Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 These opportunities have risks and costs as well as gains .
2 You can buy sweetened whole chestnuts and purés as well as fresh chestnuts .
3 Diamonds , emeralds , rubies and sapphires as well as a mixture of semi-precious stones glinted and sparkled at her from all directions .
4 So Marion , back on the boards after the death of her boring solicitor husband some years ago , compressed her lips and maintained as well as possible the stately calm that so well suited her part as the Balkan Countess whose family jewels were stolen in this season 's Salt and Pepper offering ( Robson the butler was the master crook , in league with the Countess 's French maid ) .
5 2 Put the flour into a freezer bag , add all the vegetable chips and shake until lightly coated .
6 And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well .
7 This involves half-sisters and stepbrothers as well !
8 My case for a ‘ gender-aware ’ re-evaluation of the arts curriculum ( including teacher skills , expectations and modelling as well as the physical facilities and option offerings of curriculum areas ) rests on the preceding four criteria and the evidence presented in justification of each one .
9 Add the koftas and fry until lightly browned on all sides .
10 Friendship as well as marriage is a two-way affair and it is only when both parties have the opportunity to share problems , experiences and ideas and to give as well as take , that the relationship is a success .
11 It remains extraordinary , though , that with a brain of only 950,000 neurons — less than a thousandth of those in the human retina — bees can learn colours , textures and smells as well as motor skills , and when set appropriate tasks can show most of the features of conditioning , associative and non-associative learning and relatively long-lasting memory found by mammalian psychologists in organisms with many-fold larger brains .
12 Petion and a few of the hospital staff have rifles and handguns as well , and all the patients have been brought into the middle rooms for safety . ’
13 So it is with me , stuck with gloves and stick as soon as I step out of the front door .
14 Andy 's laughing too , but shouting threats and insults as well .
15 The tale of La Sylphide gave him an opportunity to exploit her expressive arms and face as well as her ability to dance sur les pointes .
16 ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can .
17 ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can .
18 At the same time , the ‘ Gnomebats ’ project out from the curtains and attack as well .
19 Part of an international organisation , with assets of £3.47 billion , the company also has interests in newspapers and publishing as well as travel .
20 Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren .
21 Because the vocalization is prolonged and because the mood of hostility rises and falls second by second , the strength of the sound increases and decreases as well .
22 The garden thus supports a dense stand of vegetation ; but it is not a wilderness , neither is it over-run with pests , and it provides a supply of flowers and produce as well as space for relaxation .
23 Captains had therefore to use their own resources to pay their men and bargain as best they could with the Exchequer ; but there is little evidence that delays in payment became a political issue .
24 From within the cover the ride is impressive ; closer to the ground , I can hear thumps and bangs as well as the runners hiss .
25 The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study .
26 Investment trusts can issue debentures and warrants as well as equity , and can retain capital gains from investments and retain other income if they so wish , whereas unit trusts can not .
27 Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion .
28 Not many buildings of this period survive unaltered ; the palace in Fig. 284 shows a Grand Canal façade of the time with cubiform capitals and stilted as well as semicircular arches , while the finest complete example is the Cathedral of SS .
29 It was , naturally , heavy with lectures and discussion groups but there was also a scenes of him shows and plays as well as street theatre , concerts and exhibitions .
30 The standard equipment includes anti-lock brakes , electric windows , mirrors and sunroof as well as a good sound system to help justify the price of just under £21,000 on the road .
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