Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large proportion of our birds are transient and sea-watches have shown westerly movements until late January and small easterly movements in March and April . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , dear , fathers and sons come to resemble each other , do n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | If a slight loss of quality and taste is the downside of English Hop 's work , the upside is that oils and essences have opened new markets for growers . |
| 4 | Oil-tig workers , export salesmen and servicemen have to manage part-time marriages , and so do their wives . |
| 5 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 6 | The collection of earrings , brooches and necklaces have attracted widespread interest from buyers at the International Spring Fair . |
| 7 | And researchers have recorded some birds returning each winter for twenty years . |
| 8 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 9 | An enhanced co-ordinating role is available to those capable of meeting this challenge , especially as the number of districts and units reduces and UGMs come to represent larger conglomerations of provider groupings . |
| 10 | More recent events and technologies have expanded this sense of fragmentation and discontinuity , contributing to a fractured , accelerated , plural life within a wayward , even apocalyptic history . |
| 11 | Despite the rhetorical overkill , terms like ‘ contamination ’ , ‘ infection ’ , ‘ implosion ’ and ‘ intertextuality ’ give a more vivid , because more visceral , sense of how the sheer proliferation and reach of new communication channels and technologies work to make all boundaries permeable . |
| 12 | The virus is easily transmitted via needles — and addicts tend to have dirty habits . |
| 13 | At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact . |
| 14 | Inevitably , employment prospects for young people have deteriorated and school-leavers have made increasing demands on the Youth Opportunities Programme in Wales . |
| 15 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 16 | In particular sales of kitchens and bedrooms have shown considerable increases and whilst we 're pleased with the response to our new products we remain cautious on the outlook for consumer expenditure . |
| 17 | This is not the place to repeat Wittgenstein 's rejection of such figments of linguistic bewitchment nor yet to deny that people and animals do have inner lives of pains , itches , tingles , thrills , and throbs . |
| 18 | Hence introduced mongooses ( plus cats , dogs , and rats ) have laid waste much of the native fauna of the Caribbean ( which is also threatened by horticulture and tourism ) ; and cats , dogs , and rats have driven several sub-species of Galapagos tortoise and Indian Ocean tortoises to extinction . |
| 19 | Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs . |
| 20 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 21 | Reeds , rushes and other marginal subjects like marsh marigolds and irises prefer to occupy shallow shelves at the edge of the pool . |
| 22 | PUBS and supermarkets have had 40 years of prosperity at the expense of farmers , according to Tory Langbaurgh parliamentary hopeful Michael Bates . |
| 23 | Its Guelf battlements and towers have witnessed many conflicts between Florentine and Sienese rivals first , and then between the Medici family and Florentine Republic later . |
| 24 | HIV and AIDS have highlighted fundamental questions of human rights — the right to travel , to seek employment and to be free of discrimination . |
| 25 | And technologists have applied scientific theories with some spectacular results : generating everything from nuclear power to moon rockets to holographs of the Eiffel Tower on Rice Krispies packets . |
| 26 | While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams . |
| 27 | In recent years , however , the situation has been changing significantly , and psychologists have made important advances . |
| 28 | The harmonic effect is therefore without the strong forward movement of diatonic music , and composers have used whole-tone harmony ( particularly in the Impressionist period ) to give tranquil , passive moods , and delicate colourings : |
| 29 | 1.2 The successful prediction and management of violent or aggressive behaviour follows from a partnership in which the resources and responsibilities of organisation , management and workers combine to maximise available information on client situations before contact and enable workers to feel confident , equipped and supported in their work with potentially difficult situations . |
| 30 | More recently Abraham and co-workers have extended this work to the helium-xenon system , where the helium partial pressure allows the degree of inhomogeneous broadening to be varied as a control parameter , with beautiful results { 3 } , and Mandel { 29 } had demonstrated theoretically that the Lorenz-model instability evolves continuously into the Casperson instability as the degree of inhomogeneous broadening is varied . |