Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are both recommendable performances : the Monte-Carlo orchestra , in particular , is on top form , and plays this familiar music for all its worth , so that it comes up as fresh as it must have sounded in St. Petersburg a century ago . |
| 2 | He was beaten and he accepts it and thinks this sporting attitude will count in his favour next time . |
| 3 | IE Displays Ltd , of Rectory Road , Great Bromley , was set up last May and designs and supplies illuminated acrylic advertisement display cases . |
| 4 | This rebated , dry glazed pivot offers improved weather resistance , single handed operation ( so they 're easy to get to grips with ) , and guarantees improved thermal efficiency in commercial , industrial and residential buildings . |
| 5 | From the committed runner to the occasional jogger , there 's a Mizuno running shoe to suit all abilities that gives everybody the benefit of Mizuno Transpower — a remarkable energy conversion system that absorbs damaging shock and produces extra forward movement . |
| 6 | Sir Hector Laing is chairman of United Biscuits ( Holdings ) plc , a company capitalised at £1.4 bn that employs thirty thousand people and produces five billion food packets every year — the equivalent to one for every person on earth . |
| 7 | The well known ‘ Garnet ’ is arguably hardy and produces reddish mauve blooms and the pinks are found in two smaller clones , ‘ Evelyn ’ and ‘ Pink Endurance ’ . |
| 8 | In the absence of methanogenesis , large intestinal fermentation is inefficient and produces different organic end products unless an alternative pathway exists to dispose of reducing equivalents . |
| 9 | I imagine that Struan is operating , probably unconsciously , with a theory of art in which art is counted as higher when it is more complex , subtle and displays greater emotional depth . |
| 10 | It was worn by a veteran of the American War , 1812–14 , and displays several unrecorded features . |
| 11 | Now she rubs moisturizer into her facial skin as protection against the raw wintry air outside , coats her lips with lipsalve , and brushes some green eyeshadow on her eyelids , pondering shifts of point of view in Charles Dickens 's Hard Times ( 1854 ) . |
| 12 | True integration of text and graphical information within databases is an area of major development effort among computer manufacturers , and offers great potential benefits for the curation of museum collections . |
| 13 | Perhaps a little more expensive , but we 've opted for a powerhead run undergravel — which will ensure adequate throughput of water through the gravel , and offers many similar features to the internal power filter , in terms of flow and aeration . |
| 14 | The delightful restaurant overlooks the harbour and offers many Italian specialities . |
| 15 | In short , the pen-based interface is highly versatile , and offers many further capabilities besides that of handwritten input . |
| 16 | The featureless fell top is in the middle of the Lakeland fells and offers spectacular panoramic views . |
| 17 | This filling gives a high level of insulation and offers good internal stability . |
| 18 | The publication of Waiting times for first outpatient appointments in the NHS , the report of a workshop commissioned by the Department of Health , therefore provides a timely reminder of the issues and offers some worthwhile solutions . |
| 19 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 20 | Peter Thompson reviews what 's happening and offers some timely advice . |
| 21 | The first point to be made in response to this is that current Soviet initiatives are clearly designed to foster a positive attitude towards the USSR as a country which has a viable socio-economic system and offers valuable commercial opportunities , rather than trying to incite the masses to Soviet-style revolution . |
| 22 | Truss-rod adjustment lives under the traditionally-situated cover above the nut , and offers full dual-action flexibility . |
| 23 | Smith & Williamson ( 071–637 5377 ) also has in-house investment managers and offers full discretionary portfolio management mainly for the private client . |
| 24 | He has now sold his Duo and drives another unusual kit car , a Vincent Hurricane which is a 60 's style open sports car . |
| 25 | The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala . |
| 26 | Typically this occurs between mid-March and late May , and involves several thousand birds . |
| 27 | I can also reveal that he is forever scratching his head and his backside ( must be all that sand and dried salt ) , and builds some mean sand castles . |
| 28 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 29 | Also whilst Women 's Studies , particularly in Higher Education , appears to have achieved a certain respectability and is flourishing , Black Studies is on the decline and receives little public support from those concerned about racism . |
| 30 | Here , as elsewhere ( Bittner 1965 ) , we seem to have been misled by an essentialist definitional procedure which concentrates on the differences between phenomena and neglects those other matters which they have in common . |