Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Serum pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C were measured by sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays as described previously .
2 Plasma Pp concentrations were measured by a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay as described previously .
3 Whereas the Dover to Calais you can go any time between this time and that time and come back any time between this time and that time .
4 However , the Junkers , military , civil service and politicians chose to react to the Polish uprisings of 1830 , 1846 , 1848 , 1863 and 1905 — which took place in the Russian and Austrian sectors — by seeing , not a social and political movement that harked back to French revolutionary practice , and which aimed only in part at the restoration of the Polish state , but a Polish threat to Prussian and German identity .
5 Clean up your act While some dermatologists argue that you ca n't beat soap and water for cleansing , others claim that it 's too drying and recommend cleansing creams , milks and facial bars or washes instead .
6 He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal .
7 Land was given away and there were tax incentives to exploit the area , though increasingly it was large-ranching projects and multinational interests that took more and more land .
8 Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market .
9 Let us first , however , review some of the main themes of established class-based relations in urban and regional studies and establish how they might be improved by our new perspective .
10 Personally I ca n't help thinking that we might be better off waving goodbye to these Sacred Brides and Divine Mothers and starting over with women and mums .
11 It acknowledged the difficulties of the police in a terrorist campaign : complimented the RUC on its restraint and professional integrity and pointed out that the number of detectives who had resorted to physical violence appeared to be small in relation to the total force .
12 We can not see that power can be held in different ways , and that personal and professional relationships that work effectively are often a delicate balance see-sawing on power shifts .
13 He is still himself — still rather short and tubby , with a high forehead , and dry hair that turns upwards and back in the wind of his passage .
14 Thus ‘ etheric geography ’ opens up another possibility of interpreting the landscape in a more subtle and complete way than has usually been done .
15 The court can make such orders as are necessary to give effect to its determination and may also make such incidental and consequential orders as appear just ( s94(4) ( 5 ) ) .
16 Thus , for eurobond firms London has offered a pool of suitably trained labour ; in recent years , low levels of personal and corporate taxation ; a reasonable tax regime for financial instruments ( e.g. ability to issue bearer eurobonds that effectively pay interest gross and absence of turnover taxes — a particular handicap for the Swiss ) ; a supply of suitable premises ; the absence , since 1979 , of exchange controls ( although initially exchange controls were seen as an advantage , since eurobonds did not interfere with onshore sterling markets ) ; prudential and monetary regulations that have not historically tended significantly to raise the cost of funds , distort or prevent competition among domestic or international intermediaries ; English law ( widely accepted as a basis for international financial business ) ; the English language ; and political stability .
17 Very little is known about what triggers most animal viruses to follow either path ; indeed it seems possible that integration is a random and accidental process that does not occur at any specific sites on the chromosomes .
18 In other words , the proposals are framed in a political and social void which does not engage with the sorts of social , political and economic changes that have recently been experienced by all .
19 The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth .
20 Avoiding her eye , he scooped up portfolio , briefcase and half-empty mug and went out .
21 ( Three songs to vernacular texts in carol form , surviving in an early sixteenth-century volume of courtly and devotional songs and attributed just to ‘ Brown ’ , are probably by a different composer . )
22 As Chairman , I chair the Executive Committee Meetings , attend sub-committee meetings and working parties and work closely with all those involved in the Development Steering Group , who liaise with the Sports Council .
23 Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route .
24 They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion .
25 These are marked by lusty singing and strong rhythms and reflect very much the extrovert nature of the worshippers .
26 Their pottery is both beautiful and practical , bold rims to stop chipping and strong handles that do not break .
27 and some date and know when I 'm gon na be able to do it .
28 Elisabeth was hot ; she took off her raincoat , set down the knapsack containing her lunch and some books and sat down on the bench opposite a thicket of hazel , through which a path had been cut .
29 Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions .
30 Tara , with his lumberjack shirt and messy hair than hangs irritatingly over his right eye ; Paul with his pudding bowl cut and lightly flared jeans ( their sole acknowledgement of prevailing fashion trends ) and Phil with his goofy grin and ramshackle cut .
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