Example sentences of "and [vb base] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 2 | The Belgian Government argued in that connection that the limits of articles 52 and 59 were plain : they dealt only with the freedom of any Community national to establish himself in another member state and provide services there while retaining his own nationality . |
| 3 | They keep the television at the front of the bed , and receive friends there when they call for tea . |
| 4 | There were also recognized ‘ midwives ’ who would attend confinements and run matters efficiently until the doctor arrived — and quite often when he did n't ( or could n't , because of distance or foul weather ) |
| 5 | She describes how women organized their time creating routines to give order to their days and set goals so as to be able to feel that they had achieved something with their labour . |
| 6 | After adopting amendments to the congress agenda and hearing the report by outgoing party first secretary Mieczyslaw Rakowski , delegates on Jan. 27 decided to suspend the PUWP congress and resume meetings forthwith as the founding congress of a new and as yet unnamed party of the left . |
| 7 | The starting point for feminist analyses of health care is the assumption that the practices and institutions of modern medicine control and disempower women both as consumers and producers of health care , and are unresponsive to their needs . |
| 8 | A pair of pliers : Pliers are a real jack-of-all-trades tool — they 'll grip all sorts of things you may be trying to undo or tighten up , bend things like stiff wire or metal sheet , and crimp wires together if you 're doing any electrical work . |
| 9 | The social and cultural conditions under which Marryat and his successors have written , even up to the present , have led them to explore individual personality mainly in terms of officers and warrant officers rather than members of the lower deck . |
| 10 | For the most part , a balance between these potentially conflicting aims is achieved through cooperation between the police and march organisers rather than through the use of the law . |
| 11 | Whereas a white guy will be starchy and throw punches only when he 's sure he 'll land , a black guy will stay loose and throw six or seven jabs in the hope that one or two will land . |
| 12 | The other person will often be very different from you and see things differently because of their experiences . |
| 13 | Family size in class I and II is concentrated on two- and three-child families more than in any other class . |