Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 2 | Keating described the budget as a consolidation of the government 's policy which was succeeding in " slowing the economy without impairing longer-term growth prospects or jeopardizing the economic and social advances of recent years " . |
| 3 | A clause which defines or clarifies the antecedent and is essential to the meaning of the complete sentence . |
| 4 | In this context , it should be noted that best execution would not apply , unless one of the SFA members is acting as intermediary for or advises the other and the client firm does not waive it . |
| 5 | Little attempt , until quite recently has been made to relate all this material to the site-stratification , or to consider the social and economic evidence these artefacts could give us if related to particular periods or parts of the site . |
| 6 | Under option six , called ‘ other goodies ’ , you can analyse the data to report on the success rate at a particular fishing spot , or investigate any one angler 's record , plot water temperature versus the date , or find the full and new moon dates for a given year and month . |
| 7 | In a time of economic recession such as that of the early 1990s , there is a strong case not only for low interest rates but also for increased public expenditure , especially on roads , bridges , airports and other civic needs , and on unemployment compensation and welfare payments , all to employ or protect the unemployed and those otherwise adversely affected . |
| 8 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 9 | Flaubert was a vehemently reactionary anti-Christian , arguing always against the need to assist or promote the weak and meek . |
| 10 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 11 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 12 | But Mr Kinnock stressed in his speech that given the inevitable and unprecedented ‘ mess ’ which would be left behind by Mrs Thatcher , a Labour government would have to set — and unflinchingly stick to — four basic priorities . |
| 13 | Cells that have a genetic capacity for hardening are stimulated by the environment to produce isoenzymes — alternatives to those normally in production — that change the phospholipid and sterol content of the cell membranes . |
| 14 | One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia . |
| 15 | There is no evidence that addictive disease arises from traumas of early childhood or that psycho-therapeutic techniques that explore the emotional and behavioural patterns established in these early years have any effect whatever in the understanding or treatment of addictive disease . |
| 16 | From the Severn and moving inland towards Stroud there are constant reminders of the industries that changed the social and economic outlook of the area . |
| 17 | Behaviourist approaches to women 's agoraphobia , for instance , often concentrate on getting them to look after their family , and to work , rather than tackling the personal and social reasons for their anxiety . |
| 18 | The tribe occupied one of the countless tumble-down fortresses that line the craggy and tunnel strewn pass . |
| 19 | This is racism that answers the social and political turbulence of crisis and crisis management by the recovery of national greatness in the imagination . |
| 20 | His second will be to walk that famous soccer tightrope that tests the best and topples the rest . |
| 21 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 22 | To overcome this problem , Parkinson ( 1980 ) devised an estimator of the variance of price changes ( ΔX ) that uses the high and low prices during the time period from t -1 to t . |
| 23 | Although the several species that nest near the mouths of caves incorporate feathers into their constructions , the one that inhabits the deepest and totally lightless parts of caves constructs its nest from saliva and nothing else whatever . |
| 24 | These two approaches correspond to the main movements for organisational change that dominated the 1960s and 1970s : the pressure for improvements in administrative efficiency and the encouragement of corporate planning ( Stewart 1974:28 — 9 ) . |
| 25 | This seclusion period is closed by an elaborate ceremony that emphasizes the spatial and emotional removal of young men from the world of women . |
| 26 | Receptionists are expected to be charming , tactful , diplomatic and capable of dealing with members of the public as well as carrying out the innumerable tasks that ensure the smooth and efficient running of the office . |
| 27 | The entire medical research community should unite to make sure that the changes do not damage our ability to carry out world class clinical research that benefits the physical and economic health of the nation . |
| 28 | As such , the central government will allocate responsibilities to local government in accordance with criteria that meet the political and administrative objectives of the centre at any particular time . |
| 29 | Ardnamurchan Point , on a fine day , more than justifies the long and tortuous journey necessary to see its beautiful seascapes , the best of all . |
| 30 | More radical , because they insist that what is needed is a trade union education that recognises the political and economic causes that underlie workplace concerns , and that brings together and questions the common experiences of a range of working people . |