Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constitutional amendments of April 7 , 1989 , created a new bicameral National Assembly , comprising as its lower house the 460-seat Sejm ( the former unicameral legislature ) and as its upper house a new 100-seat Senate . |
| 2 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 3 | Lucy read , and between her sudden fascination for the floor tiles , edge of the table cloth , light thru' the wine glasses , Jay shot glances at Lucy , delirious at how small her hands were , how the rings she wore seemed to hold those tiny fingers together , how she longed to touch , kiss and suck those hands , nuzzle the inside of Lucy 's wrists . |
| 4 | There were a couple of trees on the pavement and between them one or two cars were parked . |
| 5 | And between them both , you can , you could I mean you take a ten thousand pound out with a mortgage , mortgage , and you could end up paying what , twenty thousand , twenty four thousand back . |
| 6 | The joint communiqué with which the visit concluded welcomed the normalisation of relations between the two countries , and between their two ruling parties . |
| 7 | Confounding variables which may have affected urinary albumin excretion were similar within and between our two groups — that is , glycaemic control , weight , and protein intake ( as reflected by urinary urea excretion ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Then she told me all her hopes and fears and about her First Experience — I 'll say no more than that — but she remembered it vividly . |
| 9 | Debbie , the teenage daughter of the writer Henry , talks with her father about his work and about her own life . |
| 10 | She became worried about the appearance of the place , about her cooking , and about her anomalous position in the household . |
| 11 | We come finally to a statement which is controversial , and about which much of this chapter has been concerned : ( vii ) Stylistic choice is limited to those aspects of linguistic choice which concern alternative ways of rendering the same subject matter . |
| 12 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 13 | It should agree with the management team what information about the company they may disclose to potential backers ; and about their future conduct and voting at board meetings . |
| 14 | Again , Kathleen talked to the visitors about our penguins , how they were hatched and hand-reared here and about their award-winning enclosure . |
| 15 | Traditionally parents have tried to keep a lot of information about life and about their own affairs from their children . |
| 16 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 17 | During the interview , mothers and fathers were also asked to confirm their own names and dates of birth and about their own health and habits . |
| 18 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 19 | Despite many years ' experience of child care and family case work there is still a lively debate about the causes and extent of family failure and about what further measures should be taken to reduce it . |
| 20 | Josselin was schoolmaster of Earls Colne from 1650 to 1658 and we learn about education and about his own reading habits , as well as his theories and even his dreams . |
| 21 | His sister Pat is convinced that he thoroughly enjoyed Gentle Jack despite all the things said about it and about his own performance . |
| 22 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 23 | We started talking about poetry and about our favourite modern poets . |
| 24 | Longer term financial and quality improvements were to follow major station redevelopment schemes , including profitproducing office and retail elements , of which the redevelopment of Liverpool Street and for which new plans were announced in 1986 is a good example . |
| 25 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 26 | The latter is particularly vulnerable to delays in deliveries for items which are used continuously , and for which minimum buffer stocks are held . |
| 27 | Sir : Young lawyers , like myself , will have received a circular letter from P. G. Malone enclosing a very laudable programme o events and lectures which his Committee has organised , and for which all credit is due . |
| 28 | Compare the benefits of random and access frequency loading in a file that is 93 per cent packed , fourteen records to a bucket , and for which 21 per cent of the records account for 82 per cent of the accesses . |
| 29 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 30 | Another pictorial ‘ must ’ which my agent missed was the exciting monoline , which now serves the city , and for which several new stations have been erected in the past couple of years . |