Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls .
2 Inevitably the first two months of 1951–52 promised little or no improvement and the directors decided that Dawes and his colleague would have to go .
3 The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence .
4 However , it is important to note and counter the limitations of mainstream approaches to management training , with their top-down assumptions , their tendency to exclude all but the head and senior staff , and their focus on strategies at the expense of educational purposes .
5 Readers are also referred back to figure 5.1 and the Bogue and Buffa V-curve .
6 It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions .
7 Conversely , Orientals and Africans rarely mutilate their pets for cosmetic purposes , but the trimming of puppies ears of certain breeds to make them stand erect or the breaking and subsequent resetting of the tails of American saddle-bred horses is , or was until very recently , a common practice in American dog and horse-show circles .
8 Weapons will be broken open and the plutonium and uranium stockpiled or processed .
9 If they own their homes , they are likely to have little or no mortgage and some will have inherited property on the death of their parents .
10 He was going to go and get Janine and the baby and if necessary drag her to the flat in Westbourne Park .
11 Secondly , priority needs to be given to establishing structures that will enable all general practitioners to be involved in influencing the views of the purchasing authorities , including those who have hitherto expressed little or no interest and those who already have a clear interest in participating .
12 His aunt had little or no English and Edward the merest smattering of a few isolated Welsh phrases .
13 They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights .
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