Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is both the ‘ dear deceit ’ which goes back centuries and the curse peculiar to modern-day society . |
| 2 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 3 | A ghostly flame which hovers over bogs and meadows at dusk in rural Finland . |
| 4 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 5 | It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power . |
| 6 | No library can be effective without a policy , which sets out aims and objectives , identifies user groups and services , and indicates priorities amongst them . |
| 7 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 8 | The work will be carried out by an alliance formed by Genesis Engineering , process and safety engineering consultants , and MacGregor Engineering which carries out fabrication and installation work . |
| 9 | The DTI operates the Warren Spring Laboratory ( Appendix 2.1 ) which carries out research and development in the fields of minerals and metals recovery and provides a consultancy service in these areas . |
| 10 | As Prest and Turvey ( 1965 , p. 688 ) state : ‘ Construction of a fast motorway , which itself speeds up traffic and reduces accidents , may lead to more congestion or more accidents on feeder roads if they are left unimproved . ’ |
| 11 | The faces around her suppliant , wary — she is in a benevolent lull , she measures out wit and wisdom . |
| 12 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 13 | Highly ambitious and competitive , she takes on responsibilities and makes decisions in a conceptual and intellectual manner . |
| 14 | She picks up tones and drifts rather than actual words . |
| 15 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 16 | Well she comes up Friday and on Saturday . |
| 17 | The first verse concludes : We live at our pleasure , and take our delight ; We heapeth up riches and treasures great store , Which we get by griping the poor . |
| 18 | I think in general terms , we were having a discussion only the other day , and thinking of possible applications of one form of another of microprocessors , only very generally I might add , but if we thought of an application which would save paying someone 's salary on a weekly or monthly basis , then that would be attractive for obvious reasons , you know , that the sort of when one totals up wages and salaries over a full year then that 's a significant saving to be made and therefore it justifies the initial investment cost in whatever the system might be . |
| 19 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 20 | First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake . |
| 21 | The left asserts that far from helping the poor it props up capitalism and embodies unacceptable forms of social control . |
| 22 | As the gas leaks out of the coiled chamber it picks up water and forms a mist around the singer 's head . |
| 23 | Boots has given this product a rating of four stars , which means it filters out UVA and UVB equally . |
| 24 | He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them . |
| 25 | It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture . |
| 26 | Somebody comes in and runs a separate form puts all their customer and all they 're doing is when the orders change they just put the and it prints out notes and labels and if you 've got hundreds of them it saves a job in time and money and the girl . |
| 27 | If it 's not them , then the house is buried in thousands of paper slips on which he works out leagues and fixtures for his absurd postal blow-football competition . |
| 28 | As to where a company resides which may be relevant for some purposes , a company or corporation resides where it carries on business and it can reside in more places than one ( Davies v British Geon Ltd [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 389 ) . |
| 29 | It leaves out place and circumstance , the powerful and unconscious drive of material interests and class identity . |
| 30 | We also know that the construction industry offers few ‘ local jobs ’ : it brings in contractors and sub-contractors from all over the country . |