Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambassadors of Canada , France , the United States and Venezuela then successfully intervened and persuaded the coup leaders not to kill Aristide but to allow him to leave the country , in order to prevent widespread bloodshed . |
| 2 | The distinction between felonies and misdemeanours no longer exists but there seems no reason why the rule , if it is a rule at all , should not apply wherever B 's taking is criminal . |
| 3 | Granted that the whole of history may have a meaning , a purpose and a direction — and granted , too , the power and fruitfulness of many of Hegel 's ideas — are that purpose and direction so easily uncovered as he suggests ? |
| 4 | And Titleist once again rewarded that trust with more wins , more top finishes and more money earned than all other balls combined . |
| 5 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 6 | Environmental groups have warned that the forthcoming UNCED summit faces failure , with differences between North and South more clearly defined than ever . |
| 7 | Guy had heard that Miles had finally reached Gloucester on foot and practically dead from exhaustion , his weapons and armour long since abandoned so he could travel faster . |
| 8 | Materials and equipment less frequently used or too heavy for pupils to handle easily should be stored on upper shelves . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Scottish athletes and officials yesterday angrily rejected as ‘ useless ’ an offer by the Scottish Commonwealth Games Council to extend the time limit to achieve the qualifying standards for New Zealand . |
| 10 | Party structures were solidifying and governments more securely based and less at the mercy of House of Commons votes . |
| 11 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 12 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 13 | Participants in a five-year effort by the Carnegie Corporation to bring science and government closer together believe that they have improved that relationship somewhat and hold out the promise of even greater success . |
| 14 | He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies , because they both wanted to be first in the examination . |
| 15 | I have many reasons for visiting Van Diemens Land first — the climate is more like that of England and many of the Birds , I believe only pigeons may visit that island from the Continent , many are local species and others so nearly allied that [ only ] an inspection of them in a state of nature is possible to ascertain their being specifically different . |
| 16 | well in that case then I might as well have a tested one and be stingy with it , erm oh where 's sage and onion , oh here we are , sage and onion Right quickly go and find nanny again cos we seem to have lost |
| 17 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |