Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] considerable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point and I have considerable sympathy with what he says about that . |
| 2 | Another large scale landscape pattern which John Michell has drawn attention to and which has considerable credence is the Circle of Perpetual Choirs , mentioned in the Welsh Treads as being located at Stonehenge , Glastonbury and Llantwit Major . |
| 3 | Effective exchange of information is essential , and we devote considerable efforts to that . |
| 4 | It may be argued that a more ‘ root and branch ’ approach has to be adopted , and we have considerable sympathy with this view ( see Lecture 1 ) . |
| 5 | They attempted to demonstrate how the Spanish influence was absorbed into the Andean vision of the world and they achieved considerable success . |
| 6 | But they were young , and they had considerable wit . |
| 7 | The Belfast and general Hiberno-English system seems to display a situation similar to EModE , and they cast considerable doubt on the principle of irreversibility of merger . |
| 8 | Alec himself was always interested in our ideas and in the development of art in the schools and he had considerable skill in persuading the Education Committee to agree to many of our plans which today would doubtless be rejected as not being cost effective or economically viable . |
| 9 | Sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof , and he had considerable confidence in his own ingenuity . |
| 10 | He met frequently with the Congressional leaders of both parties ; and he made considerable use of the telephone in seeking the votes of rank-and-file members while also inviting them to the White House in groups . |
| 11 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 12 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 13 | But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal . |
| 14 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 15 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |