Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern is not uniform , though , with Dumfries and Galloway reporting a 50 per cent fall . |
| 2 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 3 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 4 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 5 | But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth . |
| 6 | THE ACTORS march on to the stage of the New Victoria in Newcastle-under-Lyme as an Italian town band , with Chorus in a red hat and sash beating the bass drum . |
| 7 | Despite the warnings of Callaghan and Healey , the TUC at its conference in September 1977 voted for a return to ‘ unfettered collective bargaining ’ , with Jones and Scanlon taking the adverse view . |
| 8 | It was obvious that the latter had brought no great changes in the problems of poverty and inequality facing the working class in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 10 | Here there was not the slightest evidence of ‘ religion and Communism making an excellent household together ’ , as Izvestiia now reported . |
| 11 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 12 | With Gimbert and Moscato making a disciplined if muted Championship debut , CHRIS THAU sought their side of the story . |
| 13 | The folds meet and fuse forming a broad tube , the neural tube , that will be the brain , with a narrower tube , to be the spinal cord , behind it . |
| 14 | I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : . |
| 15 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 16 | Expression will be monitored at the levels of transcription , mRNA and protein using a wide variety of molecular and cellular biological approaches . |
| 17 | If the mother notices that he does not like certain songs she at once introduces others with different phrases and melody embodying the same teaching . |
| 18 | After an unhappy childhood ( his parents suffered a very public divorce in 1912 ) Paul Mellon read various subjects at Yale followed by a happy year at Cambridge , England , where he discovered fox-hunting and horse racing a lifelong passion . |
| 19 | All the salient points of Upton Sinclair 's story were dealt with in the film : the struggle of immigrant families , the careless methods in the food factories , the strike and riot following a 20 per cent wage reduction , and above all the main themes of the distinction between employer and employed and the ‘ wide and bridgeless chasm ’ between rich and poor . |
| 20 | The policy process is dynamic , with inputs , conversion , outputs and feedback forming a continuous chain . |
| 21 | The patient might manage to cut up his own food with a combined knife and fork , or he may even learn to cut his food with one hand , alternating cutting and eating using a normal knife and fork . |
| 22 | The company partly blames the recession , but says its ability to stay competitive has been limited , ‘ due to the increased costs and uncertainty surrounding the major raw material , electricity , over the last two years . ’ |
| 23 | Example 2:5 Declaration as to party structures It is hereby agreed that : ( 1 ) one half in thickness of every internal wall floor and ceiling separating the demised property from any adjoining property is included in this demise ( 2 ) each such structure is a party structure ( 3 ) the tenant shall maintain each of them as such and shall be liable to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing or maintaining any such structure which shall have been incurred by any adjoining occupier or tenant or by the landlord such proportion to be determined ( in default of agreement ) by an arbitrator appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| 24 | Also exhibited is an enamelled gold suite , a massive bracelet ( below ) , ring and stick-pin bearing the crowned L , cipher of Leopold I , who became King of the Belgians in 1831 . |
| 25 | Listening to her and Ferdinando discussing the latest onslaught — Piedmontese troops were said to be sweeping south throughout the summer — Wilson could hardly believe the enthusiasm displayed . |
| 26 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 27 | — It was hard going at first , but after a while her hands began to flow over the keys in an easier , more assured style , and Laura found that she was able to relax , the soft chords and harmony having a soothing effect on her lacerated emotions . |
| 28 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 29 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 30 | Financial orders on divorce negotiation and adjudication following the 1984 Act |