Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 2 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 3 | Each kiln takes a ton and a half of wood … and produces about a quarter of that weight as charcoal . |
| 4 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 5 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 6 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 7 | The restaurant is open to guests and non-guests for lunch and dinner and offers both a table d'hôte and à la carte menu . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 9 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 10 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 11 | Small centres of excellence are a good idea ; and bringing together a group of experts in a subject could produce some interesting research . |
| 12 | And behold , thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son , and shalt call his name Jesus . |
| 13 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 14 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 15 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 16 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 17 | 1 A group of words frequently found together and producing collectively a meaning not apparent from the meaning of each component part of the group ( Ridout and Clarke 1970 ) . |
| 18 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 19 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 20 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 22 | He stayed at the hospital until 1949 , when a Bloomsbury House visitor reported : ‘ He looks extremely well , but unshaven … he is in an open ward and has quite a lot of freedom … |
| 23 | He seems to be settling in well , and has quite a lot of contact with Richard . |
| 24 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 25 | She does high-impact classes 2-4 times a month , dabbles in Callanetics and swam once a week for a month . |
| 26 | ‘ Ach , to the devil with all MacIans ! ’ he grunted in pain and satisfaction , tugging it out and knocking aside a spear left-handed . |
| 27 | Er I think in an age of such individualism er the whole natu nature and possibility of common confession of faith becomes difficult er and I 'd simply ask that , if it 's going to go ahead and consider possibly a confession of faith , that the panel er might give consideration to the difficulties gen gen generally involved in er the , the question of common confession of faith today . |
| 28 | The Luggage yawned , and moved forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 29 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 30 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |