Example sentences of "and [adj] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 2 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 3 | I think we have to go back to what is the fundamental purpose of the York new settlement and that is to meet some of the development plan requirements of the Greater York area . |
| 4 | On the M four between junctions fifteen and sixteen , the outside and centre lanes are closed westbound , that 's between Swindon east and Swindon west , and on the A four two three , that 's near Hopcroft 's Holt and Steeple Aston , there 's resurfacing work there and that 's causing some delays . |
| 5 | And on the A four two three near to Hopcroft 's Holt and Steeple Aston , there 's resurfacing work there and that 's causing some delays . |
| 6 | And that 's happening more and more . |
| 7 | Have you ever considered to stop to think , well it it might be your son , your daughter , who 's just passed their test , and that 's doing this in er and just does n't know any better . |
| 8 | And that was wallpapering that was ! |
| 9 | And if you if you compare those diagonal markings with the sorts of markings on on er some of these other stones , these these are a bit diagonal but if you look carefully they go there 're some going in that direction and some are going that direction . |
| 10 | The muscles that connect the two bones are clearly under a colossal amount of tension and this is pulling these two bones together . |
| 11 | It will be involved from the outset , either because the management approached it ; or — and this is occurring more frequently — it may itself have approached the parent company and suggested the possibility of a management buy-out of the subsidiary . |
| 12 | From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 , England had been the dominant financial and commercial power in Europe and , on that basis , in the global economy ; the structural changes in the 1830s and 1840s were to consolidate that hegemony . |
| 13 | With a few exceptions , they said , most hornbills in captivity are not breeding , and many are given little chance to , living as they do without a mate or a nestbox . |
| 14 | The General 's chief preoccupation between 1963 and 1967 was to transform these relations and to transform the bipolar international system that regulated them . |