Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 2 | I said well he 's got a sa , brother that ca n't walk , he 's crippled and sits there all week and that , does a little job for Wilkinson and Kilpack and er quite annoyed ! |
| 3 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 4 | In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality . |
| 5 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's badly run down anyway — like most of us since the war — and has very little resistance . ’ |
| 7 | She 's such a sweet little girl and has so much energy . |
| 8 | I hope the health service 's attitude has changed because anyone suffering from anorexia feels isolated and needs as much support as they can get — from doctors and their family . |
| 9 | Tongue-and-groove pine boarding looks good ; it should be sealed with polyurethane to protect the wood and needs hardly any maintenance — just wiping over occasionally . |
| 10 | Lucker drops his camera and holds out another knife . |
| 11 | ‘ Smith is more mobile and searches out more openings . |
| 12 | Nick Gibbs reviews the exhibition and competitions , and wonders how such masterpieces are achieved on wood |
| 13 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 14 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 15 | The above explanation also allows a clearer view of the relation between know and the other verbs which belong to the conceptual field , and shows why such verbs are all followed by to + infinitive . |
| 16 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) with n=5 indicate that P was initially high ( 0.8 ) and shows very little change ( i ) , but v 1 almost doubles after the tetanus ( j ) . |
| 17 | Back off the volume and the sound cleans up really well and shows hardly any sign of thinning out . |
| 18 | Figure 1.1 represents what I see as the equivalent for teaching RE and shows how these qualities are related to the attitude of five-fold respect discussed above ( p. 2 ) . |
| 19 | Frances Stevens ( 1970 ) in reviewing the marking of examiners in A-level English literature , compares the gradings given to two particular scripts and reveals how much information has been lost in labelling the girl C and the boy D : |
| 20 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 21 | ‘ However , the tax difference is small and affects relatively few people . |
| 22 | He stands up carefully and reaches out both hands . |
| 23 | Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration . |
| 24 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 25 | The Crowland chronicler goes further and states bluntly that Bourgchier was compelled to play his part . |
| 26 | The Crowland chronicler goes further and states bluntly that Bourgchier was compelled to play his part . |
| 27 | The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 28 | Zoe goes for it and plucks up some courage while Leonard asserts himself and makes a decision . |
| 29 | It contains no pretentiousness , has scarcely dated , and throws out many lessons — not least Johnson 's writerly good manners : if he uses a Greek tag he gives the translation . |
| 30 | Whenever anyone makes something too long , she snips one edge of the knitting , then snips the other edge on the same row and pulls out that line of knitting . |