Example sentences of "and [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 2 | What is important to note , therefore , is that governments often abruptly or gradually change their policies , generally around the mid-term of Parliament , and that continuities occur in spite of the parties ' starting out with different policies . |
| 3 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 4 | The Paris-based Office Internationale d'Epizooties ( OIE ) , which represents 120 countries , has accepted the principle that live trading could be resumed provided it were restricted to animals born after the feed ban — and that cattle born from BSE infected dams were excluded . |
| 5 | A minority believed that a large number of cases were based on minor grievances , and that complainants rushed to court in the passion of the moment . |
| 6 | Whitby and Willis further suggest that the demand for private transport will continue to grow in spite of oil price increases , and that losses arising from over-pricing of oil are disproportionately borne by rural residents . |
| 7 | Testers ' comments : Pamela : ‘ Heavy on the shoulders , and although Sam went to sleep he did n't look comfy . |
| 8 | Sixteen per cent of the survivors on the ground were then killed by three other insect species and although mortality declined with distance from the mother tree , it was not due to host-specific predation . |
| 9 | Sheffield went ahead in the forty ninth minute through Bryson , and although Mountfield equalised for Villa , seven minutes later , Dean restored the lead for Sheffield after sixty two minutes . |
| 10 | Although the force of custom and prevailing values may appear sufficient to account for traditional differences in the economic roles of spouses , and although people conforming to convention need not be aware of any financial motivation to do so , customary practice is reinforced by an economic rationale . |
| 11 | And if Iran comes to life , the whole picture in the Middle East will change . |
| 12 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 13 | But if it 's not required by law , then I can not issue , and if people ask for advice we are obliged under Fire Services , the Fire Services Act to give that advice , but what I 'm really saying is that with the , the pressure of work on the Fire Safety Department , it 's likely that if it 's a fairly low risk to life , we 'll never get round to it , and that 's the honest truth . |
| 14 | And if tutors go on strike because they do n't get more money , it certainly wo n't be the students who notice . |
| 15 | And since acquisition depends on communication , your deliberate delivery will impede your progress in learning the language as well . |
| 16 | Your friend told me they held vigils outside the Soviet embassies all over the world when I was arrested and when Sakharov went on hunger strike . |
| 17 | When the music is angry you can feel McGegan shaking his orchestra by their throats , and when Handel calls for celebration , he hands them sticks of candyfloss . |
| 18 | And when species differ in colour pattern , for example , it not at all infrequently turns out that it 's just one gene , or perhaps a couple erm I mean trituris marmaratis , which is rather a nice green newt , christatus , which is rather a nice black and yellow spotted newt , you can hybridize them and the difference is due to a single gene as far as the colour is concerned gene . |
| 19 | And when Linda returned to work at weekends when the twins were eight-weeks-old he took charge of all four . |
| 20 | And when Linda returned to work at weekends when the twins were eight-weeks-old he took charge of all four . |
| 21 | And when Crowe declared at lunch , England reappeared with the spectre of defeat hanging over them . |
| 22 | And when accountant agrees with technologist that the hardware is worthless , the computer industry waits in the wings with the next generation wonderbox . |
| 23 | He caught Duran with a solid left hook and when Duran grabbed for cover Leonard wanted to get out and back to his sniping post . |
| 24 | In his enthusiasm he lost his cap and when Beth stooped with difficulty to retrieve it , she almost lost her balance as he insisted on pulling her forward . |
| 25 | When Britain 's pound joined the ERM , the British should have consulted their partners about its chosen central parity of DM2.95 ; and when sterling came under pressure , they should have been prepared to raise interest rates sooner than they did . |
| 26 | Cross field and when track divides at edge of wood take right-hand fork . |
| 27 | He never again held office , and when Palmerston returned to power he was elevated to the peerage as Lord Llanover , from his estate near Abergavenny . |
| 28 | The intersection of the AD and AS curves shown in Fig. 13 illustrates a long-run equilibrium position in the neo-classical model . |
| 29 | All went according to plan and as Jesus came into view Zacchaeus could see him clearly . |
| 30 | Here were two superior intellects — " Cocky " with a vast Air Force-trained mind ( and as Bennett quoted in Pathfinder " … an energetic and conscientious man … no Air Force officer with more zeal … a magnificent-brain … " ) and I , as one who basked in the favour of them both , fully endorsed these views . |