Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston drained his cup and beamed in self congratulation , giving a sly grin at Athelstan , who glared back . |
| 2 | TAKES 25 hectares of pasture that a farmer wants to drain and plough for winter wheat . |
| 3 | But the shrinkage and change in family structure and the alteration of some of its functions has coincided with a rise in the importance of the family as a focus of personal fulfilment . |
| 4 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 5 | All the possible permutations and combinations of server and client are explored , examined , dissected and explained in minute detail , together with advice on the loading order of device drivers and so on . |
| 6 | However , tests on the effects of a variety of conservation measures , including the incorporation of grass strips in cultivated maize fields and mulching with leaf litter from undisturbed forest , showed that the latter was particularly effective and reduced erosion by more than 90 per cent while , due to the nutrient input , productivity was increased by c. 30 per cent . |
| 7 | creating opportunities and providing conditions in which teachers can spend more time working together , sharing problems , commenting on each others ' performance , and collaborating in curriculum planning . |
| 8 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 9 | This is overcome by cutting a slightly ‘ loose ’ joint and lashing with nylon cord . |
| 10 | In order for this to happen a decentralised partnership between residential workers and social service teams is required , which ensures joint participation and influence in child care decisions . |
| 11 | Melissa declined Barney 's offer of wine and asked for mineral water . |
| 12 | Brought up in the slums of Cowgate , Connolly left St Patrick 's School at ten and became in turn printer 's ‘ devil ’ , bakery hand , and tiling-factory worker . |
| 13 | Living in camps , they carried out conservation work , planting new forests and helping with flood control projects . |
| 14 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 15 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 16 | Member states shall ensure in particular equal conditions of access to and use of the fishing grounds situated in the waters referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph for all fishing vessels flying the flag of a member state and registered in Community territory . |
| 17 | The Dick Boolootian machines ( SM845 and TP298 ) were acquired by the David Tallichet organisation and placed under contract restoration in the US with an operation in Tulsa , Oklahoma . |
| 18 | Mr Abdić , who was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and also a member of the federal parliament , was soon dismissed from both these positions and placed under house arrest . |
| 19 | A special court trying Ershad under anti-corruption legislation ordered confiscation of the money , which was found in his official residence after he was forced to resign and placed under house arrest in December 1990 . |
| 20 | Small pieces ( about 3×2 cm ) of resected colon were obtained within 30 minutes of removal from patients having colectomy for cancer or diverticular disease , and placed in ice cold Krebs-Henseleit buffer at pH 7.4 ( Sigma Chemical Co , Poole , UK ) containing 11.1 mM glucose , gentamicin 100 µg/ml and nystatin 60 µ/ml,; which was pregassed with 95% O 2 /5% CO 2 . |
| 21 | The body was to be dissected at a public lecture by Southwood Smith to be entitled ‘ The Structures and Functions of the Human Frame ’ , after which the skeleton was to be used as the armature of an image — an ‘ auto-icon ’ — of himself , to be attired in his own clothes and placed in University College . |
| 22 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 23 | An individual who is passive , utterly apathetic and withdrawn from community life is no true citizen . |
| 24 | Their clover-leaf form was shaped nearly 5,000 years ago from massive boulders moved and stacked by muscle power . |
| 25 | All personal details are treated as strictly confidential and remain on computer file . |
| 26 | Fires and looting after assault court hearing |
| 27 | Marcel Berlins writes : ‘ I 'm pleased to see that the Bar has set up a committee to monitor and research into sex discrimination in the profession . ’ |
| 28 | We found him sitting regally cross-legged on the floor , surrounded by elders chewing tobacco , their mouths rouged and swollen with betelnut juice . |
| 29 | Rebecque , his eyes red and swollen from hay fever , reined his horse alongside Sharpe . |
| 30 | A three year battle against a vile aluminium flue on the building near to our kitchen window — some 16″ diameter , nearly fifty feet high and noisy to boot ( apart from being illegal and erected without planning permission ) . |