Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adj] " 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 | He planted trees in carefully placed clumps and had two huge lakes created near the palace . |
| 3 | Many police officers will want to remind the Home Secretary as he prepares his response to the Sheahy report that they take special risks and deserve special treatment . |
| 4 | A motion from the Selly Oak constituency says reform is needed to curb health risks and to stop growing violence . |
| 5 | Second , by pooling their financial resources , the merging companies may enjoy better creditworthiness and access to cheaper borrowing , enabling them to take more risks and finance larger research projects . |
| 6 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 7 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 8 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We sang songs and ate foam-tasting cinnamon pastries at gaudy roadstops , in places shaped like bugs with high modern bridges above the road . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now the rhythm section 's so strong and permanent , we can almost deconstruct the songs and create more space in what we 're doing . ’ |
| 14 | Today , kd lang is changing her tune again , forsaking country music for torch songs and giving free range to a voice that reaches from Alberta to Berlin . |
| 15 | They said the South Africans were ready ‘ to do business ’ with many of Darlington 's exporters and said further meetings to discuss trade links were planned . |
| 16 | On July 29 the government had unveiled its New Industrial Policy ( NIP ) providing tax exemptions to exporters and allowing foreign investors 100 per cent ownership of any venture except those , including arms and defence equipment , exclusively under government control . |
| 17 | Roundabouts and swings all the while . |
| 18 | by vigorous and confident campaigning Carter first succeeded in the Iowa caucuses and followed this by winning the New Hampshire primary of his party . |
| 19 | I also have severe loss of hearing in both ears and wear two hearing aids . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | They are fleetingly referred to in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian stelae and became popular as servants — and as passive sexual playthings — in the degenerate days of the later Roman Empire . |
| 22 | A few simple heuristic rules are used to identify ‘ suspect ’ clones and probes and to find each probe 's neighbours simultaneously . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have always found frogs and toads abhorrent . |
| 26 | This involves nothing more than putting right the small faults such as leaks , poor control settings and using excessive temperatures or times for various energy consuming activities . |
| 27 | The most striking results have been achieved precisely by shedding conventional settings and mounting fine stones in such a way as to display their inherent qualities with the minimum of encroachment . |
| 28 | The machine holds 12 place settings and has quick-wash and low-temperature economy wash as two of its eight programmes , £359.99 |
| 29 | Fitted with Zanussi 's Aquasave water , detergent and energy-reduction system , the machine takes 12 place settings and has seven programmes , a rinse-and-hold facility , quick-wash , wash without drying ( to save time ) and a low-salt indicator light . |
| 30 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |