Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only two things that Chelmsford and Backnong have in common are our industry base ( we have Macronis in Chelmsford , Backnong has a similar electronic industry based in the town ) and the fact that they , as we do , have a river running through their town centre . |
| 2 | What do Durex , Valium , and Cornflakes have in common with electricity and coal ? |
| 3 | In technique and effect , relaxation therapy , hypnosis and autohypnosis , autogenic training and meditation appear to be very similar . |
| 4 | Still , higher education contains within itself , if only it would realize , an essential rationality : academics , students and disciplines have to be rational . |
| 5 | The Guest Speaker was KBE , Chairman of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and Chairman Designate of Scottish Natural Heritage . |
| 6 | As she added : ‘ He was a genius and geniuses tend to be kind of childlike . |
| 7 | Kirsty could convince any kid that goblins and fairies reside in the bottom of the garden , no problem . |
| 8 | So skilled an illustrator was Rackham , that the reader begins to believe that trees have faces , mermaids gather shells beneath the sea and fairies fly through Kensington Gardens . |
| 9 | As the last extracts indicate , schools and teaching exist in a social framework . |
| 10 | Rather , it is to indicate that in this particular instance , underfunding is an accurate reflection of the second-class status that computer-assisted humanities research and teaching have in this country . |
| 11 | Both of these ebullient works testify to the natural world as a paradise : a fact emphasised by the accuracy of the painter , whose easily identifiable plants and birds derive from different seasons and regions and could never have co-existed in reality . |
| 12 | But as mid-day approaches , it becomes so hot that the lizards and birds retreat into the shade wherever they can find it . |
| 13 | Water gardening is unlike any other kind of gardening , for when planting a pool the gardener is creating a whole new underwater world in which plants , fish and snails depend upon one another to provide the basic requirements necessary for their continued existence . |
| 14 | To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place . |
| 15 | The root of economic oppression , in the libertarian view , lies not in a given level of the productive forces , but in the ‘ relations of production ’ , in the way in which individuals and groups relate to one another in the process of producing wealth . |
| 16 | Civil society is at the centre of this web of inter-relationships , comprising : the sphere of circulation , in which people and groups contest in the ‘ market place ’ ; the sphere of reproduction , in which social groups — classes-in-struggle compete to promote their economic , biological and political reproduction ; and the popular democratic forces , through which much of the struggle within civil society is organised . |
| 17 | These religions and groups stand in direct opposition to ‘ the gospel of the grace of God . ’ |
| 18 | Institutions and groups compete for power and there is , consequently , a plurality of power centres rather than a concentration of power . |
| 19 | Hotels and houses nestle among the vegetation . |
| 20 | The full benefits of price stability and statutory independence for the European central bank , and indeed for the Bank of England — that must be a necessary institutional corollary — will be enjoyed only if a future Government and Parliament agree in good time to adopt a single European currency . |
| 21 | Thus , just as earlier adulthood and middle age , or middle years and later ones , merge gradually into each other , so sexual outlooks and attitudes grade from those which are held by middle-aged people downwards into those of the younger age groups . |
| 22 | and of course both Oxford and Swindon go into the cup draw at the weekend for round three … while we 're going into our action round up |
| 23 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 24 | The IIC provides an independent forum for debate on communications issues and evaluates the influence which governments , economics , politics and cultures have on the use of communications globally . |
| 25 | Coins of all periods and cultures behave in similar ways as economic objects , and we can therefore apply the same methods of economic study to all of them . |
| 26 | SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS BOARD v. PANTELL S.A. AND OTHERS ( NO. 2 ) |
| 27 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
| 28 | The International Organisation of Securities Commissions is to give its seal of approval to international standards on auditing ( ISAs ) at a conference to be hosted by the Securities and Investments Board in London later this month . |
| 29 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 30 | On the other hand , when adjectives and adverbs appear in clusters , they can produce a necessary ritardando . |