Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And although there are large numbers of people happily and effectively working with the same standalone , two-dimensional , text-based products that came free with their PCs several years ago , in the world of corporate computing a little more is needed .
2 In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general .
3 HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs .
4 In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture .
5 The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern
6 In some of these shops I observed one or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with the latter , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … struck with this novelty , I enquired , " whether the ladies of this locality shod horses ? " but was answered , with a smile , " they are nailers " .
7 She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps .
8 Finally , it is worth mentioning the possibility that the traditional sadness and dejection with which the first crops were cut in Egypt , or the seed was sown in Greece and elsewhere originates in the same unconscious depressive complex .
9 Because they they 've condensed it and just put in a few little bits and pieces !
10 In these respects Frith/Moll is represented in the tradition of the warrior woman and the folk figure of Long Meg of Westminster , both of whom distinguish true morality from false , the proper man from the braggart , and finally submit to the former ( Shepherd , Amazons , esp .
11 He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's .
12 Notoriously strong , due to enforced national service , and generously funded for the same reason , French Army sides of the past have launched international careers like that of Eric Vergniol , who this year switched to rugby union .
13 Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) .
14 She gazed back mutely into his eyes , horrified and deeply aroused in the same instant , and when she did n't turn away he began to move once more , slowly at first , and then with gathering force and swiftness .
15 Normally , when there is a single mother cat , each kitten is the ‘ owner ’ of its own personal nipple and always returns to the same nipple every time it feeds .
16 ( ‘ I pointed out to my boss that we could run the business straight and still pull in the same sort of money , but he said straight money did n't spend right . ’ )
17 The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower .
18 A note of the fact that they have started out equally separated from each other , are now marching in parallel straight lines , and we need to check later that they are still separated by equal distances and still going in the same direction .
19 On the other hand , and directly related to the latter , whereas in the known sector females were three times more likely to have been introduced to heroin by their partner rather than a friend , amongst the snowball females , just as many females were introduced by a friend as by a partner .
20 Eva did her best to " spark everybody up " and probably trod on a few more toes in the process .
21 In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection .
22 The observed differences are local and mainly restricted to the former metal sites and their environment .
23 Free milk to pupils was abolished in 1981 and now applies to a few very special cases .
24 Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations .
25 She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded .
26 In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars .
27 Today the company has moved on , trying to cohabit with such bedfellows as hundreds of small software firms , or investing in specialist ‘ business partners ’ IBM has learned to cooperate at least a little , and even sold off a few businesses — but the company continues to have an exceptionally coherent set of beliefs and behaviour patterns .
28 The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts .
29 They are basically undifferentiated and frequently led by the same class teacher over a 10-year period :
30 Knowing that the carp will not have as much energy as when I first hooked it , I pile on the pressure in no uncertain terms , and the fish swings round and immediately makes for the same lily bed it took refuge in previously .
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