Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | Other evidence suggesting that LDL is important is that LDL enters the arterial intima from plasma at rates directly related to its plasma concentration ( Niehaus et al , 1977 ; Nicoll et al , 1981 ) and accumulates particularly in atheromatous regions ( Nicoll et al , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 4 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 5 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 6 | According to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , the commission has done a good job in proposing new legislation which is workable and fits well with other parts of the law . |
| 7 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 8 | and goes right to that wall does n't it ? |
| 9 | Blithe Spirit opens at the Everyman Theatre tonight and goes on until 19th June . |
| 10 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 11 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 12 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 13 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 14 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 15 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 16 | Selahattin Simsek is currently being held in Bursa Special Type Prison and has up to eight more years of his sentence to serve . |
| 17 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 18 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 19 | She stops , too upset to carry on , and sneaks back into one of the ground-floor apartments to wash and put on her pyjamas for bed . |
| 20 | It also doubles violas or cellos with good effect and blends well with low or lowish clarinets . |
| 21 | The va n't Hoff equation is only approximate and holds only at low concentrations . |
| 22 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 23 | The lower Auchtertyre horizon is about 80 m thick over a strike length of 8 km and contains up to 1.6 per cent Zn and 0.1 per cent Cu over 3 m ( MRP 93 ; Fortey and Smith , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | The old rascal is still very much alive and kicking — he is 330 years old on 9 May this year — and looks forward to several more centuries of roguery yet ! |
| 25 | THIS LOGO 'S SEXIST RACIST AND LOOKS JUST LIKE TWO FINGERS ! |
| 26 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 27 | He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him . |
| 28 | Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful . |
| 29 | The use of investigations promotes active learning , the acquisition of transferable skills and articulates well with other educational provision . |
| 30 | In addition there is on each side a characteristic sclerite ( 6 ) the gonangulum which is derived from the anterior part of the coxite of the 9th abdominal segment and articulates primitively with this coxite , the 9th abdominal tergum and the gonapophysis of the 8th segment . |