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

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1 We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country .
2 Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle .
3 Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it .
4 Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March .
5 At night the city throbs with life , and bars , restaurants , clubs , discos and cinemas operate into the early ( and late ! ) hours of the morning .
6 In either case the aim is to discover what processes and phenomena result from the physical laws governing the dynamics and expressed by the equations .
7 The fruit of the yew is important in the autumn and winter for mistle thrushes , redwings and fieldfares , which feed on the soft flesh , while greenfinches and bullfinches feed on the hard kernel .
8 The cupola and pendentives descend to the great flat sides , pierced by semi-circular headed windows and the arcades below .
9 Major importers and exporters rely on the Cast Blue Box System to help boost productivity .
10 Management 's efforts to devise new industrial relations strategies and styles appropriate for the changing circumstances are the subject of chapter 6 .
11 Doctors and paramedics work with an elaborate system of reports and an information center , the nurse 's station on the patient 's floor .
12 The auctioneer 's rights and obligations arise under the other two contracts .
13 Receiving a script , which bears all the writer 's material on the right hand side of the page , the Director 's stage directions to his cameras and microphones go on the left hand side .
14 The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction .
15 While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it .
16 ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector .
17 ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector .
18 After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed .
19 The arrivals and departures list for the next day should be typed and copies distributed to all departments .
20 A number of columns , capitals and bases survive from the different buildings periods , including the Ionic capital ( PLATE 5 ) dating from the 300 B.C. work .
21 The immediate family and carers go through a chronic grief process alongside the need to go on caring for and sustaining a person who is slipping away , cognitively , behaviourally and emotionally .
22 History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match .
23 Manufacturing techniques and finish are the same ; nuts and bolts come from the same vendors .
24 If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease .
25 In no time at each treefall saplings and ferns sprout in the shallow crater left by the spread of the roots .
26 The reds and browns come from the carotenoid pigments which then come into their own .
27 We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis .
28 Data on consolidated government revenues and expenditures come from a different source , and are differently classified .
29 The smells of incense , fruit , flowers and spices mingle in the hot air .
30 Multiple viewpoints and motivations lie behind the apparent singleness and consistency of official behaviour ’ ( Kogan 1981 , p. 165 ) .
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