Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging such a fast-paced event requires great skill , and it is necessary to have highly qualified referees and judges to evaluate each technique and award scoring points . |
| 2 | The London-based committee was in contact with ministers , tried hard to persuade the island legislatures to initiate measures of amelioration to make the West Indian position more tenable in British eyes and managed to raise some petitions on slavery 's behalf , though few compared with the abolitionist flood . |
| 3 | Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club . |
| 4 | Tata Consultancy Services , the Indian company , says it has done a lot of work for Unix System Labs on Unix device drivers and hopes to get more work now that it has bought into the firm ( UX No 378 ) . |
| 5 | Either finance local services from central funds and cease to pretend that local autonomy exists , or increase the ability of local authorities to raise their own income . |
| 6 | All parties jump free of their cars and start blaming each other . |
| 7 | Gladys Hill writes ( aged nearly 96 ) that she enjoys reading a wide range of subjects and appreciates having some of the books from her days at Oxford . |
| 8 | Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them . |
| 9 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 10 | Mr Rawson remembered the drinking and the fighting , but also the big chromium-plated gypsy caravans with their displays of Crown Derby china and their owners sitting on the steps , ‘ as if they were showing off their homes and vying to outdo each other ’ . |
| 11 | There are distinctive styles and finishes to suit all types of houses and all budgets — prices range from £5,000–£50,000 . |
| 12 | In return for the support of the nominally social democratic National Progressive Revolutionary Party ( Panpra ) , which commanded a key block of votes in the Chamber , Bazin gave the party two Cabinet posts and agreed to restore all locally elected officials to office , including Evans Paul , an outspoken critic of the military and the FNCD mayor of Port-au Prince . |
| 13 | Mr Dawson also criticised the lack of directions and signposting to help those who wanted to visit the new sites . |
| 14 | It also has trade and co-operation agreements with several Middle Eastern countries and wants to have more . |
| 15 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |
| 16 | ‘ I just wish the Cabinet would clear its lines and start producing some kind of simple understandable message , ’ he said . |
| 17 | This reminded him that it was nearly time for church , so he heaved himself to his feet and went to make some more coffee , this time for Mrs Frizzell as well . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) Identify links with other areas of the curriculum and cross-curricular elements and seek to negotiate these links as and when appropriate . |
| 19 | He set his closest co-operator , Olavide , to reform the Madrid Hospital for poor invalids and attempted to clear all beggars out of Madrid . |
| 20 | Carnelian produced null-sense hoods and proceeded to fit these over Grimm 's head , and Moma Parsheen 's . |
| 21 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 23 | Local authorities would be well advised in future to preface all their decisions with the words : ‘ Having had regard to all relevant matters and having disregarded all irrelevant matters , and having considered the interests of all those likely to be affected , resolved that' etc . |
| 24 | Announcing their victory the Dwarfs retreat to the mountains and refuse to fight any more . |
| 25 | On Monday , a number of our members took the day off work to help us set up our bar and begin to take deliveries and start tapping some of the beer . |
| 26 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 27 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 28 | ‘ Is n't it time you stopped thinking about old debts and started winning some new contracts ? |
| 29 | Many bilingual students lack appropriate study skills and appear to take little responsibility for their own learning . |
| 30 | It was very much a day for getting back to basics and also for sharing knowledge , skills and experience to help each other . |