Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their talks Gayoom and Shekhar agreed to review and upgrade the 1981 India-Maldives trade agreement . |
| 2 | The Cabinet also agreed to reduce cash allocations and other benefits to new immigrants , to reduce child allowances and to implement a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries except Defence . |
| 3 | He heard the dialling tone and stabbed the 9 button three times . |
| 4 | I personally know of a foreign company planning to establish a factory and recruit a thousand staff in Britain . |
| 5 | Turn work again and repeat the two rows continuously . |
| 6 | On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses . |
| 7 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 8 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 9 | GEC Alsthom , the Anglo-French turbo-generator manufacturer , has signed a £140m contract to design and build a 350 megawatt , combined cycle gas-fired power station near Sousse in Tunisia . |
| 10 | When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered . |
| 11 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 12 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 13 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 14 | Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones . |
| 15 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 16 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 17 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 18 | We had tea with him and his wife and met the three other new boys and their parents : Harry Phillimore , small , dark-haired and bespectacled ; Ronnie Chance , slim , blond and diffident ; and Desmond Parsons , a tall , good-looking boy . |
| 19 | And we 've increased the old British League by four , and equalled the two Leagues out , so we should see erm quite some interesting speedway this year . |
| 20 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 21 | On Sunday , July 12 , 1987 , the gang went to the Deposit Centre in Brompton Road , central London , and emptied the 121 boxes which contained jewellery , gold , cash and cocaine . |
| 22 | Then , in November 1978 , Ford , battered by a lengthy stoppage by 57,000 workers , rebelled and agreed a 17 per cent deal . |
| 23 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 24 | ‘ And it starts right here , ’ Lucy said , looking at the makeup mirror and seeing the two of them fixed and framed in its unforgiving light . |
| 25 | A , the judge did not explain the use of seven as a multiplier but it not suggested that such a calculation could be done with complete accuracy and using a five percent table , the judge was faced with choosing between seven and eight . |
| 26 | With n set to 12 and using a 1097 word dictionary , the word hypothesizer typically finds two correct words bottom-up . |
| 27 | Sun is chuckling over a recent robbery in Silicon Valley : seems the thieves broke into a place and ripped off five Sun workstation , bypassing the new HP 700s and using a 705 as a door stop . |
| 28 | They 'll be storing hundreds of vehicles at the site and using the 700 acres for military exercise . |
| 29 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 30 | The student has identified and highlighted the three major aspects of the topic on which he is likely to be questioned . |