Example sentences of "and [noun pl] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of an over-large meal this would mean that the slim people would put down their knives and forks and leave some food . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 3 | Recognise coins and notes and know that 100p = £1 . |
| 4 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 5 | We were wearing wetsuits , helmets and lamps and carrying ex-army ammunition boxes that were watertight and into which had gone the cameras and flashguns we were going to use to photograph the mine . |
| 6 | Microsoft and Apple have also endorsed the combination of Open Database and Apple Data Access Language , via Apple 's Data Access Manager : Apple intends to build , distribute and support a Macintosh ODBC/DAL client that will translate Open Database calls and information into Data Access Language functions and requests and enable Open Database applications to access DAL servers , and will develop an ODBC/DAL client for Windows , which Microsoft is to distribute and support . |
| 7 | What is there to preserve so carefully ? ’ — and returns and lays thirty roubles on the table . |
| 8 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 9 | The delimited field thus consists of agents and institutions and involves three types of struggle — those between ‘ makers ’ of art ( between , say , makers of consecrated art , makers of avant-garde , heretical art , and makers of ‘ middle brow ’ art ( ‘ art moyen ’ ) such as photography , cinema , and jazz , which also is struggling for consecration by the institutions ) , those between makers and ‘ marketers ’ ( in essence the institutions ) , and those between marketers . |
| 10 | a sketch of a page for printing showing the position of text and illustrations and giving general instructions . |
| 11 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 12 | ‘ The Inter-Regional Group called on all voters to adopt resolutions at rallies and meetings and to send letters and telegrams and find other ways to support the demand , ’ Tass reported . |
| 13 | He hated cases that required painstaking enquiries over months and months and had little prospect of solution . |
| 14 | He built fortifications , aqueducts , bridges , theatres and baths and planned whole cities . |
| 15 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 16 | More exercises and more repetitions are not the answer to correcting poor arm development — it is better to do fewer exercises and repetitions and to take more rest . |
| 17 | A few simple heuristic rules are used to identify ‘ suspect ’ clones and probes and to find each probe 's neighbours simultaneously . |
| 18 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 19 | It chartered military planes to transport passengers , allowed the airlines to charter foreign aircraft and crews and recruit foreign pilots , allowed some international carriers to carry passengers on domestic routes , and provided financial support to the airlines to keep other employees in work . |
| 20 | The journal carries audio-visual , book and parish programme reviews , keeps catechists and teachers up-to-date with vital research in the area of RE and catechetics and gives useful ideas on teaching the faith from round the world . |
| 21 | The independence Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly on Feb. 9 , 1990 [ see p. 37176 ] , contained strong safeguards relating to human rights and liberties and placed considerable limits on the power of the executive president . |
| 22 | Tony ate his meat and potatoes and drank two cups of strong , sweet tea . |
| 23 | He holds a number of directorships , is a member of learned institutes , an author , is a recipient of many awards and honours and hold many offices , including some as chairman in a wide range of organisations , including some in the voluntary sector and many concerned with education and training . |
| 24 | At some stage in almost every case it is worth while pausing to review transactions , to consider afresh the erstwhile or present relationship between client and parents and to apply this consideration to the current social worker-client relationship . |
| 25 | Where the ‘ boss ’ tended to be autocratic or paternalistic/maternalistic , the ‘ managing director ’ was more likely to be bureaucratic , delegating specialist roles and responsibilities and instituting formal procedures for decision-making . |
| 26 | Clear and agreed definitions of the functions and tasks of each agency and each worker need to be identified , and agreed boundaries established so that all workers know their own roles and responsibilities and understand each other 's . |
| 27 | 2 IN THE PUBLISHING AGREEMENT the Company agrees to procure that the Authors undertake various duties and responsibilities and provide various services to the Publisher . |
| 28 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 29 | My mood was briefly lightened by the arrival of a tuna group of university students in traditional academic robes decorated with flying coloured ribbons who played guitars and mandolines and sang cheerful folksongs , accompanied by the antics of a virtuoso tambourine player . |
| 30 | Our economy continues to advance , to become more technological , to bring out new products and ideas and to develop new industries . |