Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [det] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few of them can be done in isolation and all require some element of partnership . |
| 2 | The current financial services turnover and this has this has been published in the Financial Times and the Telegraph is somewhere in the region of between eight five and ninety percent . |
| 3 | You ‘ Il be very glad you did this if you turn up one day to find the river high and murky because if , for example , you know that one swim has a lovely clean gravel bottom and another has half a Morris 1000 and a blackberry bush in it then this may help you decide where to fish and where to stick your mate ! |
| 4 | There is a suggestion that the growth-controlling auxin gravitates to the bottom of the bough and this produces more wood on the compression face , but to me , this is only a partial answer . |
| 5 | The greater this interaction between chains the more favourable will be the energy parameter and this provides some indication of the type of chain which might be expected to crystallize from the melt , viz. |
| 6 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 7 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |
| 8 | Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it . |
| 9 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 10 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 11 | The Social Secretary thanked Mr and Mrs Preshous for a very informative presentation and all agreed that time had run out all too quickly . |
| 12 | Maybe being a Virgo is more than just your star sign and that explains all this maidenly modesty . ’ |
| 13 | The movement cost less than 10 per cent of the price quoted by the British firm and this included all import duties and delivery charges , and VAT . |
| 14 | He was a very private man and some mistook this for aloofness . |
| 15 | But at least these antics attracted attention ; ‘ then some said she was accursed ; some said God took open vengeance on her ; some said one thing and some said another ’ . |
| 16 | She counted every hundred paces , to give her something to cling on to and then , turning her head away from the gale , she shouted George 's name , cocking her head this way and that to catch any reply . |
| 17 | Results in the £1,000 Hathaway fours at the Morrison Centre showed that three games were won with the last bowl and another finished all square in a very competitive tournament . |
| 18 | Japan 's real GDP shrank 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year and few expect much of a recovery before the end of this year . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ In a dismal year the leasing performance was significantly better than other forms of finance and this indicates that leasing remains the most attractive form of medium-term finance for equipment . ’ |
| 20 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |