Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dense forests , coniferous and broad-leaved , also rocky gorges on mountains and in deserts , hunting at dawn and dusk for mammals as large as roe deer and birds as large as Capercaillie. 26–28 in. ( 66–71 cm . ) . |
| 2 | Britain has a whole new culture of public education to work out : new expectations , customs , relationships and attitudes more profound than the new vocabulary which is at present being learnt . |
| 3 | In many countries , too , since the Second World War , the linguistic and cultural scene has been further diversified with the arrival of immigrants from outside Europe , with languages and cultures substantially different from those of the host society . |
| 4 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 5 | The little grease-ball of a gaoler waddled off , taking us along passages and galleries as black as midnight , down steps coated with slime and human dirt where rats swarmed thick as fleas on a mangy dog . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , the different licensing systems in the different member states inhibit the provision of financial services between member states ; and different systems of company law may make joint ventures and mergers more costly and complicated . |
| 7 | Hermes also watched over travellers , and roads often sported wayside shrines or hermaeia which featured a bust of the god , or the herald 's staff which was his emblem . |
| 8 | Your attire must tell other walkers and climbers how serious you are , indicate the status you enjoy in the world of mountaineering , and not make locals in the mountain 's nearest bar fall dangerously silent when you pop in for a pint on the way back home . |
| 9 | The station buildings had to incorporate a variety of waiting-rooms for the classes , races , and sexes , restaurants and toilets equally diverse , as well as resting-rooms and bathrooms for Europeans . |
| 10 | A wide variety of sources and contacts both national and international are being drawn upon . |
| 11 | If the mother and foetus are incompatible , it can cause metabolic disorders resulting in mental handicap , although the problem is solvable , and cases now rare . |
| 12 | In the psychiatric field the higher proportion of male nurses and hours more conducive to full-time working for women present another pattern . |
| 13 | Even when they are only a few months old , they have claws and teeth quite long and sharp enough to damage one another . |
| 14 | Funny eyes , funny nose , mouth too big and teeth too crooked . |
| 15 | Reasonable jobs , best suit on Sundays and parlours as clean as operating theatres . |
| 16 | People try to classify what sorts of group or characteristics there are of groups and you find that people look at group size , let's go through the list , group size , communication networks , roles and expectations , norms and rules , okay well roles and expectations , norms and rules slightly different . |
| 17 | Here are some pointers to how we can make meetings and discussions more dramatic and accessible to all the children in the class : Establish in advance the purpose of the meeting — both for yourself and for the children . |
| 18 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 19 | Even ‘ Come here ’ , ‘ Go there ’ , ‘ Sit ’ , ‘ Walk ’ and many other sounds made by humans can be linked by the training and learning process to actions and meanings quite familiar to the creature . |
| 20 | Females and immatures even harder to distinguish , but adult female differs from Hen-Harrier in slenderer build and narrower white rump patch , and from Montagu 's in its blackish throat ruff . |
| 21 | Females slightly and immatures much browner above , immatures not rufous on thighs . |
| 22 | It is in the area of analysis of ideologies and religions especially that psychoanalysis has a role to play . |
| 23 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 24 | Buy organically-grown fruit , juices and vegetables whenever possible . |
| 25 | The Mexicans crossed the border to sell fruit and vegetables very cheap to the over-fed Americans , though Jane noticed that her overweight hosts made a great ceremony of using tablets instead of sugar in their coffee . |
| 26 | Parking is free and coaches very welcome ( coaches should approach from the south ) . |
| 27 | In the social sciences and humanities specially designated Data Archives already have a benefit of some twenty-five years of experience in storing and disseminating machine-readable files for secondary use ( Anderson 1992 ) . |
| 28 | The Treaty is not written on tablets of stone , it allows for changes and improvements as early as nineteen ninety six . |
| 29 | They are joined by an increasing number of younger people throughout our businesses who bring with them new knowledge and skills so essential to maintain a lead against global competition and benefit from changes in technology . |
| 30 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |