Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Department of Geology and Geophysics offers a degree in Geophysics and an introductory course which serves as an appropriate outside subject for many honours degrees .
2 The challenge of his person and teaching involves a turnabout , a change of direction involving heart and action , repentance ( metanoia ) .
3 Making the capacitance and resistance yields a time constant RC = 1 ms and leads to rejection at a frequency of 160 Hz , for example .
4 Sequences of familiar violence are interspersed with achingly beautiful , melancholy moments , and Peckinpah marshalls a posse of bit part stalwarts ( Slim Pickens , Jack Elam , Richard Jaeckel , Harry Dean Stanton , Katy Jurady , Chill Will , Elisha Cook , Matt Clark , R G Armstrong ) and pays tribute to their contributions to literally hundreds of Westerns as he leaves them dead in the dust to the accompaniment of a Bob Dylan score .
5 It is wise to book well in advance , although Home & Pet Care will do its best to provide emergency cover at short notice , and Homesitters offers a back-up service if your sitter becomes ill .
6 The extensive range of machinery and accessories includes a range of workbenches and power tool stands , portable mortising machines , whetstone grinders , sawbench , pillar drill and router table .
7 Lashing of mortise and tenons produces a combination of strength and flexibility
8 To its critics , the Plan conjures a grim vision of a future in which the home of the Beach Boys , fresh air and freedom becomes a battle-ground between suffocating fumes and suffocating regulations .
9 There is some role conflict when the librarian educated in a tradition of user-helping and support finds a situation calling for regulation ( even law enforcement ) that may appear to be a negative role .
10 News and Views gets a flavour of her work from sorting out chip butties to banquets .
11 He 's had problems lately : they need working capital and Matt has a dread of , as he put it , ‘ getting into the hands of the bank ’ .
12 As we have seen , the Marxist perspective on stratification and inequality envisages a time when class inequality can and will eventually disappear , after the destruction of capitalism and its replacement by a new socioeconomic order .
13 Two moles of CO2 have a mass of 88 grams and n moles a mass of n X 44 grams .
14 Detection of genetic alterations in ulcerative colitis associated carcinomas and dysplasia provides a range of potential markers for early diagnosis .
15 Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that .
16 This requires both parallel processing and a system of constraint satisfaction , and connectionism offers a way of implementing such a system .
17 Now what Mike is talking about is the kind of historical parallel to this and Freud mentions a number of examples .
18 Phoenix has a lot of under-employed property developers and Kuwait has a lot of re-building to do .
19 The old woman from the shop asks her if it fits and Marie does a couple of turns in front of the mirror .
20 His high profile as a comedian , poet , singer and musician has a lot to do with the regular weekly poem he writes for the Weekend Guardian , recent appearances on radio in ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Loose Ends ’ and the ‘ Time Out ’ Cabaret Award , but it is in his live stage act that he can best be appreciated as an hilarious dead-pan comic .
21 Replacement of the inductor of a simple L-R filter by a series or parallel combination of an inductor and capacitor creates a band-pass or band-stop filter on account of the resonant response .
22 ‘ The universities have a lot to offer industry , and industry has a lot to offer universities , and I do n't just mean money , ’ he said .
23 The third example of the rhetorical use of anthropology by Marx and Engels concerns a topic linked to relations of production and the family : the nature of property .
24 Exploration for gold and silver requires a licence from the Crown Estate Commissioners , as in Great Britain .
25 The romantic equation of orphan and monster makes a Satanist of this forlorn Dyer : ‘ nor can we but by doing Evil avoid the rage of evil Spirits . ’
26 ‘ More than ever before the beer drinker and pubgoer needs a watchdog to protect their interests . ’
27 The Longbridge car plant in the constituency has suffered in the recession and Labour needs a swing of only 2.5 per cent .
28 Copernicus , on the left , raises the possibility of the earth 's motion , Galileo produces his telescope , and Kepler expresses a desire for wings that he might visit the new world — as indeed he had dreamed of doing in his unpublished Copernican text Somnium .
29 Lotus managing director Peter Collins said : ‘ Lotus has made significant progress in 1993 and Mugen-Honda has a wealth of knowledge and experience with the V10 concept , which is currently the optimal configuration . ’
30 In Barthes 's later work this plurality of structures and elements becomes a strength of the analysis .
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