Example sentences of "and [noun] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of an over-large meal this would mean that the slim people would put down their knives and forks and leave some food . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 3 | Recognise coins and notes and know that 100p = £1 . |
| 4 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 5 | It makes it very difficult for women to take that first step on the ladder of actually becoming economically active , because they 're caught in an impossible position between the needs of their children and their own personal needs , and until we actually look at the important and validate and give financial support to the caring role that women play , both in terms of looking after the children and looking after elderly relatives , this community care that is being talked about — community care is car on the backs of women , and it 's unpaid and undervalued . |
| 6 | We were wearing wetsuits , helmets and lamps and carrying ex-army ammunition boxes that were watertight and into which had gone the cameras and flashguns we were going to use to photograph the mine . |
| 7 | However , there is a fundamental difference between pooling sovereignty on trade and agriculture and pooling economic sovereignty . |
| 8 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 9 | When it 's been a bad time and we sulk and grunt and ignore each other , I close my eyes and remember it all . ’ |
| 10 | As they scratched and bit and fought each other , Rory remembered Jessica , and worried about the marks his skin would bear , but he did not worry long . |
| 11 | However , those who learn all they can about loss , grief and change and apply that knowledge to themselves are the ones who eventually emerge as stronger and more compassionate people . |
| 12 | Researchers at IBM have built an experimental p-channel mosfet that uses both silicon and germanium and delivers high performance . |
| 13 | The committee needs to be large enough to provide a mix of skills and experience and to permit fruitful discussion encompassing different viewpoints , but small enough to take effective decisions with reasonable speed . |
| 14 | A FOOD safety directorate is to be set up in the Ministry of Agriculture to co-ordinate research and monitoring and improve public awareness of food issues , Judy Jones writes . |
| 15 | They seemed to stretch back into the hillside as if they might , at some stage , cease to become manmade buildings of stone and wood and brick and become ancient caves ; tunnels that would penetrate deep into the earth 's core . |
| 16 | They requisition and loot and arrest so-called Nazis and Fascists . |
| 17 | It seems there might be a move afoot to align the internal interfaces of Mach and Chorus and bring some compatibility to the microkernels . |
| 18 | Microsoft and Apple have also endorsed the combination of Open Database and Apple Data Access Language , via Apple 's Data Access Manager : Apple intends to build , distribute and support a Macintosh ODBC/DAL client that will translate Open Database calls and information into Data Access Language functions and requests and enable Open Database applications to access DAL servers , and will develop an ODBC/DAL client for Windows , which Microsoft is to distribute and support . |
| 19 | What is there to preserve so carefully ? ’ — and returns and lays thirty roubles on the table . |
| 20 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 21 | The delimited field thus consists of agents and institutions and involves three types of struggle — those between ‘ makers ’ of art ( between , say , makers of consecrated art , makers of avant-garde , heretical art , and makers of ‘ middle brow ’ art ( ‘ art moyen ’ ) such as photography , cinema , and jazz , which also is struggling for consecration by the institutions ) , those between makers and ‘ marketers ’ ( in essence the institutions ) , and those between marketers . |
| 22 | William Kirby was ordered to be ‘ confined on bread and water for a week for abusing the Master and Mistress and uttering horrid oaths and imprecations at the directors ’ . |
| 23 | a sketch of a page for printing showing the position of text and illustrations and giving general instructions . |
| 24 | These were the only things on the Sorrento that got me down ; at night they sallied from every crack and crevice and nibbled dead skin on the soles of my feet . |
| 25 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 26 | They have inertia , mass and momentum and obey centrifugal force . |
| 27 | The installed base of ‘ medium-sized ’ systems , which are priced between $18,000 and $1m and include most workstations , grew 9% , to 218,000 units . |
| 28 | ‘ The Inter-Regional Group called on all voters to adopt resolutions at rallies and meetings and to send letters and telegrams and find other ways to support the demand , ’ Tass reported . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , Sir John , if we find nothing this afternoon then I agree , we should record verdicts of suicide and murder and leave this matter alone for we are making little progress . ’ |
| 30 | Public investment will modernise services , help business and industry and stimulate private investment . |