Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone feels like this , |
| 2 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 3 | And they espouse causes and strike attitudes , and then after a while when they get old they think what-the-hell , and they start doing what they like and nothing matters at all . |
| 4 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 5 | We are seeking to develop and Advanced Courses structure which is more flexible and responsive and which contributes to major objectives of wider access , credit transfer and articulation . |
| 6 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 7 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 8 | A party to proceedings may at any time make a written offer to any other party to those proceedings which is expressed to be " without prejudice save as to costs " and which relates to any issue in the proceedings . |
| 9 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 10 | A new policy adopted by the conference failed to define a ‘ lawful trade dispute ’ and which forms of secondary action would be allowed . |
| 11 | The way to deal with the international support system at the moment is to reduce it right across the board — for all support systems to be reduced at a speed which farmers can bear and which bears on different types of farmers equally , both within the Community and as between the Community and our competitors in the United States . |
| 12 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 13 | Rather I wish to draw attention to a particular exhibit in the gallery which is quite simply the best that I have ever seen and which appeals at many levels : intellectual , artistic and aesthetic . |
| 14 | The third category is called the weak nuclear force , which is responsible for radioactivity and which acts on all matter particles of spin 1/2 , but not on particles of spin 0 , 1 , or 2 , such as photons and gravitons . |
| 15 | A semiconductor product is defined as : an article the purpose , or one of the purposes , of which is the performance of an electronic function and which consists of two or more layers , at least one of which is composed of semiconducting material and in or upon one or more of which is fixed a pattern appertaining to that or another function . |
| 16 | Communication , in these terms , has to do with some general UNIVERSE OF REFERENCE or MODEL OF REALITY which we as human beings carry inside our heads , and which consists of all the things we know , believe , judge or understand to be the case in the world in which we live . |
| 17 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 18 | Dot Location ( 32 card set ) : Cards on which a single dot appears either to the left or right of the centre , and which appears in any of 16 positions . |
| 19 | Sir Teddy Taylor recently articulated the argument that the anti-Common Marketeers have had to contend with and which has in many respects been found wanting . |
| 20 | Students from outside the UK should contact the International Office , which can supply a prospectus for non-graduating students and which deals with all applications from overseas . |
| 21 | Well , you see , it 's easier for me to sit here , and to pontificate , and therefore your questions were well put , erm , we can demonstrate , I think a much more effective approach to the environment in in our field , because er , we 're dealing with chemicals which we have some control over , and which exists to some small degree in air , air machines . |
| 22 | I got ta say that thousands of people wear contact lenses f through vanity and nobody complains about that , and that 's more unnatural . |
| 23 | I write as one who has cycled for over 40 years and who rides between 8,000 and 9,000 miles per year ( I am an occasional motorist too ) . |
| 24 | Neither may it appoint anyone who is or may have been a member , officer or employee of a local authority or voluntary organisation and who has in that capacity been directly concerned with arrangements for the child 's care , accommodation or welfare during the five years before the proceedings . |
| 25 | He is a man whose emotions are close to the surface , and who plunges into profound troughs . |
| 26 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 27 | Because she 's such a happy child and she copes with all the thing she has to have done . |
| 28 | So we 're quite proud of her , and she gets on great with the guys . |
| 29 | Yeah , the fat one 's Donna 's sister and Geraldine used to be best friends with Kelly and she lives in Big Ben . |
| 30 | Then she grabs the waistband of my trousers and tugs , and a button pops across the room , and she yanks on that zip like it ai n't gon na be needed any more and she slips her hand inside my pants . |