Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 2 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 3 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 4 | ‘ The bulls going to Perth are selected for the suckler men and tend to fit into a tight price band . |
| 5 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 6 | Well over a hundred friends had been invited to luncheon at Woburn Abbey , but they were sworn to secrecy , and asked to arrive by a special route , so that no one went past the house . |
| 7 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
| 8 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 9 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 10 | Practically every device of the movies started as a special effect and became assimilated into the everyday language of film , just like metaphor in language . |
| 11 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 13 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 14 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 15 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 16 | This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level . |
| 17 | The chairman of Wyre has his own boat and goes fishing on a regular basis . |
| 18 | Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20 , 1990 , announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO , withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference . |
| 19 | For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution . |
| 20 | Seagram , one of the world 's largest wines and spirits companies , stepped in and agreed to help save the National . |
| 21 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 22 | Trapping is a method which meets with limited success and involves feeding within a specialised wire cage for a period of time . |
| 23 | The decreased total protein and amylase turnover rates are probably a result of a reduction in synthetic rates as the time taken for labelled total protein and amylase to appear in the duodenal juice was significantly longer in the the post-acute pancreatitis patients . |
| 24 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 25 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 26 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 27 | Her soft hands were so unaccustomed to such hard work that it became — temporarily , Miss Mates said , until they hardened — difficult for her to help with the fine sewing , and the darning and repairing needed in the little house . |
| 28 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
| 29 | The only access to the basement was down a flight of steep steps , and involved ducking under a low ceiling . |
| 30 | The deaths are the latest in an epidemic which was first identified in Ireland and has swept through the eastern Mediterranean [ see EDs 49/50 , 51 ] . |