Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
| 2 | However , if your elderly parent has no telephone and neither of you can pay for one , you should contact the local authority social services department , who are empowered to provide assistance towards the cost or , in some cases , free telephones for disabled housebound elderly people and others , under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 , although the extent of need is determined by the local authority in the light of resources . |
| 3 | You now standing on my right are the person I left on the bench , and you on my left are someone else , and neither of you can deceive me any longer . " |
| 4 | What we choose to call this event depends upon factors such as its magnitude : we speak for instance of accidents , emergencies , disasters and catastrophes , each of which carries connotations concerning the scale of the event and each of which will have a set of human and/or environmental consequences . |
| 5 | There are nine genes , and each of them can take any of 19 values . |
| 6 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 7 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 8 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 9 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 10 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 11 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 12 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 13 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 14 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 15 | They were to be renamed Colleges of Education ; a new degree , to be called Bachelor of Education and validated by the universities , would be introduced for their more able students ; they should be removed from the public sector and closely linked with the universities ; and some of them should become universities in their own right . |
| 16 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 17 | But they do occur , and some of them could have been avoided . |
| 18 | Er yes , yes , some of them will come and some of them will go , and er |
| 19 | And some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to try to find out . |
| 20 | They are prolific meeting-goers who ca n't do the job themselves and some of them will become consultants later in their careers . ’ |
| 21 | After about 3 weeks , more of the larvae will have turned into pupae and some of them will have hatched into adults . |
| 22 | Now , some of them will come from the Labour Party , and some of them will come from other associations not yet formed — I accept that as well — but I say this : in whatever shape these new forces manifest themselves , they will come from you , the despised students of humanity . ’ |
| 23 | They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod . |
| 24 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |
| 25 | so that when it er , come apart you would have some of it together and some of it would bond together so that you could do it yourself then . |
| 26 | Our own experience in writing this chapter has confirmed our previous experience that this material is in short supply and widely dispersed , and some of it will disappear altogether if it is not soon collected . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll be glad to stretch your legs for a bit longer in Thunder Bay , and some of you might visit your horses . ’ |
| 28 | Er , we heard yesterday from some of your phone calls , and indeed we heard , and some of us may have seen on the television news on Wednesday evening , the desperate plight that many Iraqi civilians are now in . |
| 29 | Such a change should have the effect of reducing the number of apparently aimless mergers among large firms , and this in itself might help to ameliorate the bandwagon effect on all firms during merger waves . |
| 30 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |