Example sentences of "and [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I squeak my resistance and yank that particular limb away from the offending direction hoping that they wo n't do it again . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 36 | These observations provide the first direct evidence that the early stages of T-cell development depend on fibroblast products and suggest that this effect is unlikely to be mediated solely by soluble factors . |
| 37 | Will the Secretary of State lay aside diplomatic niceties for a moment and say that that hope has receded since July as a direct result of the intransigence of Mr. Denktash , who has made no move despite the fact that concessions have been made by the other side ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 43 | ‘ When we got our first serious analysis from the system in January 1992 , there was a minor panic at the amount of sick days reported , although it was not quite so bad when we analysed the figures further and found that one employee 's long-term sickness was affecting the averages . |
| 44 | We also tested the methylation pattern of expressing ( -300bp promoter deletion ) and non-expressing ( -55bp promoter deletion ) transgenes and found that both transgene were unmethylated to the same extent ( data not shown ) . |
| 45 | He looked at four fourteen patients , with well differentiated on the basis of tumours , and found that both number of tumours and size of tumours were significant in determining the likelihood of recurrence . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | We studied the effect of octreotide administered in a dose of 50 µg on the sphincter of Oddi using endoscopic manometry in seven patients and found that this hormone increase basal pressure and the frequency of phasic wave contractions appreciably ( submitted for publication ) . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | However , the issue was decided by the Civil Engineers , who conducted clearance tests at very short notice , and found that most station platforms would need the platform edging stones setting back . |
| 50 | Quick as a bleeding flash she was , the way she bunged herself head first into that little black job and stopped that poor bugger what was bleeding like a bloody stuck pig , afore any of your lot got here . |
| 51 | Mubarak appealed the same day for calm and promised that new accommodation would be provided for all homeless victims within six weeks . |
| 52 | Some argue for much greater administrative decentralization , to remove the ‘ Whitehall bottleneck ’ , and urge that central government gives more thought to the formulation of clearly defined policies so that local authorities can be safely left to get on with the job within a clear policy framework . |
| 53 | These data show that there has been a posterior transformation of the trigeminal territory to a facial/vestibuloacoustic identity , and illustrates that retinoic acid induces changes in Hox-B1 expression that lead to the duplication of the r4/5 patterns in r2/3 without changing the normal r4/5 domains . |
| 54 | Externalized graphic , plastic , dramatic , or electronic representations make up the ‘ media ’ and provide that cultural environment that is so inextricably intercalated with the biology of the performers and the physicality of the environment . |
| 55 | This consciousness leads only to social democratic forms of political organization , and accepts that political change has to be achieved through the mechanisms of representative politics . |
| 56 | The Werner Report of October 1970 mapped out a stage-by-stage plan to achieve economic and monetary union ( EMU ) by 1980 , although it concentrated more on monetary union and assumed that economic union would automatically follow . |
| 57 | No wonder that we cheer when we see older generations giving it just one more go , not because they expect to hear bells ringing or lights flashing , but because they want to reach out and feel that reassuring touch or see that reaffirming glance which means they have an ally in the world who uniquely cares that they thrive . |
| 58 | As described earlier , our model of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ states that the relationship between incidence and outcidence determines prevalence , and assumes that annual outcidence is 20 per cent at the highest . |
| 59 | The report , produced at Manila 's request , was fiercely critical of the land reform programme of Marcos , and warns that this time implementation must not be allowed to drag on . |
| 60 | They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party . |