Example sentences of "and [conj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is an obvious parallel , therefore , between the bare infinitive 's use in exclamations and that after need and dare .
2 Finnish Environment Minister , Kaj Barlund , said that sulphur deposits in the south of the country " surpass the level nature can bear by two or three times " and that unless action was taken they would face serious problems in the next 10-20 years .
3 I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ .
4 I ca n't help feeling that such a position , though logically sound , would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied , and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin , Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist .
5 NICRA 's official history records that the association ‘ was slowly coming to realise that a ban on demonstrations was an effective Government weapon against political protest and that although letter writing to Stormont was a fine form of occupational therapy , it was unlikely to bring amy worthwhile results ’ .
6 Two year follow up of those who survived to leave hospital shows that while there is an increased mortality among the elderly this is entirely due to non-hepatic causes and that once survival is corrected for age there is no difference between the two cohorts , being of the order of 55% at one year and 50% at two years .
7 It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions .
8 [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ]
9 In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms .
10 This requires that when a record is added to the file it is stored in its home bucket if any record that is a synonym is at present in the home bucket , and that if space becomes available in a bucket , any synonym that randomizes to the bucket in which space is now available is moved into the home bucket .
11 The simple response to this is to recite the general principle that no treatment is warranted , or indeed lawful , without consent , and that if consent is withdrawn , nothing need be done .
12 They knew that palladium has a natural affinity for hydrogen and that if palladium is used as the cathode the hydrogen ions initially migrate into it ; as more and more hydrogen goes in so it gets under ever greater pressures .
13 She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash .
14 It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens .
15 I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had
16 And they together with who are animal feed stuff and and and corn and fertilizer people , erm organized the marquis and generally do the groundwork that gets the kids there .
17 But I mean , it could be er could be ver we 're talking about redundancies now , are n't we , so it , er , I think you know , I 'd like to move that we do do that , if the if there 's a seconder , and and and lobby very strongly .
18 And and and romanticism which is seen as the as the movement which replaces the enlightenment in a sense .
19 People sometimes think that capitalism means stock markets and and and and share holders and what have you .
20 It 's no problem , Malcolm 's has got compressed air and and and electricity laid on .
21 Er er bank clerks , this was the top half er shop keepers , erm and and and sort of the further you went to they , the better the people came because they were top half I mean I remember Tom Williams the professional golfer , he lived up there .
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