Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be enough to make him lose interest but , if he persists , discourage him briefly and matter-of-factly , explaining that such words show bad manners and offend some people , who will like him less if he insists on using them . |
| 2 | At Kunstat we visit a ceramics factory , where you can try your hand at the potter 's wheel and buy some very reasonably priced pottery from their retail outlet . |
| 3 | Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that that is a remarkable achievement , bearing in mind the fact that Haringey is an inner-London borough and has all the associated problems ? |
| 4 | In other words , all religion and morality are the product of the class struggle and communism does indeed intend to abolish eternal truths , to abolish all religion and to abolish all morality . |
| 5 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 6 | The object of the present discussion has been to point out some of those characteristics and examine some of the questions arising in relation to interpretation . |
| 7 | That way chaos lies , but the Window are aware that the best tension is created from a structure being stretched and shattered , so they rein themselves into songs and mess that way . |
| 8 | Now the rhythm section 's so strong and permanent , we can almost deconstruct the songs and create more space in what we 're doing . ’ |
| 9 | The purchasers usually form an owners ' association and subcontract that to a management company . |
| 10 | Roundabouts and swings all the while . |
| 11 | by vigorous and confident campaigning Carter first succeeded in the Iowa caucuses and followed this by winning the New Hampshire primary of his party . |
| 12 | But it is likely that within the safety of the legal bond partners shake off some aspects of their public persona and expose more of themselves , particularly those problematic areas of their personalities with which unconsciously they wish to engage . |
| 13 | A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ . |
| 14 | Being a forestry contractor and spending most of my time in woods and moors , I need a tyre with a lot more traction . |
| 15 | The main difference for the very old , then , may be that whereas when they were younger it would have been possible to work through the effects of multiple grief and achieve some new balance in life , forming new relationships and so on , in old age this is less likely . |
| 16 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 17 | It is important that the whole family can recognise their grief and give each other emotional support . |
| 18 | A few simple heuristic rules are used to identify ‘ suspect ’ clones and probes and to find each probe 's neighbours simultaneously . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is still time to try again : insert a bud on the other side of the stock and cover all with the binding . |
| 21 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 22 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 23 | Andrew Kennedy , the Essex Under-17 hockey captain , hit powerfully ( 61 in 64 balls ) , in a drawn match against Berkhamsted and showed some promise as a seamer . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman must answer this question : how can he argue that it is in patients ' interests to move away from a system of competitive tendering and use that money to pay trade union members rather than to pay for extra treatment for patients ? |
| 25 | The first step was to completely drain the old pond and remove all useful fittings . |
| 26 | When his effects were sent back to Forres , John Keith said little but took the medals his son had won in battle and late at night , after his session at the Mason 's Arms , walked to the Mill pond and threw all four of them in , ribbons and all . |
| 27 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 28 | ‘ We can stretch our legs and have some coffee and something to eat , but we 'd better keep going , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The recruiting sergeant told them all to disembark , stretch their legs and grab another cup of char , and added that if they were lucky they might even get something to eat . |
| 30 | The inhabitants of Cairo often remove manhole covers and dump all sorts of rubbish , from old car tyres to building rubble , into the sewers . |