Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 3 | His tears had frozen so that his cheeks and eyes continued to gleam with ice . |
| 4 | There has always been criticism , much of it unjust , that lecturers in colleges and polytechnics fail to keep in touch with school-based initiatives and developments and that college programmes are all too often divorced from the real world of school . |
| 5 | Only then during the forward swing can the legs and hips begin to work in harmony with the upper body in generating clubhead speed . |
| 6 | Green plants and trees need to take in carbon dioxide ( in a process called ‘ photosynthesis ’ ) so that they can manufacture carbohydrates and other materials . |
| 7 | Its destroyer , she says , was an unholy alliance of nationalists bent on creating a racially homogeneous Serbian state and ex-communists longing to stay in power . |
| 8 | The following day , Sunday 10 March , Action Committee members and friends started to forage for office furnishings and equipment from anywhere they could get them . |
| 9 | So what , if anything , do examinations and tests have to do with teaching , learning , or reaching the standards of excellence that supporters of selective systems are so fond of ? |
| 10 | Apparently , 15 and 16-year-olds have to remain in prison while the Home Office argues with the Department of Health over what is to happen to them . |
| 11 | The classification and relationship of functions within the discourse can again be represented diagrammatically , and students encouraged to think of discourse in spatial terms , as in the extract from Laird , where paragraph structure is analysed in functional boxes , each box corresponding to a grammatical unit or series of grammatical units . |
| 12 | This has provided coca growers with the training and tools needed to switch from coca to tea , bananas and livestock . |