Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TV is a post-war medium — and commercial TV is less than 40 years old in Europe — while cinema advertising required the stimulus of TV to bring it alive . |
| 2 | And on a Saturday with Jenny going in if there 's any overtime you and old what's-a-name was there and he came and tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 3 | Features such as kerning , tracking , inter-letter and inter-word spacing control , ligatures and hung punctuation are all but unknown in page makeup yet no typographer would be without them . |
| 4 | The Parliamentary Assembly and the Economic and Social Committee were primarily or wholly advisory in nature , with very little checking power , while the Court of Justice could interpret the provisions of the treaty and the decisions of the EEC . |
| 5 | Much , though not all , of the Earth 's tectonic , volcanic and seismic activity is directly or indirectly associated with movement between neighbouring plates . |
| 6 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 7 | For over three-quarters of the sample group ( 61 per cent of females and 81 per cent of males ) , the time lag between the first experimentation with heroin and second use was less than one month . |
| 8 | If American and American woman were fully and automatically equivalent , the message of this advertisement would be superfluous . |
| 9 | The axiom underlying the contention is the far from unexceptional one that in the long-term wealth , power and moral and intellectual superiority are closely and positively linked together in the maintenance of stable elites . |