Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His stepbrother , half-scandalized and wholly impressed by Herbert 's levity , never forgot the episode . |
| 2 | Now the fantasy involved in inhabiting the bodies of animals , previously alluded to , and skilfully exploited by writers like Kafka , certainly extends to a curiosity over what animals might be said to see , hear , smell , or otherwise sense . |
| 3 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 4 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 5 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |
| 6 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 8 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 9 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , head of the presidential think-tank , and widely believed to be the architect of the Big Bonus , was unavailable for comment , although he is scheduled to make an appearance at a film festival in Tampa , Florida , where he will give a lecture on the Sisyphean influence of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner on contemporary American culture . |
| 10 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 11 | The drug , sulphadimidine , a prescription antibiotic used to control epidemics of respiratory disease in closely packed pig units , has been heavily and widely misused by UK farmers . |
| 12 | Although the breath H 2 test is sensitive and non-invasive and widely applied for the study of carbohydrate malabsorption , there are certain problems in the interpretation of its results . |
| 13 | These principles were readily accepted and widely implemented in new developments from the 1960s onwards . |
| 14 | The technique of introducing a steam re-heat cycle ( in which steam is extracted from the turbine at an intermediate stage , raised to a higher temperature and reintroduced into the lower pressure stage ) had been pioneered in Britain by consultants and widely adopted in America . |
| 15 | It provided a discordant note , for example , in the Pop Art exhibition organised by Norman Rosenthal for the Royal Academy and widely seen in other countries . |
| 16 | However , the five committed themselves to remaining within the party , Charles , a former deputy leader of the JLP and widely acknowledged to be the leader of the dissident group , in effect mounting a leadership challenge . |
| 17 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 18 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 19 | Ever since , it has remained a popular favourite — surely the most popular of all major orchestral work by a native Englishman , and widely regarded as the very essence of the spirit of England . |
| 20 | Only in modern times , since the power of ruling groups was explicitly and widely challenged in the name of democracy , and later of social democracy , has the question of the nature and basis of the state become a matter of acute controversy , giving rise to the two antithetical conceptions which I have indicated . |
| 21 | Indeed , the Camilla tape lay dormant in British newsrooms for months until it was published overseas and widely circulated in Britain . |
| 22 | It may well be a ‘ parody ’ : the eight songs attributable to Bedyngham are between them supplied with no fewer than twenty-six different texts in four languages ; three remain doubtful as to their form , but two are ballades and three rondeaux , forms well known and widely practised in England at the time . |
| 23 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 24 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
| 25 | It seems remarkable that nearly thirty years has elapsed since there was a major museum exhibition in the United States , although Magritte 's work has been familiar to , and widely admired by , the generation of American Pop artists . |
| 26 | Similar movements have appeared elsewhere in North Africa : for example , the Tendance Islamique in Tunisia , the Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) in Algeria and the Green Revolution in Libya , which is now virtually the official programme of the Qaddafi regime and widely identified with the Colonel personally . |
| 27 | Intelligent , beautiful , and widely read in four languages , she cultivated men of ‘ unquestionable genius ’ like Sir Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli [ qq.v. ] , whom she compared with Burns : his ‘ Lament for Maria ’ ( 1809 ? ) was probably written in response to her death . |
| 28 | Hunapipi represents the Earth Mother and the cult is probably the most important and widely spread of any in northern Australia . |
| 29 | Another trial carried out in New Zealand , and widely quoted in the medical literature , apparently failed to find any link between the mother 's diet and colic in breast-fed babies . |
| 30 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |