Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] of [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Drilled emplacement would require massive floating plantships or platforms displacing hundreds of thousands of tonnes , and situated hundreds of kilometres from land . |
| 8 | I used to buy a half a pound for 400 pesos and make thousands of papelitas to sell at 50 centavos . |
| 9 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 10 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 11 | In those years , he visited Vienna and met one of Meli 's relatives , Lotti Meitner-Graf — who became a firm friend of the couple . |
| 12 | By the time the week rolled around when she and Cara would start their trip , Fabia , who had managed to get hold of and read one of Venedelin Gajdusek 's translated works , was feeling as much in awe of the man as her sister . |
| 13 | Developers claim that tapping underground supplies in agricultural valleys would create many thousands of new jobs and bring billions of dollars in revenue to Nevada . |
| 14 | United kept Scunthorpe out and then went and made sure of victory with the second goal after seventy five minutes … no marks for slack defending by Scunthorpe … top marks for tenacity from skipper Derek hall … and that was his third strike of the season … |
| 15 | George Orwell wrote for the BBC Overseas Service and made hundreds of radio broadcasts , but no recording of his voice seems to have survived anywhere . |
| 16 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission will be combined with the Office of Fair Trading and made independent of government , increasing its effectiveness . |
| 17 | Evading questions about how he proposed to resist the will of virtually the whole Arab and international community , he said that Lebanon had not gone through 15 years of civil war , and given thousands of martyrs , for the dishonourable settlement the world was offering . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not simply a matter of buying a spool and catching millions of fish , ’ Chilton said , ‘ but the more skilful and forward-thinking anglers are developing its use all the time . |
| 19 | In its present form , rent restriction is causing an appalling wastage of existing accommodation and condemning millions of families to ever-worsening conditions , by restricting rents to levels which render the repair and maintenance of premises impossible . |
| 20 | Several days of unrest followed which spread across the country and involved thousands of students . |
| 21 | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider , nourished on venom , had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes , and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain . |
| 22 | And on a more down-to-earth level , its foraging habits have helped shape and preserve many of Africa 's habitats , from the semi-desert of Namibia to the rainforests of the Cameroon . |
| 23 | The Villa Parco is part of the esteemed Parco dei Principi complex , and has one of Sant' Agnello 's loveliest settings . |
| 24 | But Mrs Spence claims he then turned nasty and threatened her with a pistol and syringe full of morphine . |
| 25 | The Latin American economy is characterised by a large number of very small firms and yet some workers are employed by large transnationals using the most modern technology and employing thousands of workers . |
| 26 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |
| 27 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 28 | Tobacco smoke is highly complex and contains thousands of chemicals which are released into the air as particles and gases . |
| 29 | He goes to live in London with Herbert Pocket , and is turned into a gentleman , living an expensive but futile sort of existence , and becoming ashamed of Joe and his village origins . |
| 30 | Acting President Akbarsho Iskandarov and his coalition government resigned on Nov. 10 , calling for a ceasefire as pro-communist militias laid siege to Dushanbe and occupied much of Tajikistan . |