Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure moved forward and one white hand came up , clawing back both hood and wimple as Dame Agatha shook her lustrous blonde hair free . |
| 2 | A more modest first step would be to scrap A levels and insist that university entrance should require five or six AS levels — a conventional exam with a smaller syllabus than A levels — topped up with a specialist paper in one chosen subject . |
| 3 | However , Mr Readman said he would be happy to attend a meeting and recommended that Mr Kirwan should be given another award . |
| 4 | As a result Truman went before Congress on 12 March and asked that US money be provided for these two states . |
| 5 | I nodded to the security man and asked if Mr Storey was inside . |
| 6 | Sunday Life contacted the Northern Ireland Office and asked if Sir John he would comment on his personal financial losses . |
| 7 | He distrusts Szilard , and insists that Robert Oppenheimer ( David Strathaim ) leads the scientists , although he suspects his Leftist views . |
| 8 | At a press conference on March 20 Botha described South Africa 's " friendship " with Taiwan as " precious " , and affirmed that South Africa was " not interested " in developing formal relations with China . |
| 9 | While circling the field , he noted the grass facility was inundated with water and realized that landing Spitfires under the existing conditions would be a hazardous undertaking . |
| 10 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 11 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 12 | Actress June Brown , 65 , had been rumoured to be unhappy with some storylines and upset when market stall holder Pete Beale played by Peter Dean was axed . |
| 13 | After coffee he drew me aside , quietly admitted I was right , and agreed that Roald Dahl must withdraw . |
| 14 | I mean years ago I can remember coming into town and seeing that furniture shop filled with people walking around , every time I go past it now it is empty |
| 15 | Margaret Brasnett in her Story of the Citizens advice Bureaux in 1964 talks of the ‘ need for people who are good at keeping papers in order and seeing that information material is filed and kept up-to-date ’ . |
| 16 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 17 | Maybe I can live at the house and hide if Mr Jackson comes round . |
| 18 | THE president of Liss WI , Heather Gold , welcomed members to the recent meeting and announced that Jean Pay has volunteered to serve on the committee . |
| 19 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 20 | He was deeply concerned about the need to improve social conditions ; but he concluded that the economy had the capacity for recovery and expansion to create more and better jobs and argued that government intervention was more likely to harm than to assist that process . |
| 21 | Conceding that the widespread use of abortion under the existing legislation was a " social catastrophe " , the Democratic Union nevertheless regarded the draft legislation as draconian , and argued that abortion legislation should be reviewed in the context of overhauling social policy and of encouraging greater personal responsibility . |
| 22 | The former Irish Times correspondent said Ulster lagged in ‘ the EC second division ’ and argued that Northern Ireland needed its own ‘ sovereign negotiators ’ and accused unionists of not doing enough to pursue that goal . |
| 23 | He proposed a slightly more ‘ progressive ’ political model , and argued that Hong Kong people should unite in order to influence their own affairs . |
| 24 | Clare Frankl , also an architect , disagrees with this last point and doubts whether volume building can be reformed by example . |
| 25 | Or would the West cry foul , and declare that Mr Gorbachev can not , after all , be trusted to keep his word that the Brezhnev doctrine is dead , and that he will not interfere in the Warsaw Pact countries ? |
| 26 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 27 | The data collected covers issues such as brand name awareness , future expenditures , purchasing considerations , satisfaction , software usage , levels of systems failures and porting and migration plans . |
| 28 | Kris Kristofferson walks by , as silvery and twinkling as Captain Bird 's Eye . |
| 29 | The first , which can conveniently be called the traditional theory , is known as the ‘ price pressure hypothesis ’ , and holds that rights issues will cause a temporary depression in the price as the issue has increased the supply of shares . |
| 30 | These authors studied the effects of high insulin concentrations on prostacyclin production by rat aortic rings in vitro and demonstrated that prostacyclin production was significantly reduced in the presence of insulin at concentrations of 2500 , 500 and 250 μU/ml ( Lasche & Larson , 1982 ) . |