Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One old , old man , drunk and limp as old laundry but standing , yells at another old man who is sleeping with his head on the table . |
| 2 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 3 | The effects of technical advancement and change in industrial structure on material handling requirements of firms in South Wales |
| 4 | Self reported smoking behaviour ( backed by saliva sample ) and change in relevant health knowledge , beliefs , and values . |
| 5 | The general social action approach thus emphasises fluidity and change in social interaction ; it has a conception of the individual that emphasises people 's creativity and capacity for innovation . |
| 6 | The Maud Report considered there was urgent need for reform and change within local government . |
| 7 | The arrow , expressed as a wedge form , can minimise turbulence and drag in supersonic flight and in automobiles travelling beyond about 75 mph ( 120 km per hour ) . |
| 8 | Members of a trade regularly brought together in workplace or community could acknowledge regular leaders and develop and insist on customary work practices without embedding any of this in formal regulations and procedures . |
| 9 | In an effort to understand more fully the biological processing of these adducts , proteins that specifically recognize and bind to platinated DNA have been studied ( 16-21 ) . |
| 10 | They are therefore distortions of the Schwarzschild black hole solution in the interaction region , and correspond to interior Weyl solutions for static axisymmetric space-times . |
| 11 | India boasts a host of courses , from the high Himalayan foothills at Shimla and Shillong to serene city greens overlooked by historic monuments at Delhi . |
| 12 | So the myths of ministerial accountability , bureaucratic neutrality and administrative anonymity have been preserved even though Parliament has proved incapable of controlling an administrative apparatus whose discretion and influence on public policy has been growing steadily : |
| 13 | Given Duchamp 's long residence in America , and his contacts with and influence on American art , I can see why he might be included , although most of the time he was a presence on the scene here he was n't working publicly . |
| 14 | The third section of Demant 's 1936 Christian Polity ( Faber & Faber ) is given over to anthropological essays , such as ‘ Idols : Their Place and Influence in Religious History ’ where again we meet the names of Elliot Smith , Tylor , Ellis , Frazer , McDougall , Robertson Smith , and others . |
| 15 | a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase . |
| 16 | Afro-Caribbeans may be reviled as ‘ niggers ’ , but their musical forms and stylistic innovations exercise considerable fascination , attraction and influence in popular culture ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | A further danger is that adaptation may mix different individual styles and make for poor reading . |
| 18 | Contributions from Squadron members are related in the order that they joined the unit and make for fascinating reading , especially as raids and operations inter-weave with different opinions coming to the fore — Alan has added occasional notes only by way of factual back-up , ensuring the originality of the contributor 's writing . |
| 19 | Get into the trees and make for high ground . |
| 20 | Tests show less wrinkling and repair to sun-damaged skin . |
| 21 | There is no shot in them , they are undamaged and remain in first-rate condition . |
| 22 | The nearer a satellite is to its sun , the faster it has to travel if it is to counter the sun 's gravity and remain in stable orbit . |
| 23 | Blanch in boiling water quickly and refresh in cold water , drain . |
| 24 | Reduce the heat , cover and bring to high pressure . |
| 25 | The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation , diseases of the bowel , gout , and bladder stones . |
| 26 | The world 's airlines use a variety of methods to account for their fleets , depreciate aircraft and account for foreign exchange gains and losses , and differ widely on their levels of disclosure in income statements for depreciation and finance costs . |
| 27 | That said , if it is configured to use Expanded memory and load into High Memory , it interferes with much less conventional memory . |
| 28 | As they expand and gain in political significance , they may act to constrain the actions of their own host governments : reciprocity will be needed . |
| 29 | This occurs when a firm continually has to ‘ look over its shoulder ’ and concentrate on short-term performance targets in order to try and maintain its share price , rather than planning for the future . |
| 30 | AT this stage , we move from a comparative approach , taking account of civil , tribunal and criminal procedure , and concentrate on civil procedure . |