Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 2 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 3 | Each kiln takes a ton and a half of wood … and produces about a quarter of that weight as charcoal . |
| 4 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 5 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 6 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 7 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 8 | Small centres of excellence are a good idea ; and bringing together a group of experts in a subject could produce some interesting research . |
| 9 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 10 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 11 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 12 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 13 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 14 | He stayed at the hospital until 1949 , when a Bloomsbury House visitor reported : ‘ He looks extremely well , but unshaven … he is in an open ward and has quite a lot of freedom … |
| 15 | He seems to be settling in well , and has quite a lot of contact with Richard . |
| 16 | She does high-impact classes 2-4 times a month , dabbles in Callanetics and swam once a week for a month . |
| 17 | Er I think in an age of such individualism er the whole natu nature and possibility of common confession of faith becomes difficult er and I 'd simply ask that , if it 's going to go ahead and consider possibly a confession of faith , that the panel er might give consideration to the difficulties gen gen generally involved in er the , the question of common confession of faith today . |
| 18 | The Luggage yawned , and moved forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 19 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 20 | In 1798 Caballero , ‘ the enemy of enlightenment ’ , swept the intellectuals and ‘ Jansenists ’ from office and instilled anew a fear of France and progress in the court . |
| 21 | And cut quite a bit off the top |
| 22 | He is current chairman of Cleveland Art Society , which has around 100 members and meets once a week at Middlesbrough Art Gallery . |
| 23 | He was dropping one of his tools and let forth a number of obscenities . |
| 24 | Bob caught her by the shoulder and used his own to wipe her face , while John turned on the woman and let loose a volley of dismissive French . |
| 25 | It includes a commitment to create five new national parks by 1996 , and to set aside a total of 12 per cent of the country 's territory as " protected areas " for wildlife . |
| 26 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 27 | So , I wonder whether er , as ari er , a matter arising out of this , erm er , the director of education could , erm er , perhaps address this issue and put forward a paper to the next education committee . |
| 28 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 29 | Much to our confusion , the entire boat crew is Polish and speak scarcely a word of English . |
| 30 | The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres . |