Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 3 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 4 | One is to give all the children obstacles such as sacks , boxes , old tyres , ladders and ropes and give them the opportunity to make up their own course . |
| 5 | Members of the group agree to document the project with photographs and notes and to continue it after the Design students graduate . |
| 6 | Today 's agricultural and forestry methods have caused a decline in broadleaf woodlands and coppices , affecting the animals and birds that inhabit them and the general landscape . |
| 7 | There has been a consistent failure to direct the fruits of growth to the areas , industries , and groups that need it most . |
| 8 | Module timetable confirming the agreed times and groups and detailing which rooms have been booked . |
| 9 | 3 Do n't repeat wrong sounds and forms when correcting them . |
| 10 | No work that properly considers developments in different countries and continents and pieces them together in a satisfying , narrative whole . |
| 11 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 12 | Human beings can hear or see or feel ‘ noisy ’ signals in particular places and times and use their expectations about the ‘ there and then ’ into a perception of what signals mean . |
| 13 | And a final $10 billion would be offered at low interest rates as part of a long-term economic plan to help the Soviet Union build some decent factories and roads and exploit its natural resources . |
| 14 | But it was the glory of Sgurr an Lochain , faceted and sculpted in ice and snow and with golden light gleaming from its snowfields and cornices that entranced me . |
| 15 | Pigs live in forests and grasslands and spend their time eating ( almost anything ) , sleeping ( always under cover ) and , if they 're female , being with each other . |
| 16 | It embraces the various institutions that make up that the state — the House of Commons , the Cabinet , the civil service and so on — as well as the fundamental practices and rules that identify which institutions have power and how they relate to each other and to the larger political community . |
| 17 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 18 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 19 | She sampled calamares and boquerónes and dipped her bread in the marinade . |
| 20 | Wash and chop the apples and raisins and put them in a plastic bucket with one crushed campden tablet . |
| 21 | They would sip sherry or port , nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness . |
| 22 | Children are not , however , independent of the nexus of expectations , attitudes and values that surround them . |
| 23 | It is at grass roots level that teachers can best foster the development of existing good practice , identify specific professional needs , challenge their own attitudes , assumptions and values and analyse their practice . |
| 24 | Bradbury delivered a lecture to the Royal Institution of Great Britain on Nature-Printing : its Origin and Objects and published it in 1856 . |
| 25 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 26 | As suggested this arises in major part because the term has proved symbolically powerful in drawing attention to a series of adult-child issues and phenomena and legitimating them as a social problem . |
| 27 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 28 | The trouble is it costs a lot more than we can afford so I end up buying fruit and vegetables and washing it really well . ’ |
| 29 | The student recalls the relevant concepts , rules and skills and combines them to form a solution to a problem . |
| 30 | The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual . |