Example sentences of "and [vb -s] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , the second point really was that erm as far as Highways is concerned and I mean we , as you 've explained earlier on , as Councillor explained , it 's gon na be very very tight I think , erm in years to come in terms of major highways and starts of major highways . |
| 2 | The Alliance and its supporters busied themselves in rates and exposes of socialist malpractice . |
| 3 | While it would be churlish to pass over the considerable tree planting effort already wrought in the central belt by the trust , the results of a three-year research project undertaken at the University of Edinburgh reveal little evidence that the needs and wants of local people have provided the vehicle for environmental change . |
| 4 | A post-Budget survey shows business confidence is back to its highest level since the fourth quarter of 1989 , but another , based on the views of London-based accountants , said there was no positive signs of an upturn and warns of more redundancies in the profession . |
| 5 | This is the position that Djilas eventually arrives at , arguing that because ‘ property ’ meant the use , enjoyment and disposition of material goods , and the communist political bureaucracy uses , enjoys and disposes of collectivized property through the organizational medium of state administrative institutions , it obtains its power and privileges from the collective ownership of state property and therefore constitutes a new class ( Djilas 1957 ) . |
| 6 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 7 | Mr O.G.S. Crawford believes the Jurassic Way to be of Iron Age date in view of its strong associations with hill-forts and finds of this period , though he does not dismiss the possibility of its being older . |
| 8 | The new series , called the GG11 series , will replace the Fury series , which Fujitsu has been fabricating under licence from Vitesse Semiconductor Corp , Camarillo , California and consists of six types , with between 10,000 gates and 25,000 gates . |
| 9 | A continental breakfast , with cheeses and meats , is served and dinner is four courses and consists of good home cooking . |
| 10 | The deck also has a Divinycell core and consists of two mouldings , the cockpit well being a separate module . |
| 11 | It was constructed by Agrippa in 18–19 B.C. and consists of two tiers of arches each about 65 feet high and an upper tier of smaller arches 28 feet high . |
| 12 | This is a common type of lump , especially in woman under 30 , and consists of swollen tissue loosely attached within the breast . |
| 13 | It is a general treatment programme for stressed hair and consists of Revitalising Shampoo ( £2.75/200ml ) , Revitalising Extract ( £5.95/15ml phials ) and Repair Fluid ( £4.95/30ml ) . |
| 14 | It is claimed to incorporate all the Foundation technologies specified by the Open Software Foundation 's architecture and consists of four components : Digital DCE Runtime Service , Digital DCE Cell Directory Server , Digital DCE Security Server and the Digital DCE Applications Developers ' Kit . |
| 15 | It reportedly incorporates all the foundation technologies specified by the Open Software Foundation 's architecture and consists of four components : Digital DCE Runtime Service , Digital DCE Cell Directory Server , Digital DCE Security Server and the Digital DCE Applications Developers ' Kit . |
| 16 | The list , which appears below , is prepared by Whitaker 's Bibliographic Services , and consists of new titles and new editions , presented in 135 categories alphabetically under author . |
| 17 | The cDNA insert is 692 nucleotides long and consists of 68 nucleotides of 5' noncoding sequence , an open reading frame comprising 495 nucleotides , and 129 residues of the 3' untranslated region . |
| 18 | This book is well written and consists of 11 chapters written by nine authors , all experts in their own subject . |
| 19 | The third winter series of meetings spans the period September 1990 to April 1991 and consists of eight seminars . |
| 20 | The Guiseley installation is custom-built and consists of one eight-pan and one nine-pan range . |
| 21 | Figure 4 shows the PAS analysis for MCC and consists of three lines : the PAS-score for the company itself , the solvency threshold where Z=0 ( the percentage of companies with negative Z-Scores ) and the publishing industry average . |
| 22 | As with any candidate his age , the trouble originates in his early adult life and consists of three things : the draft , dope and sex — the all-absorbing issues of the Sixties , when Clinton spent two years at University College , Oxford . |
| 23 | The mill is of brick construction and consists of three floors and a basement . |
| 24 | Reasoning is domain independent and consists of generalised problem solving strategies . |
| 25 | The traditional estate is run on modern lines and consists of 11,000 acres with farming , forestry , game-keeping , conservation and leisure activities . |
| 26 | The inner ring , Caloris Montes , is about 1300 km diameter and consists of lumpy terrain reaching to about 3 km above the adjacent plains . |
| 27 | Politicians , once in government , tend to favour a budgetary system based on legal checks and balances , rather than one that is non-partisan and consists of social checks and balances . |
| 28 | The lower tier , the Board , is chaired by Professor Robert Steel , until recently the Principal of University College , Swansea , and consists of twenty members with representatives from local authorities , the WJEC , industry and business , the trade unions , and educational interests . |
| 29 | The swatch is of course common to all three and consists of 40 ROWS and 40 STITCHES , measured in MILLIMETRES . |
| 30 | Parliament is unicameral and consists of 81 members elected by single-member wards and group representation constituencies ( GRCs ) . |