Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the first type relies on the information provided by the second which polishes , refines and leads to a redefinition of the problem . |
| 2 | Seeds of such a size remain in its gizzard for a little time while the rind is stripped off them and then later , perhaps when the bird has returned to one of its habitual perches , the nutmeg is regurgitated and falls to the ground . |
| 3 | Locke thus belongs to the tradition of contract theory which usually carries with it an implication of ultimate political power and rights belonging to the people ; and the fact that he explicitly develops and allows for a right of resistance also gave his doctrine a subversive potential of which later radicals made effective use . |
| 4 | Regarding the customer as all-important is an attitude of mind that he develops and encourages through the organization . |
| 5 | Another ‘ subcultural ’ -type theory that stresses deprivation and develops and draws on the work of Merton and Cohen is that of Cloward and Ohlin . |
| 6 | The kraken is generally believed to be a type of giant cephalopod which normally lives and feeds at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 7 | Harris , who lives and works on a farm , pleaded guilty to speeding at 62 mph in a 30 mph zone . |
| 8 | Marjanov 's early training as a machine-fitter was followed by a period of study with Megert at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf , where the artist now lives and works in the Ratherstrasse artists ' collective . |
| 9 | When the polyps are retracted the polypary looks and feels like a piece of wet leather , hence the common name for these animals . |
| 10 | He looks and sounds like a man who feels he can beat anyone in Ireland these days . |
| 11 | ‘ She looks and moves like a winner . ’ |
| 12 | The feeling that England stifles and smothers and crushes like a steamroller over everything fresh and green and original . |
| 13 | The effects of retirement can only be understood on an individual basis , its significance depending upon a personal interpretation of the value and importance of work , and what the individual wants and expects from the rest of his or her life . |
| 14 | A personae whose presence moves through time and space , whose physicality dissolves and re-emerges under the glare of our scrutinising gaze ; completely public , yet retaining its privacy intact . |
| 15 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 16 | The study complements and builds on the work , mainly on urban and industrial populations that has been conducted in the course of the Scottish Social Structure project developed in the Department of Sociology and the Research Centre for Social Sciences since 1980 . |
| 17 | The main road now climbs and winds towards the village of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos ( 14km ) , past many attractive modern villas and vines growing on trellises . |
| 18 | Under the 1961 Constitution executive power is vested in the President , who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | The administration consists of an executive President who is directly elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 20 | The Constitution provides for an executive President who is directly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term , and who appoints and presides over a Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 22 | The President appoints and presides over the Council of Ministers . |
| 23 | The President , assisted by two Vice-Presidents ( or , in extraordinary circumstances , one Vice-President ) appoints and presides over the Cabinet . |
| 24 | When he thinks thoughts that enhance the good emotions , then the body responds ; if those thoughts are conducive to compassion , then a feeling of warmth occurs and spreads through the mind . |
| 25 | ‘ She shoots and fights like a boy , but there is something different about her . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you never heard of the Geimhreadh 's pincer hands that hold her victim 's phallus in place and have you never heard of her darting pronged tongue that licks and pierces into the shaft of her victim 's phallus ? ’ said the Robemaker , softly and insinuatingly . |
| 27 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 28 | There is a Victorian farmyard , complete with farm implements , a working forge and a display of butter churns , pats and stamps from the turn of the century , when Boscobel was still a working farm . |
| 29 | A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way . |
| 30 | A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way . |