Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 2 | The 1972 Act first of all gives legal effect to all existing and future Community law and renders it enforceable in the United Kingdom by United Kingdom agencies , including courts , ( s.2(1) ) . |
| 3 | Accordingly article 12 comes into operation and renders it mandatory for the court to order the return of the child forthwith . |
| 4 | Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | The former is the result of its initial work and produces its current 33MHz-40MHz Vikings . |
| 6 | The sea is a jeweller and cutter of gems who daily draws back the green felt covers and displays his precious work and then jealously hides them again with the green covers of the waves . |
| 7 | He takes her out and spoils her rotten like ! |
| 8 | ‘ The public house represents what should be the hub of our wheel of life , essential to our material need and second only to the church that stands and represents our spiritual necessity . |
| 9 | splits up and goes its separate ways we 're not getting ten gallons a minute through that pipe or through that or |
| 10 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |
| 11 | and drives you mad to fall in love at thirty . |
| 12 | Talking ( even if it is talking to yourself or your dog or your prize marrow ) nourishes and builds your aural memory-bank and uses your own ‘ speech experience ’ which aids speechreading . |
| 13 | After a reeve has mated she departs from the lek to lay her eggs and rears her young by herself . |
| 14 | It contains more moves , needs a higher level of skill and turns your centre-line clean away from the opponent . |
| 15 | She is supported by the man 's hands on her legs , and has her left hand on the man 's shoulder and her right hand on the head of the kneeling figure . |
| 16 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 17 | ‘ In this section — ‘ qualified company ’ means a company which satisfies the following conditions , namely — ( a ) it is incorporated in the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business there ; ( b ) at least the relevant percentage of its shares ( taken as a whole ) , and of each class of its shares , is legally and beneficially owned by one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( c ) at least the relevant percentage of its directors are qualified persons ; ‘ qualified person ’ means — ( a ) a person who is a British citizen resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom , or ( b ) a local authority in the United Kingdom ; and ‘ the relevant percentage ’ means 75 per cent . |
| 18 | Section 14(7) states that ‘ qualified person ’ means a person who is a British citizen resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom and that ‘ qualified company ’ means a company which is incorporated in the United Kingdom and has its principal place of business there ; at least 75 per cent . |
| 19 | ( A company is normally considered to be ‘ resident ’ only if it is incorporated in the UK , the Channel Islands , the Isle of Man or the Irish Republic and has its head office and place of central management in one of these jurisdictions . ) |
| 20 | A company will be considered resident in one of these territories if it is incorporated there and has its head office and place of management there . |
| 21 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 22 | It is a curious blend of delicacy and crudity and has something rough and barbarian about it . |
| 23 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 24 | He may be surprised at encountering an opponent in this weight division who stands 5ft 8in and has something special in body punches . |
| 25 | She has been elected to an emeritus fellowship , and has our good wishes for her retirement . |
| 26 | He ca n't walk and needs her constant attention . |
| 27 | GUIL : We 've got a letter ( ROS snatches it and tears it open . ) |
| 28 | It describes the situation in Scotland as I see it and contains nothing confidential ! ’ |
| 29 | The legislation therefore perpetuates women 's disadvantaged position in the labour market and reinforces their economic dependency out of employment , as will be shown shortly . |
| 30 | The research continues Dr Taylor 's previous work on the politics of Soviet cinema 1917-29 and on the use of film propaganda in the USSR and Nazi Germany and develops his long-term study of the history of propaganda in general . |