Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boromir , son of the steward of Gondor , falls prey to the Ring and almost kills Frodo in his desire to have the Ring and wield it in order to do good . |
| 2 | The KPMG survey of Information for Strategic Management ( 1990 ) shows that information provided to directors and senior executives of Times Top 1000 companies concentrates on financial indicators and only compares performance against internal self-determined indicators . |
| 3 | He is also a keen tennis player , running the men 's winter league at his club and even makes time to teach cycling awareness to youngsters at nearby Holmer Green . |
| 4 | Acts in a similar way to the mini-pill and also stops ovulation . |
| 5 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 6 | Some large international banks offer their customers export factoring services whereby the bank despatches debtor statements to importers and ultimately collects payment . |
| 7 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 8 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |
| 9 | The Group also organises training courses for young solicitors who wish to join or who have recently joined commerce and industry and strongly encourages participation in such courses . |
| 10 | The face begins to swell and the eyes to protrude with the cough and then comes oedema between the eyelids and the eyebrows , even to the extent of a little water bag forming . |
| 11 | However , the Act of 1988 does not govern access to quotas but the registration of fishing vessels and therefore affects access to all sea-fishing activities , including fishing for species not subject to quotas . |
| 12 | He is a top-priced 4–1 with Victor Chandler and also shares favouritism with Dr Devious at 16–1 for the Ever Ready Derby on June 3 . |
| 13 | This protein binds very poorly to the canonical octamer sequence but binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT motif and degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs and also induces DNA bending upon binding to these motifs . |
| 14 | North passes and so does East . |
| 15 | At home Keith is a naughty boy and frequently has breath holding tantrums to which his parents have responded by smacking and shouting at him . |
| 16 | At home Keith is a naughty boy and frequently has breath holding tantrums to which his parents have responded by smacking and shouting at him . |
| 17 | The event was originally held in September , was moved to July and now takes place either in June or July with the exact date varying from year to year . |
| 18 | It requires the professional to maintain an ongoing positive relationship with the parents and so improves communication and parental satisfaction . |
| 19 | The Directive however does not attempt to assess the bargain which the consumer has made under the contract and therefore excludes assessment of the unfair character of terms which relate to " the main subject matter of the contract " and " the quality/price ratio of the goods or services supplied " . |
| 20 | The Northern Ireland Secretary , Sir Patrick Mayhew , stated after a detailed review : " I am satisfied that the UDA is actively and primarily engaged in the commission of criminal , terrorist acts and so merits proscription . " |
| 21 | supervises change over of free-choice activities and then monitors maths group and two language groups ; |
| 22 | The interior was never sufficiently plastic close to the surface for long enough to cause widespread geological activity such as Plate Tectonics , largely because the Moon has a large ratio of surface area to mass and thus loses heat relatively rapidly ( section 2.1.16 ) . |
| 23 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 24 | He insisted on returning to his old school , where he passed his exams and regularly plays football . |
| 25 | In addition , this method takes account of tracer recirculation and therefore allows analysis of the deconvoluted curves by area under the curve as a measure of blood flow . |
| 26 | Enthusiasm and the Hawthorne effect — the stimulant of something new and exciting produces extra enthusiasm and normally enhances effectiveness — ‘ all educational experiments succeed ’ . |
| 27 | As he develops his theme , he concurrently reviews a wide literature and continually suggests plant and animal groups which will provide tests of alternative hypotheses . |
| 28 | These are the new risers from Cellblock — they spread out making a wider area against the deck , which means more shock absorption and also reduces pressure on the deck making it less likely to snap your plank near the trucks . |
| 29 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 30 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |