Example sentences of "and [vb -s] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and plays on the pink film of their eyelids ; |
| 2 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 3 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 4 | XPG4 — originally set to come out last May , but delayed due to ‘ complex documentation ’ ( UX No 385 ) is the next-generation of X/Open 's Portability Guide , and builds on the long-established XPG3 , which first saw the light of day back in September 1988 ( UX No 197 ) . |
| 5 | The way this government control has come to be accepted as normal and proper can be seen by the irritated reactions of ministers and whips on the odd occasions when something goes wrong . |
| 6 | They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects . |
| 7 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 8 | The Shipman 's portrait in the General Prologue is a case , like that of the Yeoman , where a distance and unfamiliarity between " Chaucer " and the pilgrim is conveyed by a naive curiosity with which " Chaucer 's " description focuses and lingers on the sharp and pointed or menacing aspects of the pilgrim 's accoutrements . |
| 9 | Stitching pains and lies on the painful side |
| 10 | Stitching pains ( like Kali carb. ) and lies on the painful side ( unlike Belladonna or Kali carb . ) ; |
| 11 | The " something " which is said is called by Guillaume an " import of meaning " ( 1984 : 120 – 2 ) and corresponds on the linguistic level to the lexeme or non-grammatical part of the word 's meaning . |
| 12 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 13 | Life-style is a manifestation of a number of behavioural factors , such as motivation , personality and culture , and depends on the economic status of the people in question . |
| 14 | The response of polymers to mechanical stresses can vary widely , and depends on the particular state the polymer is in at any given temperature . |
| 15 | Volume 47 ( 1993 ) will include articles and reviews on the following subjects : |
| 16 | The " wrap around " recognises and acts on the following events : An escape condition ( the |
| 17 | The latter assumes a low profile and concentrates on the pastoral approach . |
| 18 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 19 | Apart from the inputs and outputs described above this procedure checks whether each reference measure lies outside a certain percentage tolerance , checks for low-light conditions ( failure to see the reference card ) and checks on the current number of bad readings . |
| 20 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 21 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 22 | This meeting notes with concern the potential for exploitation of junior members of the Bar with the introduction of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts and calls on the Legal Aid and Fees Committee to liaise with the Law Society , the Legal Aid Board and the Lord Chancellor 's Department with a view to agreeing a fair approach to fixing Counsel 's fees and making such practical arrangements as are necessary . ’ |
| 23 | the ‘ straddle ’ , consisting of an equal number of puts and calls on the same share , either bought or written ; |
| 24 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 25 | A 350,000-tonne ULCC drawing 73 feet would have to beware of shoals and submerged ironmongery such as pipelines and wrecks on the Arabian side . |
| 26 | The filter , as you may recall , is an external upflow model with three gate valves , no less ( two to facilitate back-washing ) , and relies on the sintered glass medium , Siporax , for its astonishing claims to biological efficiency . |
| 27 | Do use the correct brushes and combs on the correct part of your pony 's anatomy — and use them tactfully . |
| 28 | To print , you feed the paper through one side of the machine and the document goes under the keyboard and appears on the other side . |
| 29 | This anagogical use of language points to a realm of experience beyond that of its immediate field of reference , and draws on the alternative life-style of the contemplative . |
| 30 | Everything was laid out neatly , brushes and paints on the clean , scrubbed tops . |