Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put another way , the area which can properly be called the ‘ tectonic Pacific ’ is one of relatively low altitude that is bounded by a ring of islands and mountains which have been — and are still being — formed by the geological processes that occur when one tectonic plate bumps into and grinds against another . |
| 2 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 3 | The EIB provides loans and guarantees in most economic sectors to promote the development of poorer regions , to restructure industry and assist member states in common projects , usually in the infrastructure field . |
| 4 | Agrees with so and so and agrees with this and agrees with that . |
| 5 | Agrees with so and so and agrees with this and agrees with that . |
| 6 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 7 | He 's been a member of the Medieval Circle for twelve years and goes to all their functions . |
| 8 | He will be best at three miles and goes on any ground . |
| 9 | Five goes into itself once , and goes into that , erm , eight times , so it 's going to be an eighth . |
| 10 | Now , when the police officer when the police officer comes to court and goes through this statement , and it 's a confession , what would you normally call what he 's reading out ? |
| 11 | She turns round and you say something in then goes you know with absolutely no whatsoever and she turns round and goes like that like Jay does . |
| 12 | I picked her up by her neck and I said you bitch and she goes when you put your face up close to her she goes and puts her ears back and goes like that to your face . |
| 13 | There is one very bad answer to this question , which is depressingly common and goes like this . |
| 14 | runs along splash , does n't even make it , make it round , he just and goes like this and then , and then lands in the water like that . |
| 15 | The third method , grafting , is similar to budding and differs in that a short section of wood with more than one eye is enjoined instead of a single bud . |
| 16 | The extent to which true devolution of powers to Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland is necessary or desirable is controversial and differs in each case . |
| 17 | The line which the law draws is at the very least indistinct , and turns on such imponderables as malum in se , mayhem , degrees of harmfulness , and public policy , and calls for an examination of such unsatisfactory cases as Donovan , Bravery v. |
| 18 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 19 | The meal over , she takes off again and flies to another part of the cave where there is less pandemonium . |
| 20 | The sensitivity to contextual manipulations of the latent inhibition produced by lengthy exposure is certainly consistent with the suggestion that a context-stimulus association is responsible for the effect seen at 24 h and contributes to that seen at 4 h . |
| 21 | The branch is involved in the Greater Notts TEC and contributes to this involvement considerably . |
| 22 | It continues the development of oral/aural skills begun in Departures and adds to this a greater emphasis on reading skills , now that students have progressed beyond the beginner level . |
| 23 | Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ . |
| 24 | She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies . |
| 25 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 26 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 27 | If so he wonders if the patient needs to cry and has for some reason stopped himself . |
| 28 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 29 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
| 30 | Speranskii 's consequent package of reforms is too complex to be analysed in detail at this point , and has in any case been thoroughly investigated by Marc Raeff . |