Example sentences of "and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foregoing review has been necessary to demonstrate what now seems almost unbelievable ; that physical geography for so long contrived to ignore the significance of human activity and thence the potential which associated studies afford . |
| 2 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 3 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 4 | And so the day we bought the piano was memorable for many reasons . |
| 5 | And so the other he 's there if you want is n't he ? |
| 6 | And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction . |
| 7 | At the shorter wavelength , the rings are lit up by the Sun 's radiation and shine brilliantly ; but methane in Saturn 's atmosphere absorbs at this wavelength and so the planet itself is virtually invisible . |
| 8 | Dexter remembered that cackle and so the journalist who owned it : John Barry , who had helped report Blanche 's last murder case for the Herald . |
| 9 | And so the Book you are in . |
| 10 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 11 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 12 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 13 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
| 14 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 15 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 16 | UEFA 's disciplinary committee will discuss Hateley 's dismissal in Geneva today and if the violent conduct charge is upheld he will be banned from Rangers ' match with CSKA Moscow on April 21 — and perhaps the final itself should the Scottish champions get there . |
| 17 | If the system has been written in a modular way ( i.e. the individual components of a system are intelligently partitioned , allowing each module to see all and only the input it requires ) then the modification is greatly simplified . |
| 18 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 19 | You know Steve and better the devil you know than the one you do n't — ’ |
| 20 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 21 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 22 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 23 | It was no wonder that the Vietnamese , he said , were willing to turn to anyone who offered them a helping hand ; and for the time being , for him and perhaps for most Vietnamese , it was China , and the kuomintang , not surprisingly , which exerted the greatest influence on the development of Vietnamese nationalism : and especially a Kuomintang which still included communists as well as nationalists . |
| 24 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |
| 25 | How far children take it , and especially the language they use and the sophistication with which they employ concepts , will obviously vary enormously , but none should be excluded because of a teacher 's prior decision that they are not capable . |
| 26 | The third stage included provisions for : ( i ) direct elections to the Flemish and Walloon regional assemblies ; ( ii ) reform of the national parliament and especially the Senate which effectively duplicated the work of the Chamber of Deputies without acting as counterweight to it ; and ( iii ) defining the foreign policy prerogatives of the regions of Brussels , Flanders and Wallonia . |
| 27 | Apple of my eye derives from the Bible and means ‘ child of the eye ’ , child being the eyeball and especially the pupil which is the organ of vision . |
| 28 | There are lots of things in this erm erm do notice that Locke is emphasising that by the social contract individuals establish a unitary body , a community and furthermore a community which has the capacity to act . |
| 29 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 30 | This they did , and they then determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene , and thus the protein it codes for . |