Example sentences of "and [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth . |
| 2 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 3 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 4 | Then , on some mysterious cue , they emerge simultaneously from the soil and change into winged adults . |
| 5 | A more gender-balanced communication requires that there be a process of redefinition and change in all areas of human activity . |
| 6 | The last ten years have seen the beginnings of a trend away from the study of objects for their own sake , stimulated partly by the discovery and excavation of settlement sites which have encouraged the formulation of a new range of questions ; the nature of and change in human societies have replaced the barren side of the artefacts . |
| 7 | Development and change in everyday likes and dislikes |
| 8 | Recent research reveals the importance of kinship and lineage in non-human primates . |
| 9 | The development of play leads naturally towards involvement in games , which begin in imitative practice such as tying a shoelace , and develop towards symbolic constructions such as of villages or weddings . |
| 10 | Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres . |
| 11 | He stressed that community ethics must question a system that marginalises people by monopolising information and communication systems and insist on radical changes in society 's communication structures . |
| 12 | WACC is equally grateful to all those women who keep up the pressure and insist on equal opportunities for women and men . |
| 13 | Mr Gould promised the party would restore ‘ the great utilities ’ to public ownership and insist on higher standards of regulation than those which had prevailed under the Conservatives . |
| 14 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 15 | Outside diners are given a choice of fish or meat main course when they book , and sit at smaller tables around the antique-filled dining room . |
| 16 | Perhaps they would go down to the harbour in the evening and watch the yachts coming in to the anchorage , and sit with other groups at the chairs and tables outside the Bell Inn . |
| 17 | He was an investment banker and financier , in his early fifties , with contacts and influence into all reaches of Industry and Government . |
| 18 | It is therefore incorrect to attribute all the credit for the promise of full employment to the conversion of men of power and influence to Keynesian ideas . |
| 19 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 20 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 21 | By the early 1970s the struggle was over , and the decline in the Chiefs of Staff 's activity and influence in national affairs was soon being reflected in the steady drop in the frequency of their meetings . |
| 22 | Signor Datrino attributes his success and influence within Russian circles to the ideal combination of Russian fatalism and Italian fantasy , noting that he has achieved enormous recognition for his efforts , including the patronage of the Italian President Scalfaro who will be paying a visit . |
| 23 | The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom . |
| 24 | This deficiency is linked in some way to the death of nerve cells that arise in the forebrain and connect to many regions of the cerebral cortex . |
| 25 | I would imagine that fish such as Elephant-Noses and Knife Fish , which navigate and communicate by electrical impulses would also benefit , being especially sensitive to electricity . |
| 26 | It is a peculiar text to publish in a catalogue which will have greater circulation and sell in larger quantities than either Sylvester 's monograph or the catalogue raisonné . |
| 27 | Keep this simple : walk , trot and canter on both reins , plus halt , will be sufficient . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 29 | They squawk and scratch with unturned-out feet in temps levés and batterie , elbows flapping and heads pecking and poking . |
| 30 | After a walk and trot on both reins , Jennie told Katharine to make some serpentine loops throughout the whole school to help supple him laterally . |