Example sentences of "[verb] and [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing girl did not see as much of her mother as she would have wished and less of her father . |
| 2 | This uninhibited tourist did not look like the Frankenstein monster whom many Americans had expected and some of them began to wonder if they had got Khrushchev and his modest and dignified wife wrong . |
| 3 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 4 | There were different sorts of T-shirts , each with an image and a slogan or comment on the status quo , some of which Malcolm designed and some of which were designed by Bernie and Malcolm together . |
| 5 | Well they 've they 've obviously varied and most of them are economic based . |
| 6 | Barnes was laughing as he climbed out of his cockpit , and pointed at the huge hole in one wing-root made by a cannon shell and another through the opposite wing . |
| 7 | Wards are mixed and many of us only see a nurse at meal times . |
| 8 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 9 | Harees was there along with a haunch of lamb , rice of various kinds , date mixtures , a lamb stew gently spiced , two thermos of fresh , cardamom-flavoured coffee and one of orange juice and a row of neat little red jellies , each carefully decorated and each in its own glass cup . |
| 10 | All the bread and rolls we used and most of the cheese were donated by surrounding shops and hotels . |
| 11 | Backbenchers moved 3510 amendments , only 171 being carried and most of these were not opposed by the government . |
| 12 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 13 | Books of triplicate checks are issued to the following staff , and in each case , one copy is sent to the control office for checking and another to the reception office as a source for charges on the tabular ledger . |
| 14 | They er were recommended And most of the they were clean jobs . |
| 15 | The possibility of cheating and some of the issues which it raises have been more formally explored by Barro and Gordon ( 1983 ) and Barro ( 1985 ) within a Phillips curve framework . |
| 16 | Marcus parsers behave in a strictly deterministic manner ; no backtracking is permitted and all of the structures created by the parsers are permanent . |
| 17 | Also , sets were organised and much of the set decoration such as trucks , cars , and period pieces were stored and prepared for use in the film . |
| 18 | Haverford was laughing and some of his audience nodded solemnly , as though they understood . |
| 19 | you know and you 'd stand on the doors then , ooh , you 'd be really chilled and some of them opened the door an inch |
| 20 | This case could be regarded as an example of the first presumption applying and neither of the exceptions being relevant . |
| 21 | the westgate with part of the wall as far as particular upright stone in the said wall , between the said gates and the standing stile and steps belongs to Chew Stoke and is repaired by the parishioners thereof ; the other part home to the poor house is repaired by the parish of Chew Magna ; the east side is repaired and half of the wall and stile by the parish of Stowey ; the other by the parish of Norton … |
| 22 | No summary data are presented and some of the individual trials did not measure quality of life at all . |
| 23 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 24 | And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin . |
| 25 | The last one received and all within the round |
| 26 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
| 27 | All the nodes were manufactured and all but one was delivered ; however , the parties did not finalise agreement on the price or the terms to govern the contract and S retained the final node at its factory , pending agreement . |
| 28 | As long as we accept that there is a limit to what can be done and that in no way 's detracted from fire station . |
| 29 | Five different brush types can be selected and each of these can be in any width from 2 pixels to 32 pixels in steps of two . |
| 30 | Tiny bas-relief cameos are produced by the unique processes of figuremaking and ornamenting and many of the subjects are taken from Greek and Roman mythology . |