Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison says the National Health Service is woefully underfunded and thinks many people would be prepared to pay extra income tax if the money went to health care . |
| 2 | A completely contrasting interpretation of history is represented by MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) work on the origins of English individualism , where he argues that the structure of kinship which prioritizes the nuclear family and de-emphasizes other kin has been characteristic of England at least since the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | The research project is under the guidance of Sun Labs boss Wayne Rosing and involves six staff engineers and a bunch of university students . |
| 4 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second , called Scrutiny , deals with the work of parliamentary committees . |
| 5 | For this simple reason : pornography shocks and disgusts decent people , but it does not tend to deprave and corrupt them . |
| 6 | It is 4,451 km long and crosses 150 km of perma-frost , 700km of swamp and over 500km of mountains . |
| 7 | Since April last year , the company , which designs , manufactures and installs telecom equipment , has achieved sales of £27m and has 500 staff . |
| 8 | SCO reported $160m of business in the year-end to September 30th and has 1,110 staff . |
| 9 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 10 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 11 | It is rather faster than a Commodore 64 , and has similar graphics and sound , which makes the hardware good value . |
| 12 | Intergraph Corp has wielded the axe half a dozen times since last August : 100 employees were laid off a couple of weeks ago — the company reported a $12.5m first quarter loss on revenues of $282m and has 7,000 staff worldwide . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most famous , Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care , is now in its fourth edition and has world-wide sales in excess of 28 million copies . |
| 14 | It offers 2,048Mb maximum RAM and has 1,600 MFLOPS and 12,800 MIPS . |
| 15 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
| 16 | Once LIFESPAN knows about its media types , available units and has some media items available for use ( ie. in State 2 ) , it is ready for the first Offline run . |
| 17 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 18 | Group in Falkirk and has considerable sales experience with other consumer goods . |
| 19 | A minicomputer can often carry out many of the tasks of a mainframe computer but is smaller and needs less staff . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's New York Impressionist and Modern Picture Sale Part I will be held on 10 November and contains outstanding works from the collections of two recently deceased Americans . |
| 21 | The UN reckons it will need to get 2.2m tonnes of food from outside this year , and wants another 1.6m for the rest of black Africa ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 22 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 23 | The system has 4×10 metre hinged columns , and uses 2 kw asymmetric floodlights . |
| 24 | [ 2 ] It also stores vast amounts of data about contributors , and uses this data to target fundraising campaigns . |
| 25 | The use of enriched isotopic mixtures of and allows such species to be identified as follows . |
| 26 | IT also allows greater devolution of decision-making to the lowest practical level and allows operational staff to take responsibility for ever-widening aspects of their total work : accessing information , planning , budgeting , delivery and quality control . |
| 27 | Presence of these substances in the blood presumably replaces any need for supercooling , and allows pelagic fish to hunt in the highly productive region immediately under the ice floes . |
| 28 | Over the past 12 years immigration policy developed by the Government has become more restrictive and hurts many people . |
| 29 | And happens some people have prepared particular presentations , you will see after one is on , and one of political insubordination , one on the process of learning together . |
| 30 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |