Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power .
2 Well I saw a pair of trousers in there and they were about erm four pounds fifty and shirt which was one pound fifty !
3 In January , February and March there was deep snow , but we still had to spend an hour outside every day .
4 There was Sammy and Davie and and er from Comely Bank , Willie and Jim they were all Stevedores and Andrew and They were stevedores you see a lot of .
5 In liquids and solutions there are several factors leading to broadening of the vibrational band , even in the absence of rotation envelopes .
6 He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate .
7 There were two daughters of the marriage : June , who was seventeen when Jack was born , and Lorraine who was two years younger .
8 David Hirst , Alan Shearer and Lineker himself are typical examples but Wright — like Paul Gascoigne — has so much potential he simply is not yet aware of his capabilities .
9 and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning .
10 Whatever the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism there is little doubt that financial matters play far too important a part in their affairs .
11 There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish .
12 Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’
13 Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them .
14 In Australia and Canada there were 2 people per square kilometer .
15 No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons .
16 I remember the gypsies or didycoys congregating outside their favourite pubs in Milford Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays which were both Market Days .
17 Purchasers and vendors who are listed companies should seek guidance from their solicitors and other professional advisers concerning Stock Exchange requirements at a very early stage in any transaction .
18 The river too was uniformly dark apart from the ripples and eddies which were thin ribbons of light .
19 But it would be wrong to see The Waste Land as ‘ controlling … ordering … giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history ’ in the way that Eliot believed Ulysses did .
20 Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing .
21 Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe .
22 Despite these demotions and exclusions there was little trouble with the Conservative Party over the actions which its leaders had taken , inevitably without much consultation .
23 Finally , the problem-orientated approach encourages clarity of thinking and planning which are essential ingredients in good patient care .
24 In addition to clear definitions of energy , power as the rate at which energy flows , and efficiency which is any ratio of energy flows , Odum and Odum ( 1976 ) propose three principles of energy flows ; the law of conservation of energy ; the law of degradation of energy which introduces entropy as a measure of technical disorder to signify the extent to which energy is unable to do work ; and the principle that systems which use energy best survive , which is the maximum power principle or minimum energy expenditure principle .
25 Henry Cave 's Guide to the island 's railways described the station at Ohiya as being like somewhere in Cornwall , and at the hill stations of Nauwara-Eliya and Nanuoya there were distinct efforts to reproduce English country stations .
26 And , Hal , from Chester I must go north to the march as fast as I may , for Walton sends me word there are new raids threatening , and it 's his belief and mine there are French knights serving there with Douglas . ’
27 To this extent the nation still acts as the overriding social group whose existence serves to contain the most damaging effects of the conflict and factionalism which are daily occurrences at lower levels .
28 He next became assistant refinery manager and was then promoted to general manager over the head of a friend and colleague who was ten years older .
29 It 's not chicken and egg it 's two things interacting , that 's how history actually operates .
30 Where households are made up of husbands and wives there is more emphasis ( compared with say Bethnal Green ) on sharing tasks and sharing friends .
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