Example sentences of "[verb] and [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the court considers that a matter has not been disclosed and that matter might have affected shareholders ' decisions on how to vote , it is unlikely to sanction the scheme ( see , for example , Re Jessel Trust Limited [ 1985 ] BCLC 119 and Re MB Group plc [ 1989 ] 5 BCC 684 ) . |
| 2 | Management won and this official himself took redundancy in November 1986 . |
| 3 | But at the time , as one American policy was ending and another beginning , Vietnam seemed to be exempt from similar considerations . |
| 4 | In the most colonial species this chase is omitted and all courtship occurs at the nest . |
| 5 | Well , one would never know and either way the effect was the same . |
| 6 | Just lies and more lies . ’ |
| 7 | Some signals must be scrambled and some homes supplied with unscramblers to limit access , for instance to extra subscription services . |
| 8 | Now , after at least two more rewrites and little interest from European or American sponsors , a new incarnation of the script is promised , this time with Schnabel proposed as the screenwriter and director . |
| 9 | The defendants ( who had admitted negligence ) had increased the risk of particular damage occurring and that damage had occurred . |
| 10 | We 've got the replacement council tax to come and many people are still unhappy . |
| 11 | The observation was pursued and many compounds were examined for activity against viruses in culture , and in infected animals . |
| 12 | The presence of significant amounts of haemoglobin F has a protective effect against sickling and such individuals express relatively mild disease . |
| 13 | However , on Monday morning , 29 April 1991 , I discovered that the seating in the office ( Room 3.14 ) had been rearranged and that cigarette ash was over the meeting table and one of the chairs . |
| 14 | The problem seems to be that it is fundamentally about attitudes to work and such attitudes are subject to an inextricable and non-monotonic range of influences not only from work itself , with all the pressures of technological change , but also from prevailing economic , social and cultural changes in the community generally . |
| 15 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 16 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 17 | It is not really a cost of living index since many goods of a luxury nature are included and several items ( e.g. income tax , insurance premiums , etc. ) for which it is hard to identify ‘ units ’ of sale are excluded . |
| 18 | Limited provisions for fluctuations are included and some choice is given to the employer in the subcontractors to be employed for specialist work . |
| 19 | It seems that while everybody does dream during REM sleep , most dreams are forgotten and some people forget more readily than others . |
| 20 | ‘ His brain was bruised and many bones in his head were broken , ’ Mr Maguire told Preston Crown Court . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 22 | There are numerous opportunities for an idea to be dropped and few occasions for it to be carried through . |
| 23 | I attend an adult evening class at Queen 's and all winter the heat has been so intense that jumpers , cardigans and jackets have had to be discarded and all windows and doors opened . |
| 24 | The Labour government proved unwilling to pursue a more overtly socialist approach ; physical controls acquired during wartime were eventually discarded and those industries that were nationalized , such as steel and the railways , were basically essential and loss-making concerns . |
| 25 | But then in 1980 , it was attacked and many members were killed . |
| 26 | The house was attacked and another IRA activist escaped without injury . |
| 27 | By now , the fantasy has somewhat abated and some reality has entered the relationship . |
| 28 | First we want to ask anyway whether there is n't likely always to be some truth which , if it alone were added and all others excluded , would defeat my justification . |
| 29 | Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice . |
| 30 | This technique allows the salesperson to remind the buyer of the main points in the sales argument in a manner which implies that the moment for decision has come and that buying is the natural extension of the proceedings . |