Example sentences of "and [adj] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But and that takes away that initial reaction . |
| 2 | Essential to this is making the measurement and reporting of performance against plan meaningful — and that goes as much for the board as the managers . |
| 3 | Most commercial market research is concerned simply with measuring consumption patterns , and that requires far less accuracy than political research . |
| 4 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 5 | And that brings together all of these things here . |
| 6 | ‘ I only know one story about you and that seems very much to your credit . ’ |
| 7 | Complex natural ecosystems are replaced by unsustainable simple ones , with a resulting loss of biodiversity — and that applies as much in the de-natured agricultural prairies of Alberta and East Anglia as it does to the hamburger ranches of Brazil . |
| 8 | Experience shows that insufficient involvement can soon lead to frustration and dissatisfaction which can only damage the firm ; and that applies as much to assistant solicitors and salaried partners as to equity partners . |
| 9 | Trading was reported to be good , if not euphoric , with every gallery selling and some moving as many as twenty works , mostly in a FFr 12,000 ( £1,200 ; $2,000 ) -FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) price range . |
| 10 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 11 | These squads were armed only with automatic pistols as each man carried a 601b ( 27kg ) rucksack of explosives and some had as much as 901b ( 40kg ) loads . |
| 12 | If the creche is a big one , and some contain as many as twenty infants , then one pair of the adults is likely to be in attendance at virtually all times of the day . |
| 13 | No species alive today has many more than two hundred legs and some have as few as eight . |
| 14 | Some of the jobs on offer in the assignment process were not ‘ good ’ jobs , suited to graduates ' fields of study or expertise , and some involved very little real work , being ‘ employment ’ in name only . |
| 15 | Joe came home on leave and this brought even more comfort to his mother . |
| 16 | The only memory upgrade that you have performed is to add expanded memory and this has very little to do with the operating system you are using . |
| 17 | Comparison of three national surveys carried out between 1976 and 1985 reveals very little change in the percentage of older people reporting difficulties with a plethora of adl activities ( see Table 4.9 ) . |
| 18 | This sort of thing is out of your league ; you 're just too stubborn and embarrassed to admit as much to me , that 's all . ’ |
| 19 | This view argues that it is undemocratic and unethical to change deliberately another person 's behaviour . |
| 20 | Hence , an illusion that the children would sooner or later return home was sustained , mitigating the need to plan for another outcome which , in any case , was considered inferior and likely to do as much harm as good . |
| 21 | It costs about 20 to make a tonne of waste derived fuel pellets and these have about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 22 | The first studies of patients in intensive care units began with investigations of multiply injured patients in the Netherlands , and these showed significantly fewer patients colonised with potentially pathogenic micro-organisms , particularly of the upper respiratory tract . |
| 23 | The Futurists , however , undoubtedly had an influence on the terminology of French painting and literature , and the bewildering mass of ‘ isms ’ springing up in 1913 and 1914 reflects also some of the spiritual restlessness which Futurism did so much to engender . |
| 24 | I feel happier wrapped , and able to eat as many buttered tea cakes as I like . |
| 25 | It 's far from intuitive , and galling to waste as much time as it takes . |
| 26 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 27 | The food is freshly cooked using produce from the kitchen garden and local produce as much as possible . |