Example sentences of "and [noun] [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) .
2 IDEC also employed a relocation co-ordinator between September 1980 and March 1981 to talk to each employee individually about problems they faced or might face as a result of the move .
3 Because RHS 1 and RHS 2 lie on either side of LHS , we know that the correct rm lies between 12 and 13 per cent .
4 In the circuit diagram , the inductor to be determined is represented as an inductance L in series with resistance R. When the bridge is balanced , equation ( 7.8 ) applies so that Equating real and imaginary parts reveals that the double balance conditions are and Since R 1 and R 4 appear in both equations , independent achievement of the two balance conditions is only possible through variation of just R 2 and C 2 .
5 Follow steps 2–7 above to indent from the left margin ; and steps 2–10 to indent from both margins
6 The Dutch cheeses Edam , Gouda and Leiden all belong to this group , although they may be sold at varying stages of maturity and the older examples will be harder in texture .
7 The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) .
8 In general the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) behave as low and high-pass filters respectively , the responses being given by equation ( 10.40 ) with the appropriate values of Z 1 and Z 2 inserted in each case .
9 Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category .
10 Feedback Your Letters To The Editor Sound , style , taste and harmony all appear in this month 's Feedback .
11 Very much in the spirit of the age , the hall , dining-room and drawingroom all open into each other with great double doors , so that you could entertain on a grand scale .
12 The more extreme alternative facing the panel is to match , or beat , the nine-game ban and £3,000 fine given to another Arsenal player , Paul Davis , in 1988 .
13 The primary tumour had allele loss on the long arm of chromosome 5 ( probe : Lambda MS8 , 5q35-qter ) and the short arm of chromosome 17 shown by the probe p144-D6 ( 17p13 ) but not by the probe pYNZ22 ( 17p13 ) , while the recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma had allele losses on chromosome 12 shown by Lambda 43 ( 12q24.3-qter ) and chromosome 17 shown by both p144/D6 and pYNZ22 , but no allele loss on chromosome 5 ( Table I , Fig 2a-c ) .
14 Potatoes , brown bread and cereals all help to this end ( pardon the pun ) .
15 I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy .
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