Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
2 | Do n't panic about a squint that comes and goes in the first few months , though , as this is quite normal and happens because she has n't developed binocular vision yet . |
3 | But unless quality and productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds by the early 1990s , then Dagenham is unlikely to have a future as a car production plant . |
4 | For the school library , through books , films , recordings , and other materials , goes beyond the requirements of the instructional program , and unfolds for the many private quests of children and young people the imagination of mankind . |
5 | As no force acts on η 3 it remains in the extended state , and corresponds to the non-recoverable viscous flow ; region . |
6 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
7 | The stream , on its way to join the River Ure , has its origins on Abbotside Common and passes through the small hidden village of Cotterdale , a community unseen and unsuspected from the main road , the only access to it branching off as a gated strip of tarmac . |
8 | With a few minor amendments ( such as the deletion of paragraph numbers and cross-references to the relevant numbered paragraphs in earlier chapters ) they are presented as they appeared in the final report . |
9 | A short mile further on , the road passes over the stream , Ais Gill , issuing from the impressive limestone confines of White Kirk , hidden by the railway viaduct and unseen and unsuspected from the road which continues uneventfully down the valley and arrives at the compact little community of Outhgill . |
10 | Between these two stable points the composition tilts and weaves through the various clustered groups and knots of interest , reaching its climax in the prostrate figure of Nelson . |
11 | Bottle-wrack looks the same and grows in the same straggly way . |
12 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
13 | This beautiful area of West Wales extends from the shores of Carmarthen Bay and takes in the magnificent Towy and Teifi Valleys . |
14 | This is as far as you can get from Cupitt 's picture of a reactionary , static super-tyrant [ in his Taking Leave of God ] always making sure the universe remains the same and conforms to the old unchanging laws . |
15 | I detest the economist Ramón Tamames , who condemns the broken engagement between the two multinationals MOMA and MNCARS ; who criticises the Reina Sofía 's ‘ weird ultra-avantgarde artistic creations ’ and yearns for the musty progressive reproductions of ‘ Guernica ’ . |
16 | The suits , jackets , trousers , shirts and ties from the Paris-based Japanese designer have been a mainstay of the shop for some 10 years . |
17 | Although the position of the mouth indicates it is a bottom feeder , it does rise to the side to feed enthusiastically on the freeze-dried tubifex and swims in the lower middle areas of the aquarium . |
18 | This represents a massive 2% cut on previous rates and compares with the existing average mortgage rate of 8.5% and fixed rates of between 7.2% and 7.75% . |
19 | It is also the linkage which is attacked by simple chemicals , such as bleaching powder , which are used by laundries , and accounts for the gradual weakening of shirts in the wash . |
20 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
21 | It will be devoted to a re-assessment of his life in the light of recent research — and coincides with the Scottish National Portrait Gallery exhibition ( which ends 8 Oct ) . |
22 | It also imports and exports to the three main dialects of the . |
23 | The basic idea is a simple one and follows in the Downsian vote-maximizing tradition , suggesting that those in office , conscious of election dates , manipulate the economy to achieve political popularity . |
24 | She shrugs off her dressing-gown and slips into the little single bed beside me , warm and naked and already wet . |
25 | By the Congregational Church he gets off , and walks along the small gravelled cul-de-sac to their old house . |
26 | Loss of data was therefore small , and analyses with the last available assessment for each subject did not indicate that any bias had been introduced . |
27 | The mountains swing away to the east , running into Venezuela , but the volcanic chain after a short gap in the dreary and fever-ridden jungles of the Isthmus of Panama , reappears in full vigour in Costa Rica , and extends throughout the Central American republics of Nicaragua , El Salvador and Guatemala , which are by reputation as unstable and explosive politically as the many volcanoes that they contain . |
28 | The illustrated example was also found in Hertfordshire , and dates from the late 1st or early 2nd century AD . |
29 | item No 2 : is a candle snuffer of the type used with a candle dish and dates from the late 18th century . |
30 | A high level of mobility in the structure allows for continuous interchange of roles and ideas , and retains for the Unified National Command the closeness to grass roots that is required to make it truly reflect people 's wishes and sentiments . |