Example sentences of "and [subord] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |
| 2 | " There is your mother , " they say , " the place we all come from and where we all return , and there is no need to weep . " |
| 3 | This article identifies conditions under which the service activities of professionals and paraprofessionals can be more productive and where their joint contribution to human well-being can be enhanced . |
| 4 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 5 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 6 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 7 | This is an issue which we must now confront by considering what range of mystical activity the term religion includes and where its outer limits lie . |
| 8 | The unit moved to Loughborough University in 1976 , where its title was subsequently changed to the Centre for Library and Information Management ( CLAIM ) , and where its new objectives are to improve the effectiveness of service to users . |
| 9 | ‘ Can you recall when and where you last saw the diary ? ’ |
| 10 | But in the end it 's probably best not to know who and where it all was . |
| 11 | But for a moment , between the door of the cage and where I first took stance , I could feel the greatness of the sky , it was on my wings . |
| 12 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 13 | By sending a letter enclosing a stamped addressed envelope to one of these centres , you can find out who and where your nearest practitioner is . |
| 14 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 15 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 16 | Whilst we believe in our biologically-determined nature , there will be no possible utopia apart from these two : a matriarchy run by morally superior women , where desire is excluded , and where our innate niceness means that we can all live happily ever after ; or , we let the chaos out , and we rule fiercely and savagely for a short-lived reign , our ferocious and insatiable desire destroying everything around us . |
| 17 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 18 | And so they all agreed . |
| 19 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 20 | However , both the Warsaw Pact and NATO have changed since the 1950s , and although their military hegemony , based largely on phenomenal nuclear overkill capacity , remains unsurpassed , other blocs have arisen to challenge them on a variety of strategic issues . |
| 21 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 22 | The NUM is firmly based within a definite branch of the division of labour , although it cuts across enterprise ( i. e. colliery ) boundaries and although its political interventions often find an echo in other branches . |
| 23 | The Hartlepool Express Laundry ( 861–086 ) goes all over the North-East and although its main customers are businesses , it 's attracting an increasing number of private customers as word spreads . |
| 24 | No actress alive better captures the ferocious pathos of the little heartbreak writ large , and although her immaculate comic technique sustains whole passages of visual lunacy , she has in addition the much rarer theatrical gift of being able to transmit emotion in its purest form . |
| 25 | Shirley Booth played this role , and although her squeaky voice is a bit of a shock at first , she still dominates the recording , with only Johnny Johnston 's warm baritone making any real impact alongside her . |
| 26 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 27 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 28 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 29 | Taniguchi was adopted at eight and although his conscious mind has no memory of his past his unconscious mind keeps regurgitating unfortunate images of cruelty . |
| 30 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |