Example sentences of "and [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston drained his cup and beamed in self congratulation , giving a sly grin at Athelstan , who glared back . |
| 2 | He put his hand in his jacket pocket , searching for his wallet , and as he did , Doug , serious now , yanked Harry towards him and whispered in tones from which all traces of his cockney accent were now absent . |
| 3 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 4 | Sir Brian suddenly lifted his face and whispered in Athelstan 's ear . |
| 5 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 6 | While England sent no revivalist as famous as Moody she did send a number of famous ministers and the works of her most famous preachers were avidly bought and consumed in America . |
| 7 | Topics covered in the final year include Issues in Sport , Innovation and Change in Sport , Individual Performance and Sport , Practical Studies , Management , Policy Making and Planning . |
| 8 | The company was returned to private ownership in mid-1987 in what was seen as a retrenchment and change in direction of its development . |
| 9 | In practice the procedures adopted by local authorities differ widely , and change in response to political control and financial stress . |
| 10 | This multiplicity of objectives , and the way in which they are defined through the political process and change in response to changing political priorities , distinguishes state enterprises from private firms . |
| 11 | What determines whether people see a glass as half-full or half-empty is mood rather than fact , and change in mood often defies quantification . |
| 12 | The structuralist account portrays structures as relatively unchanging and self-reproducing ; the post-structuralism of Foucault discerns and investigates a continual flux and change in society and in structures themselves . |
| 13 | It did not generate a framework that would help us understand the nature of continuity and change in Britain . |
| 14 | The implication of this is that there is more scope for innovation and change in Europe than there is in the UK . |
| 15 | But the shrinkage and change in family structure and the alteration of some of its functions has coincided with a rise in the importance of the family as a focus of personal fulfilment . |
| 16 | The question as to whether time could conceivably exist if there were no ‘ soul , ( or mind ) to apprehend it had been raised , but not answered , by Aristotle , whose definition of time as the ‘ numbering ’ of motion and change in relation to before and after appeared to presuppose the existence of a ‘ soul ’ that contemplates and measures it . |
| 17 | We may now assess the significance of his role by examining the themes of continuity and change in relation to his twin principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law . |
| 18 | The absence of any relation between birth weight and change in blood pressure percentile rank between 5–7 and 9–11 years suggested that the relation between birth weight and blood pressure is established by 5–7 years and that the subsequent increase in the strength of the association is due to blood pressure tracking and to the increasing dispersion of the blood pressure distribution with age . |
| 19 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 20 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 21 | What does this linguistic variation mean , and what contribution can our analysis of variable states of language make to understanding variation and change in language generally ? |
| 22 | The article , headed ‘ Tragic Secrets of Jackie 's British Brother and Sister ’ , said that in 1972 Gale , 27 , was stabbed and buried alive in Trinidad by henchman of the late Michael X a former black power leader and racketeer in London . |
| 23 | As this indicates , most are somewhat one-sided and limited in scope , and we need to move towards a synthesis which can enable us to grasp the most significant relationships and processes involved in the local politics of an increasingly diversified , and ‘ restructured ’ , Britain . |
| 24 | The dictum echoes a mood wider than post-war Britain , where the moment of Christian revival among the lettered was brief and limited in scope . |
| 25 | The performances may sound hoarse , and limited in range ; but once you 've heard them , you find them running through your mind . |
| 26 | The inspection is similar to that carried out for the Structural Survey , however because the report is in a standard format , the information conveyed is more concise and limited in order to identify the more important defects , bearing in mind the property 's type and age . |
| 27 | Jobs were certainly created , but generally as by-employments , and limited in number . |
| 28 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 29 | Their deaths prompted Betty Williams and Anne 's sister Mairead Corrigan to begin a campaign for peace — a campaign capturing headlines around the world , a campaign that drew upwards of 3 , people to mass rallies and marches in Belfast . |
| 30 | Claudia looked at her watch and exclaimed in shock . |