Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may overcome the illness altogether but , even if this is not the case , he will certainly be able to make the most of his life and develop that special peace of mind which comes to those who are aware that they are doing all that they can to control the direction of their evolvement . |
| 2 | Surely he had n't somehow read her mind and shared that foolish thought that stress and tiredness had put into her head ? |
| 3 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 4 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 5 | In his opening address on Sept. 16 , the IAEA 's Director-General Hans Blix had called for more stringent measures to help detect illicit nuclear weapons programmes and recommended that national intelligence agencies share information with the IAEA on possible violations of nuclear non-proliferation accords . |
| 6 | But this harsh action was condemned by Reagan who called for punitive measures against the Eastern bloc , threatened to cut off all talks with Moscow and asked that Western aid be ended for an oil-gas pipeline which was being constructed from Soviet Siberia into Europe . |
| 7 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 8 | The duty of the auditor is to see that the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the legal requirements and to see that proper accounting practices have been observed in the compilation of the accounts . |
| 9 | The aim of the present study was therefore to assess splenic function in chronic alcoholics , and to see whether functional hyposplenism might be a contributory factor in their predisposition to infection . |
| 10 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 11 | Perhaps you would like to learn a new skill , rekindle an interest in a former hobby — or simply try and make that new girl at the office feel more at ease . |
| 12 | When you invade the penalty area and make that all-important shot you 'll wonder why you bothered — the goalkeepers are so irritatingly agile it 's almost impossible for either team to score ! |
| 13 | A later inquiry blamed BR for ‘ unacceptable and dangerous ’ work practices , and revealed that faulty wiring in trackside signalling equipment had led to the crash . |
| 14 | He looked at her and made that queer sound in his throat . |
| 15 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 16 | Here , Gavrilov captures the twists and turns and flighty nature of this music perfectly , and the accelerando link from the central andantino section into the final pages is impeccably judged . |
| 17 | Crawling around the balcony en route to the spiral staircase , the sounds of banging and sawing and general hullabaloo from below had become too curious-making to resist . |
| 18 | Like many others in the industry , Miles points to the number of fast food outlets opening every day as an indication of the continuing popularity of deep-fried foods and adds that unhealthy frying is caused principally by poor frying practices . |
| 19 | Why did she go out and buy that obvious representation of a landscape she wanted to escape , the figures moving noiselessly under the shadow of the mill ? |
| 20 | It symbolized the potential power and solidarity of the unions and demonstrated that collective action on a large scale could close workplaces . |
| 21 | Alfred Marshall , the leading economist of the last decades of the nineteenth century , provided new tools for analysing the economy and demonstrated that involuntary unemployment could occur . |
| 22 | I squeak my resistance and yank that particular limb away from the offending direction hoping that they wo n't do it again . |
| 23 | Data from the New Zealand cot death study show that the prevalence of the prone sleeping position decreased before the campaign in New Zealand and suggest that other publicity , such as that generated by fundraising campaigns , may have had an influence . |
| 24 | The conclusions of a more comprehensive ( albeit idealized ) three-dimensional modelling study provide a different picture and suggest that massive ozone destruction as seen over Antarctica is unlikely to occur over the Arctic with current conditions . |
| 25 | The only concession he made in Zaïs was to let Malherbe include in the preface the following statement : ‘ In the course of the work , M. Vincent d'Indy has thought it necessary to add certain viola parts , which are sometimes lacking in the original score , and to modify or complète wind parts that are too sketchily indicated ’ ( vol.16 , p.lviii ) . |
| 26 | She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour . |
| 27 | I sped again on the bus to the races and found that overnight Assiniboia Downs had sprouted all the ballyhoo of Woodbine , T-shirt stalls , banners and besashed bosoms Support Canadian Racing included . |
| 28 | Before Christmas I visited W H Smith and found that Spare Rib Magazine had been put in ‘ General Interest ’ , which includes all the soft pornography magazines . |
| 29 | They measured night-time noise , from 22.30 to 06.36 , in the area next to the nurses ' station in three different types of wards and found that night-time noise over 8 hours in the psychiatric ward was 49 dB(A) ; in the general medical ward was 68 dB(A) ; and in the acute admitting general ward was 66 dB(A) — the general wards being well above the Bentley et al ‘ annoying ’ level . |
| 30 | David Foulkes and Allan Rechtschaffen , showed either an amusing film or a violent TV western to adult subjects before bedtime , and found that direct incorporation of the content of either film was very rare indeed , although the violent film reliably induced more vivid , emotional dreams . |