Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lad heard curses and hollering coming from the kitchen and , on entering the kitchen discovered the victim feet up in the vat , and Jarman cursing in pain and rubbing spattered fat from his face . |
| 2 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 3 | Soviet studies underlined that historically neutralised and demilitarised territories had often been created on the basis of unequal treaties and had resulted from the inability of the colonial powers at a given period to agree to the direct partition of a colony . |
| 4 | Situated on the coastline of Omura Bay near the City of Nagasaki , the town of Huis ten Bosch covers an area of 1.5 million square metres and has risen from the ground in less than eight years . |
| 5 | While clearly pointing out that these moves do not ensure women 's rights , and that the struggle for women 's liberation will carry on long after the setting up of an independent Palestinian state , Women 's Committees are encouraged by these developments and determined to learn from the mistakes made by women involved in other national liberation struggles , for example , in Algeria , where gains made were lost after the revolution . |
| 6 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 7 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
| 8 | Some normal household policies do not include cover for fish tanks and damage arising from the water which will inevitably pour on the floor . |
| 9 | The weird genre is one of the richest in science , including such gems as Von Daniken 's Chariots of the Gods ( extraterrestrial astronauts seeding the Earth with intelligent life ) and Branko Bokun 's Man the Fallen Ape ( humans are the result of interbreeding between chimpanzees and orang-utans and have evolved from the laziest apes ) . |