he 's not honest , he 'll know we 're afraid to come and if he is , he 'll think we 're suspicious , cowardly skulkers . |
| 13 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 14 | ‘ Every conceivable avenue has been pursued and while Rangers strongly regret what has happened , we have done everything in our power . |
| 15 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 16 | Since vitamin C is water soluble any excess is excreted and so you do n't have to worry about taking too much . |
| 17 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 18 | occupied and as you say , she 's she 's she 's in the , the nursing home and I mean , it 's same environment all the time so , she 's bound to dwell it on longer is n't she ? |
| 19 | We will ensure that the ES is a well managed organisation , where people want to work and where they can realise their potential . |
| 20 | We will ensure that the ES is a well managed organisation , where people want to work and where they can realise their potential . |
| 21 | Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays , when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open . |
| 22 | The rest want the bomb because it is the biggest bang that money can buy and because they mistrust their neighbours . |
| 23 | If in doubt , do n't buy and if you are suspicious ring the police and give them as many details as you can . |
| 24 | Why not see whether their opinions varied and whether , she thought distantly , her stars could tell her which way now to turn ? |
| 25 | The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . |
| 26 | ‘ It tells us nothing in terms of lessons that can be learned , what sort of materials were used for the curtains , whether a sprinkler system was installed and whether they worked properly . |
| 27 | When headquarters control extended to such mundane questions as whether a chemical or flushing toilet should be installed and whether surrounds should be grassed over or concreted , it is easy to understand the frustration of the engineers in the divisions . |
| 28 | The Dutch foreign minister , Hans Van den Broek , sees it as a step back to ‘ inter-governmentalism ’ — where the European Parliament does not count and where a weakened commission can not stop little countries getting clobbered by big ones . |
| 29 | By now finances were brightening and whilst still running at a loss , this was entirely because of spending on improvements . |
| 30 | Six Nocturnes are included and while hardly examples of the stylistic purity to which we have become accustomed in the post-Cortot era , are brilliantly alive with his own heady alternative . |