Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues . |
| 2 | Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ? |
| 3 | The Labour government elected in 1974 decided to concentrate its housing resources on the needs of the inner city areas and coupled this with changes in the basis of the rate support grant which disadvantaged rural local authorities . |
| 4 | What is believed to happen ( and plate tectonics is still only a matter of intelligent conjecture , not amenable to the kind of proof most sciences demand ) is that the Pacific Plate , being composed of heavier , oceanic rocks hits the Continental Plate and is forced down beneath it — ‘ subducted ’ , and propelled hundreds of kilometres downwards , towards the region of the mantle where it melts and becomes the stuff of volcanoes once again . |
| 5 | Peel , halve and core them and place them in a saucepan … cover with the wine and a broken cinnamon stick and heat until barely simmering … wash the monkfish and pat dry with kitchen paper … just as the liquid begins to caramelise , add the lemon juice and stir vigorously … reduced to a quarter of its original volume … add the cubes one at a time … thread the piece of monkfish … reserving the liquid … baste the fruit continuously … intersperse with pears … hand the sauce separately … |
| 6 | 1 Wash the fish thoroughly inside and out and pat dry with kitchen paper . |
| 7 | Rinse the pineapple and cherries to remove sugary coating and pat dry on kitchen paper . |
| 8 | Widnes held Cas and led 4-2 at half-time but once they had the wind at their backs in the second half , they began to dominate . |
| 9 | I see that you enjoy being with the boys very much , so go and sit next to Gilbert this afternoon . ’ |
| 10 | Amalgamemnon suggests that this split between fact and fiction corresponds to spheres of action and influence appropriate for men and for women . |
| 11 | John expressed a desire for milk and one man went on ahead to the surface and asked one of John 's neighbours to get out of bed and milk her cow . |
| 12 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 13 | He also spent a year in England and became fluent in English . |
| 14 | He trained as a painter in Vienna , spent long periods in Russia and France and became one of Hungary 's leading Romantic painters and illustrators . |
| 15 | Legislation was introduced in the session 1984 — 85 and became effective in April 1986 . |
| 16 | This reflects the second five year rent review for Head Office which took place in 1989 and became effective from August 1989 . |
| 17 | Simpson was born in Leith on the outskirts of Edinburgh in 1906 and became prominent with St Bernards in the 2nd Division of the Scottish League . |
| 18 | An estimated 150 anti-monarchists demonstrated in Bucharest on April 16 in support of the NSF 's decision , and became involved in brawls with hundreds of passers-by . |
| 19 | After service in the Royal Army Medical Corps , Dr Burkitt worked in Uganda and later joined the Medical Research Council and became involved in cancer research . |
| 20 | The team also began to analyse the skills required in investigative work and became involved in training courses on investigation . |
| 21 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 22 | He then returned to Newcastle as medical registrar to work with Professor F. J. Nattrass and became interested in neurology , acquiring the MD ( Durham ) and MRCP ( 1940 ) . |
| 23 | The proposed expenditure figure was in line with the 1991-95 medium-term defence spending programme , which was approved by the government on Dec. 20 and became operational in April 1991 . |
| 24 | He left school at 15 , worked as a labourer and then a printer and became active in trade union and Labour Party politics . |
| 25 | Educated in Coventry and at Durham University , she later studied at the Unversity of Iowa , and became active in politics as a researcher for Mr Tony Benn and Mr Alvin Tofler . |
| 26 | Bethnal Green fell under Merceron 's domination and became notorious for corruption . |
| 27 | Over the same period , the Church of Ireland experienced continuing rounds of church closures and became top-heavy in numbers of clergy . |
| 28 | Once in the carriage , Alexandra stopped feeling merely apprehensive and became sick with fright . |
| 29 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 30 | Subsequently he brought various inedible articles , such as bread dried to a crisp , and questionable pieces of shellfish , and placed these in front of them . |