Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 2 | It was pointed out that the education budget had grown each year since 1988 and that for 1991 it again exceeded the defence budget . |
| 3 | ‘ And you say she said that eagles of Callanish carry a burden and that for some it is hard … ’ and her voice drifted into a distance . |
| 4 | The reality of the narrow market town belied his long-nurtured recollections of it , and some of those he had loved most were now gone . |
| 5 | The shareware world is jam-packed with utilities and some of these you 'll still find invaluable . |
| 6 | And all through this she did not think of Giles . |
| 7 | Well , I suppose that er er i it i it is a barrier of some , some sort , some sort , but it does n't strike me as being a very strong one , er and all of this you see is and I say this to Noble Lords in all parts of the House , all of this is part of the continuing destruction of local authorities |
| 8 | ‘ People on low incomes will be getting some help to pay the fuel bills and all in all it 's a Budget that 's not as bad as we expected , ’ Mr Bull said . |
| 9 | The author is 28 , film options have already been sold , Penguin is pushing it , and all in all it 's terrific , a sophisticated literary novel that could straddle the markets . |
| 10 | The people in the business had lost confidence in themselves and all in all it was a dismal picture . |
| 11 | Money is harder to come by , and all in all it 's a depressing time . |
| 12 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
| 13 | Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species . |
| 14 | Tragically , more are becoming HIV infected , and many of those we care for with AIDS today were infected as teenagers . |
| 15 | Help , she told him , and most of all they wanted , needed , to know exactly what was going on . |
| 16 | The programme is simple but certainly not easy and most of all it is individual : nobody can give recovery to anyone else , each recovering person has to work for his or her own recovery . |
| 17 | He fought many successful campaigns , both in terms of warfare and diplomacy , and most of all he upheld the medieval system of fervent religious belief combined with regal authority . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's not crafty enough , he has n't got the brains and most of all he has n't got the ability . |
| 19 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 20 | He knew the fine private collections that were being amassed by men like Frank Burty , who was a friend , and most of all he must have been interested in the objects bought by his painter friends . |
| 21 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |