Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you allow me , Mr. Speaker , briefly to offer my deepest sympathy , by way of a supplementary question , to the families of those who were so horrifically murdered or injured both yesterday and today in Belfast ? |
| 2 | Most of these are basically simple , involving sitting or lying down comfortably and focusing awareness on a pleasing thought ( ‘ Still and calm … still and calm ’ or whatever ; or invent your own ) ; a soft ‘ nonsense sound ’ ( a mantra ) that you repeat under your breath ; on the rise and fall of your chest as you breath ; or successively on different parts of the body , starting at the toes and working upwards . |
| 3 | Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight . |
| 4 | They remove wood or paint very quickly and aggressively . |
| 5 | Really ugly doors can be replaced or left off altogether and the space widened to form an archway , although this will inevitably increase draughts and the demands on your heating system . |
| 6 | In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive . |
| 7 | As I mentioned earlier , when you get something that plays really easily and fast you wo n't necessarily get the best sound , and so on . |
| 8 | I do n't know if anybody 's ever seen those but you can actually have a computer at the side and a thing that sits on there and you can change and up on the screen it will appear what 's on the screen on the computer . |
| 9 | er , erm , speaking in favour of the motion against the amendment , quite strongly against the amendment because I do n't believe it moves that debate any further and the debate , as a number of speakers have said , will go on beyond this chamber , Chair . |
| 10 | But all that changed long ago and it 's no good yearning for what 's disappeared . |
| 11 | I arranged to come over here to do the research and a name that came up again and again was Munro — Brigadier Dougal Munro . |
| 12 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , they have to be negotiated ; and the schools that do this best are likely to be the ones that anticipate most realistically and plan most effectively . |
| 14 | See that closes up there and you can capture more if you want them to . |
| 15 | Deal with oil spills in a way that cleans up fast and settles up later |
| 16 | I have fair skin that burns very easily and barely tans . |
| 17 | ‘ I cross that bridge quite often and I am surprised the county council has let it go so far . |
| 18 | And in the end the nautiloids even survived the ammonites , the molluscan group that evolved more rapidly and more spectacularly than any other . |
| 19 | It has got inherent checks and balances , it has its own agreement , it is professionally run and there is no function for the president of the FISA here other than to turn up occasionally and literally be seen about . |
| 20 | Where there is some coloration of the water or fine silt settling very slowly , the water can be dosed at this stage with an agent such as aluminium sulphate , to produce a flocculent precipitate that settles fairly rapidly and carries down colour and silt . |
| 21 | Yeah , perhaps it 's just that I know some of the loonies that go up there and get what they want every time . |
| 22 | catalogue , that went up there and call in , call in with it did n't they Alec ? |
| 23 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 24 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 25 | Sally held her breath as Louise fastened the multitude of little hooks and eyes and tried not to notice the little roll of fat that squeezed out above and below it . |
| 26 | And then there is that tub of lovely unsalted butter that spreads so well and tastes sooo yummy . |
| 27 | Well I 've heard it before that a , said , said before that a , that , that the plant roots curl up to the surface to meet , rather than digging down deep and . |
| 28 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 29 | Only 10% go to Church in England , but that 10% , many of whom attend meetings during the week as well as Sunday service , represent the biggest single sector in British society that come together voluntarily and regularly in an intentional way that is focused on something to do with how human beings live their lives ( i.e. not sport ) . |
| 30 | They fanned out to make two webs of silvery trails that extended far above and below the lines of sight afforded by the shuttle 's windows . |