Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A band of volunteer drivers provides transport to and from home , volunteers and the Mothers provide the refreshments and everyone enjoys a trip out each year . |
| 2 | But by August 1958 both sides realized that world opinion was turning against them , partly as a result of the scientists ' warnings , partly out of revulsion and fear , partly because nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue — and nothing makes a politician have second thoughts faster than the awareness that he might be losing votes . |
| 3 | And no-one likes a spot of moist-eyed nostalgia as much as Moz ! |
| 4 | The wide main street , which the Berner Gate bounds and which forms a market place , has sixteenth-century arcaded sidewalks and houses , with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century facades . |
| 5 | By contrast to weaning , which represents the loss of a love-object ( the breast ) and which produces a characteristic culturally valued response ( mastery of the ability to postpone oral gratification in the interests of agriculture ) , toilet-training represents a more-or-less voluntary submission to an educative influence and a partial redirection against the self of the sadistic drive which is associated with the anal function . |
| 6 | In every contract where expert determination is to be used , there will be a clause which refers questions arising under the contract to an expert and which contains a number of ancillary provisions . |
| 7 | The other main type of short story is the poetic kind , which Katherine Mansfield wrote to perfection , and which leaves a mood in the mind . |
| 8 | Mathcad is described as an easy-to-use ‘ handy scratch pad for quick number crunching ’ , which is positioned as an alternative to popular spreadsheets and which boasts a user base already nearing that of Borland 's Quattro Pro and Excel in the US . |
| 9 | The theoretical analysis is conducted using a short run stochastic Mundell-Fleming model of a small open economy that produces tradable and non-tradable goods , and which faces a number of transitory domestic and foreign , demand side and supply side disturbances . |
| 10 | The empirical and non-tradable goods , and which faces a number of transitory domestic and foreign , demand side and supply side disturbances . |
| 11 | The second method is use a Ceiling Maestro , which is screwed to a joist or a piece of timber between the joists , and which has a hook for a chain and a screwed hole for a rod . |
| 12 | It applies to the symbolic language of dream life , which seems to be almost universal among Homo sapiens and which has a life of its own . |
| 13 | There were exceptions , again , like Carousel , which is being revived at the National Theatre later this year , and which has a plot bizarre by Verdi 's standards . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending congratulations to a Yorkshire manufacturing company , Spring Ram plc , which at the end of the month will open two new factories in my constituency , creating 400 new jobs , which is at present building two new factories in Barnsley which will create 400 new jobs , and which has a plan to create 1,100 new jobs in Bradford over the next four years ? |
| 15 | The other large force in bookmaking is the Tote , a bizarre organisation run by Lord Wyatt and which enjoys a monopoly of pool betting on racing . |
| 16 | Legislative power resides in a 33-member legislature ( the Nitijela ) , which is elected for four years and which chooses a President from among its members . |
| 17 | Here we are each year we have a huge celebration of the devil and nobody says a thing . |
| 18 | The master was lost in a fire , no one can put their hands on a pressing , Jubilee does not even have a test copy , and nobody has a tape of it . |
| 19 | Sir John Moores , a great Evertonian , is now well into his 90s and nobody has a crystal ball to tell whether the heir , or heirs , will have the same enthusiasm for the club . |
| 20 | A children 's rubber balloon is a positive stressed skin structure of stable and lightweight volume form , provided it is maintained at constant relative pressure ratio and nobody sticks a pin in it . |
| 21 | I am able to escape the misery of golf in the south of England once in a while and go back to Scotland where sanity reigns and nobody condemns a high-handicapper ! |
| 22 | Money spins the wheel from where the Bonanzas sit , and nobody lifts a finger to do anything without figuring the percentage angle . |
| 23 | ‘ No hurry to move ; as long as rent 's paid , and you finds a place in time , that suits me . ’ |
| 24 | He was a Fellow of New College from 1930 to 1937 , when the Warden was H. A. L. Fisher who had been President of the Board of Education under Lloyd George during and after the First World War ( and who deserves a book to himself ) . |
| 25 | Executive power is held by a President who is elected for a six-year term and who appoints a Cabinet including the Governor of the Federal District . |
| 26 | The difference yields a political meaning , in other words , and it would also appear to relate to the old theory of the difference between an author who tells and an author who shows , and who employs a medley of voices in order to do so . |
| 27 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 28 | ‘ And who has a grudge the size of Mount Everest against you ? ’ |
| 29 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 30 | The unwritten and unwritten laws and conventions about who represents us as women in our social , governmental and legal structures , and who has a hand in shaping those structures , amount to a set of understandings about where women 's bodies can actually be , how and where we become visible , and what the attitudes towards that visibility will be . |