Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days judges are keen that children should see and remain close to both parents after divorce . |
| 2 | But in the 1983 and 1987 elections the Conservatives averaged nearly 60 per cent and led Labour by 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent of the votes respectively in the two elections . |
| 3 | For Mr Desai , and many thousands of Indian yogis who rise at 4am and sit cross-legged for two hours , meditating on profound spiritual questions , a glass of melatonin-rich urine does seem to be the ideal thirst-quencher . |
| 4 | Put in £5,000 , and sit tight for eight to ten weeks . " |
| 5 | Bevin hoped , by mobilizing European , African and other imperial resources , to end British economic dependence on the United States , and " to re-establish a position of global power and influence equal to that of the Americans and Russians " . |
| 6 | The Deuteronomic standpoint was later canonized in the Torah and in the books of the prophets and became central in Jewish life . |
| 7 | Car phones lost popularity when portable handsets plummeted from will into four figures to under £300 and became available with in-car adapters . |
| 8 | It stretched for miles and became lost in blue haze and mirage lakes . |
| 9 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 10 | She worked with the regional adviser in religious and moral education and became involved in teacher' in-service training particularly concerning multicultural education . |
| 11 | The Bishop was in dispute and became involved in lengthy arguments regarding the finance of the whole see of Rochester . |
| 12 | Its two reactors are of the Chernobyl type and became operational in 1983 and 1986 respectively . |
| 13 | James — ‘ Deaf ’ Burke , or the ‘ Deaf 'Un ’ as he was generally known was born in Westminster , London on 8th December 1809 , and became orphaned in early childhood . |
| 14 | Simplistically , it would appear that this change could be accomplished merely by making family planning information , services and supplies available to all women of reproductive age and motivating them to use the services , confining childbearing to ages 20–34 , reducing the total number of pregnancies and lengthening inter-birth intervals , but much more is involved . |
| 15 | Mn +2 is the primary activator and produces yellow to red emission , dominating any low intensity blue peak . |
| 16 | The mind — if unable to express creativity or creative impulses — exhibits frustration and evokes self-disdain for negative self-images and loss of self-worth ; the emotions — if subject to suppression or repression of essential human responses relating to love , understanding and compassion — are suffocated ; the harbouring and nurturing of accumulated aggressions , rejections or guilts , destroys the human ability to be receptive to positive influences , and depression , grief , hopelessness and helplessness all evoke a desire for self-annihilation if sustained ; the spirit — if unable to establish any connection between its personal nature and those higher elements which nourish it — eventually starves . |
| 17 | Boundless , and studded thick with many a sail . |
| 18 | Goods and services were classified in three groups : prices for electricity , gas , home heating fuels and rents would be raised on Jan. 1 , 1991 , and remain fixed for one year ; prices of 99 basic products , including bread , milk , meat and children 's clothes , would be adjusted every three months , with equivalent wage adjustments ; and prices of all other goods would be freed from all controls . |
| 19 | Material presented to people during sleep is not remembered unless they are woken up by it , and remain awake for some time . |
| 20 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
| 21 | ‘ It need hardly be stressed how undesirable a situation is , whereby a prisoner can hang himself and remain suspended for several hours within a cell , unbeknown to either his cellmate or the supervising authority , ’ said the sheriff . |
| 22 | But there was speculation that the sixteen-foot olos of their Hawaiian predecessors had been capable of scaling the monstrous waves , fifty feet and more , that boil and boom off Kaena Point and remain untested in modern times . |
| 23 | A moment later the frenzied cadet pitched forward and skidded prostrate for many metres , his strengthened fingernails scratching sparks from the plates of the deck before he came to rest . |
| 24 | She nurses a vodka and orange and sits still with long stockinged legs turned inwardly but not awkwardly . |
| 25 | Elinor Pringle — Flora 's neighbour — grass-widowed by her husband 's political work and his play-writing , fills up her time at the cinema or in provincial towns , and sits alone in melancholy pubs . |
| 26 | It produces a mystique which obstructs total professionalism and separates British from American attitudes . |
| 27 | 3 Bring to the boil and simmer uncovered for 30 min , or until thick . |
| 28 | Put all the ingredients into a saucepan and simmer uncovered for 20-25 minutes , or until thick . |
| 29 | Education was encouraged by the General Education Act of 1870 ; and made compulsory in 1876 up to age 10 and to age 14 according to the Act of 1880 . |
| 30 | ‘ And though some people may damn me irrevocably and for ever , in the nature of things my profession and my work will open new relations to me , that much fresher for not having been frozen , hardened , and made sterile by old prejudices . ’ |