Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Its body is held upright and what was the dorsal fin has become an undulating rear engine , which with the help of whirling pectorals on either side , enables it to move erect and stately through the corals and weed forests .
2 It appears that mainframe manufacturing and that of the chips that go into them will bear the brunt of the increase in voluntary redundancies and plant consolidations announced by IBM Corp last week — and Wall Street , which typically greets news of cuts as positive , is not at all happy with the latest round .
3 He advised them , for their own safety and that of the women and children present , to leave the area .
4 This can only be due to Coleridge 's awareness and heightened sensitivity at these moments , which cause him ponder on his very means of creation and that of the emotions that cause him to write , which are therefore in a positive sense creative forces .
5 Oh erm they erm they did a lot of the work that were Well they helped out at least , they they used to make wearing plates for the mills and that for the chutes and that .
6 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
7 He picked up his journal and leafed through the parchments until he found a certain sheet , then read it through in silence .
8 Harry drew the wallet from his pocket and leafed through the pictures until he found it .
9 The third outer layer consists of protein which is very thick and sticky in the ascaridoids and is important in the epidemiology of this superfamily .
10 The archipelago of Madeira consists of the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo , which are the only inhabited ones , the Desertas , which are the islands close to and visible from Madeira , and the Selvagens , to the south-east and nearer to the Canaries than to Madeira .
11 The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day .
12 I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky .
13 Under the heading ‘ paper ’ we shall consider the uses , and some of the dangers and limitations , of documentary sources such as historical records , diaries , biographies and autobiographies .
14 And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance .
15 This chapter explores some of the learning opportunities provided by the ward and some of the problems that may arise .
16 I have mentioned Janis and some of the others and we could add to the list — Heather Couper , the astronomer , for example .
17 The weather has been wonderful and some of the monuments and art are amazing .
18 Similarly Roy Griffiths was right when he pointed out that many management tasks are the same in any organisation and some of the differences that the public administration camp stress can be overcome .
19 Such successful companies as Nalco , in the USA , and some of the companies that ICI has bought recently from the Beatrice group , in the speciality field , discovered this secret many years ago .
20 However , it is true that government policies ( or lack of policies in some areas ) have contributed significantly to our problems and some of the changes that are now in the pipeline will almost certainly make matters worse .
21 There 's a tremendous enthusiasm , partly I suppose because they do n't want to be left behind in the , the new technology , but I think , more positively , that they see the advantages and some of the benefits that may come from having these machines in their classrooms .
22 It was heavier than he expected and he had to remove the milk bottles and some of the tins and make a separate journey with them .
23 The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point .
24 The intention of the partners will be clearer , and some of the difficulties that can otherwise arise may thus be avoided .
25 Children start the day in a more relaxed way and do n't go to assembly ; they have larger toys ( Duplo rather than Lego ) ; and some of the tables and chairs have been removed to make more room .
26 There 's an Englishness about us , but there 's also so much about us which is American , like the haircuts and some of the clothes and the organ which is like Texas garage music .
27 I get to act out all the horrors and pressures of fame , and some of the things that I worry about in my own life are purged .
28 And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know
29 Some of the things in the Maastricht treaty do n't make a lot of sense and some of the things that are not controversial for example , do n't make a lot of sense unless Europe does grow .
30 And some of the things that are coming through there , are common sense , some of the things are a reaction which erm , is mis-informed .
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