Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most controversially , they recommended stronger police powers to search and arrest brothel-keepers and make soliciting on the streets illegal . |
| 2 | He also thought of Dame Agatha 's smiling face before drifting into a dreamless sleep , leaving Ranulf and Maltote to argue over the fortunes of dice . |
| 3 | This will stay in our nature until we become aware of the process and let go of the chains that pride puts around us . |
| 4 | Another feature of dolphin skin which could offset turbulence and accelerate movement is a system of dermal ridges ( similar to those that make up our fingerprints ) which are found beneath the skin on the back and flanks of most cetaceans , and seem to correspond to the patterns of water flow . |
| 5 | In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . " |
| 6 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 7 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |
| 8 | A complete insight into how Northampton 's local evening newspaper is produced and the chance to see the Chronicle and Echo rolling off the presses . |
| 9 | If they overcome these guards , and manage to break into the cages , the adventurers still have the difficulty of getting into the chests . |
| 10 | Highlight the first block of text and get rid of the italics . |
| 11 | ‘ Slow down , take care and drive according to the conditions . |
| 12 | The owners were not content for this much power and control to reside in the hands of the craftsmen , and Stone details the strategies they used to break the union and replace the jobbing/sub-contracting arrangement by an employment relationship . |
| 13 | Some approaches , including the conventional account of the industrial revolution , certain Marxist analyses and business-oriented researches , appear to emphasize productive forces as the prime mover , and are concerned with consumption only as the outcome of capitalist interests and the problem of ensuring that desire and demand correspond with the needs of industry . |
| 14 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 15 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |
| 16 | You could begin your essay by acknowledging this and continue to work with the definitions throughout the essay , relating the different definitions together in the conclusion . |
| 17 | Whelks have developed a radula on a stalk which they can extend beyond the shell and use to bore into the shells of other molluscs . |
| 18 | I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall take Rosie or Violet and try to get through the drifts and reach Aumery Park Farm . ’ |
| 20 | He no longer felt the need to borrow cars and go lifting round the shops to relive the boredom . |
| 21 | By digging ditches and placing objects in them and in the surrounding soils , it is possible to assess how finds move and become mixed as the sides of the ditch weather and collapse inwards , carrying the finds with them . |
| 22 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 23 | Paradox , ambiguity and doubt emerge as the themes of Oulton 's new work , from the shifting focus of the small ‘ Saturations ’ of red , to the listing horizons in the ‘ Abstract with memories ’ series . |
| 24 | For , while editorial priorities and earth-shrinking technologies can and do work against the interests of the war 's officialdom , the degree to which even the less servile sections of the media provide a platform for coherent dissenting views is incredibly limited . |
| 25 | I fear that it will cause great panic in the City and in America and do harm to the Allies . |
| 26 | You go to the bed , put down the umbrella and start looking in the drawers and cupboards built into the wall units surrounding the head of the bed . |
| 27 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 28 | He also wants the Palestinians to accept a compromise and agree to return to the talks in Washington in April . |
| 29 | She had gone in and looked at that picture and come running down the stairs crying , with her hands up to her face and the tears pouring . |
| 30 | The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state . |