Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just ten feet below the fox and some seventy feet from the ground , he stopped and clung tightly as the pole swayed in the wind . |
| 2 | Sioli ( 1985 ) has examined the effects of deforestation in relation to the Amazonian environment and points out that the disruption of biogeochemical cycles by burning renders nutrients susceptible to leaching . |
| 3 | The editorial deals with the Opposition 's topic of encouraging people to buy British and points out that the Opposition 's deputy leader has just bought a foreign car . |
| 4 | The council is overbudget and points out that the workshops are facing difficult trading conditions during the recession . |
| 5 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 6 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 7 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 8 | Most were working to clean weapons or saddlery , and only a few looked up and gazed incuriously as the party rode past . |
| 9 | The Brigadier was red in the face : Things are n't as they should be … ’ he began again , and tailed off as the Captain indicated that he should sit down . |
| 10 | This can be done in two ways , either by giving a description of a world for which the principle fails and proving formally that the description is consistent , or informally by appeal to a counterexample . |
| 11 | NICK HASTED sits back and shuts up while the rejuvenated director talks … and talks … |
| 12 | Go to the top floor of your house and remain there till the water goes down … ’ |
| 13 | Messages can be received and transmitted automatically whilst the operator is preparing another message on the screen . |
| 14 | The gunman had stopped shooting and made off after a passing motorist arrived on the scene , the court heard . |
| 15 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 16 | When the chief minister of Maharashtra became uppity earlier this year , Mr Gandhi arranged for dissidents to mount a campaign to get rid of him , and relented only after the chief minister ate humble pie . |
| 17 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 18 | It is here that Tricia loves to entertain and eat out when the weather 's right . |
| 19 | There was no need for me to get up and prowl around while the rest of the family was sleeping because I could read all night , if I wanted to , and if I did n't get up until the middle of the day , no one seemed to mind very much . |
| 20 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 21 | The Vendor in relation to the Business is not and has not since the Balance sheet Date been engaged in any legal proceedings ( civil or criminal ) or arbitration as plaintiff , defendant or otherwise howsoever ( except as plaintiff in normal debt collection and in respect of which the aggregate amount of debts due to the Vendor and for which the Vendor is engaged or likely to become engaged in proceedings prior to Completion does not exceed £500 ) and there are no circumstances likely to lead to any legal proceedings or arbitration ( whether against the Vendor or by the Vendor any third party ) . |
| 22 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 23 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 24 | As Tempy helped her into her riding clothes , Tamar fidgeted and moved about until the maid was driven to distraction . |
| 25 | found this to be so , and demonstrated also that the latent inhibition produced by brief exposure to the odour was unaffected by contextual change . |
| 26 | and also state that their Fig. 1 b ( ref. 1 ) shows a ‘ coherent mixing trend ’ defined by slight variations in their reconstructed ground-mass compositions ( A , B , C and D ) , and suggest further that the Y6N17 groundmass lies along the same mixing trend as that previously noted for the Haiti glasses . |
| 27 | The location of the flight , up the steep hillside , had indeed been suggested by James Barnes in 1902 , but the idea was not taken very seriously and forgotten altogether as the Telford plan developed . |
| 28 | Carefully reposition the bridge and press firmly until a small bead of glue appears around the edge . |
| 29 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 30 | One could relax the postulate of decisiveness of inhibition , and propose instead that the activation of letter detectors was more-or-less rather than all-or-none . |