Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One type adopts and aspires to dominant middle class values and priorities . |
| 2 | A casualty officer there reported seeing ‘ quite a few ’ patients suffering from bites and stings in recent days . |
| 3 | This pattern has continued , with the three main activities absorbing 66 per cent of all loans and grants between 1971 and 1980 ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 4 | In supporting the Federal Government 's public policy objectives , KfW extended long-term loans and grants worth 27.8 billion Deutsche Marks in the year under review , which means a 25% increase . |
| 5 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 6 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 7 | Unfortunately , you no longer get tax relief on home improvements ( nor on the extended part of a mortgage used for home improvements ) , and grants from local councils have also been cut back quite dramatically . |
| 8 | This contribution reached a peak of around two-thirds of the combined income from rates and grants in 1976 . |
| 9 | Not only is it the largest in the world in volume ( $11 billion in loans and grants in 1991 ) , but its untied ratio ( 79.7% in 1991 ) is the highest in the world . |
| 10 | It is also true that British companies got more than 76% of the contracts stemming from official British loans and grants in 1989 . |
| 11 | On Thursday and Friday nights and Sunday lunchtimes you can enjoy Malaysian or Indonesian curries , perhaps a Cambodian-style casserole of sweet potatoes , pumpkins and yams with fresh coriander , or the very popular macrobiotic platter , an assortment of tastes sometimes including arame , one of 10 different sea vegetables they prepare . |
| 12 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 13 | As with teaching and journalism , so with literature : he developed his small talent to the full , writing short stories , poems , and plays in Irish and English , which ranged from the mawkish to the genuinely moving . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 16 | TRANSAID has helped SCF to secure an aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to famine-stricken areas of Somalia , where continued fighting and looting make overland travel dangerous . |
| 17 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 18 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 19 | Despite Edward 's concern to obtain a wide measure of support for the war and consent for the financial exactions it necessitated , the measures the government took to raise money and supplies in 1338 and 1339 gave rise to grievances which resemble those which underlay the conflicts of Edward I 's last years . |
| 20 | In early September 1990 the government allowed United States troops and supplies in unarmed planes to overfly Austrian territory en route for the Gulf . |
| 21 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Agrees with so and so and agrees with this and agrees with that . |
| 24 | Agrees with so and so and agrees with this and agrees with that . |
| 25 | Aspirates were immediately treated with anticoagulant ( 9:1 v/v 10% EDTA ) and centrifuges at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 26 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 27 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 28 | GEOMETRY is the branch of mathematics , or more precisely the root , that derives from spatial intuition and insists upon visual expression of its theory . |
| 29 | Climb onto a platform and your weight sets the contraption in motion the deck rides up and down simulating ocean swells , the soundtrack plays the moans of whale songs , and a film projection shows an opening and closing hand that approaches and recedes in wavelike sequence on the now-rotating screens . |
| 30 | Only in corners where fast ice fails to break out each summer , or where pack accumulates and circulates in local gyres , do the floes last several years , and thicken both by pressure-rafting and by accretion . |