Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does mean that law is not a fixed , precise and immutable set of rules ; and that not only its content but also its form are subject to interpretation , adaptation and change as part of and in response to social change . |
| 2 | The company was returned to private ownership in mid-1987 in what was seen as a retrenchment and change in direction of its development . |
| 3 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 4 | It is a quaint custom in which our villagers ‘ beat the bounds , ’ ride around on trailers pulled by tractors and sit on bales of straw . |
| 5 | I am nine and-a-half years old and sit in front of the television in England with my brother , watching characters like Meg and Sandy argue in the Cross roads motel , while fat Benny , the tele West Country moron in woolly hat , eats lots of pies . |
| 6 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 7 | ‘ The only thing the Met-does best is beat up blacks and sit in front of bloody computers planning how to crush the coming riots of Thatcher 's underclass . ’ |
| 8 | Did he behave like a guest or did he take his jacket off and sit in front of the fire like one of the family ? ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , well they well they go up the Legion and have a couple of pints , go to the bookie and put some horses on , go home and sit in front of the telly watching horses like . |
| 10 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 11 | ( NEB ) , not ‘ go and unite in acts of worship to their gods ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 13 | Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . |
| 14 | Day 1 Rent — At this stage there is a future benefit so set up an asset and review at end of month . |
| 15 | Although Margaret knew I would not support her , I was on reasonable terms with her-so much so that during the battle for the Leadership I attended her constituency annual dinner and dance as guest of honour . |
| 16 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 17 | Philip of Swabia had restored the title of king to Ottokar , duke of Bohemia , a fief of the German empire , on his eastern borders , but Ottokar was persuaded by Innocent to desert Philip and declare for Otto of Brunswick . |
| 18 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 19 | A learner 's dictionary will define far fewer words and concentrate on examples of usage for those words . |
| 20 | However most of these assume that misspelled words have been identified , and concentrate on methods of comparison of the word in error to a number of candidates . |
| 21 | Siemens Nixdorf has decided to buy in commercially available printed circuit boards and concentrate on production of complex boards at its Augsburg plant , but there are no further plant closure plans beyond those in Berlin and Cologne already announced . |
| 22 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 23 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 24 | One must simply accept these performances at face value and forget about problems of piano versus harpsichord versus clavichord . |
| 25 | Neaten shoulder seam allowances together and press towards front of sleeve ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | The law and legal rules incorporate and build upon perceptions of reality . |
| 27 | would n't you liked to be in a pop group and appear on Top of The Pops ? |
| 28 | ( 8 ) For appeals , see 5.39 and Lightheart v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1978 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 41 . |
| 29 | The matrix is now unc and after the six multiplications implied ( see ( 4 ) ) in unc it becomes unc Thus A — 0.2I has a zero eigenvalue ; we recover B by adding 0.2I and can then deflate and consider the reduced matrix unc Once again , to avoid repetitive labour in the example , we use hindsight : we now apply a shift of 0.4 and consider unc We require only one step ( four multiplications ) to reduce this to unc We now recover unc by adding 0.4I and deflate by omission of the last row and column : unc In any similar transform of unc the trace and determinant are unaltered . |
| 30 | Use some red icing to cover the smallest cake and place on top of the green and white parcels . |