Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
| 2 | Molly went on laying the table , placing knives and forks neatly as though her sanity depended on it . |
| 3 | Clients tend to book long haul holidays and cruises rather than two weeks in the Spanish sun . |
| 4 | Speech and communal peace represent life and unity just as eating and individual desire represent death and division . |
| 5 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 6 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 7 | Over such a period the continual loss of blood from small persisting burdens of several hundred worms are sufficient to produce clinical signs associated primarily with loss of weight , weakness and inappetence rather than marked anaemia . |
| 8 | Credit , the debt level , presses on everyone and causes people to save and struggle rather than spend . |
| 9 | If the water did enter a person 's house they were usually able to move all of the furniture and possessions upstairs where they would keep safe and dry , but this was not possible for all the residents . |
| 10 | Two years later to Somerset where I learnt that the great advantage of being an in-house solicitor is that you can help your clients , the social workers , planners , and teachers to get their procedures and attitudes right before cases come to court or committee . |
| 11 | ‘ In any case , I believe the players play for the honour and glory rather than the money . ’ |
| 12 | Worthwhile marketing is n't a ‘ hit and run ’ activity but needs sustained effort , it 's not necessarily expensive as it 's more to do with attitude and ingenuity rather than resources . |
| 13 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 14 | The emphasis is now on technical specialization and expertise rather than democratic control . |
| 15 | The role of the organiser is vital in providing careful preparation and support so as to ensure that identifiable outcomes result from the placement . |
| 16 | The abolition of examinations , shortening the length of courses and open criticism of teachers and academic knowledge , among other features of the Cultural Revolution period , led to disruption and chaos rather than Mao 's goal of an egalitarian higher education system . |
| 17 | Organizations need to be able to attribute credit and responsibility just as historians do . |
| 18 | The expansion of settlement soon became based on a hollow frontier as settlement moved west leaving a trail of erosion and siltation behind until by 1939 , Charles Kellogg felt that 75 million acres ( 28 million hectares ) of this [ ( 450–500 million acres/180–200 million hectares of eroded land ) ] were too worn out to return a living wage under any system of farm practices . |
| 19 | Atholl brose honey whiskey oatmeal double cream Heat honey and whisky together until just blended . |
| 20 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 21 | This category was now proving vital to Bolshevik organization in the Roslavl' uezd , even if much of its work was more like security and espionage rather than positive encouragement to the peasantry to collaborate with the party . |
| 22 | Together they pulled off a crime which cost their company 's banks and creditors more than eight million pounds . |
| 23 | The new Board consisted of members with knowledge and experience rather than representatives of particular interests . |
| 24 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 25 | And we 're we 're well erm getting a whole of trees planted and field there cos her field is hardly ever used and we gon na be getting a whole lot of trees for that . |
| 26 | Throughout February and March more than 200 sponsored swims will be taking place across the country in aid of Greenpeace . |
| 27 | Witch Hazels are the harbingers of spring , their narrow strap shaped petals bursting from globular buds in February and March long before the leaves have begun to stir . |
| 28 | We are witnessing the birth of a civilization which nurtures ideas and creativity precisely because it is so rich in diversity . |
| 29 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 30 | The fees , based on time and difficulty rather than on salary level , have been kept competitive ; the firm 's offices , first in High Holborn , then in New Cavendish Street , then in Harley Street and back to new Cavendish Street again , are presentable and functional rather than opulent or ‘ space age ’ . |