Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dearlove ( 1973 , p. 20 ) , for example , observed that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea frequently ignored or resisted central government ‘ advice and direction ’ . |
| 2 | Also , in 1971–2 , US support for détente increased until , at Moscow , in May 1972 , Nixon and Brezhnev finally met and signed a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT ) limiting the number of inter-continental range missiles on each side . |
| 3 | Branches and limbs and hair and eyes all jumbled and mixed , so that you could not tell where the Tree part ended and the naiad part began . |
| 4 | They were walking along a smallish road to the left of the extraordinary green-and-white-striped cathedral and David suddenly stopped and put both hands on Julia 's shoulders . |
| 5 | The Count and Countess both looked and sounded good , though Stephen Page 's portrayal of a habitual seducer was less than convincing . |
| 6 | With instruments and voices carefully mixed and contrasted , the overall programme is richly varied . |
| 7 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 8 | Inevitably this led to confusion as to where the centre of power and decision-making really lay and seemed to preclude the maintenance of a coherent policy . |
| 9 | 10.7.10 The rights and licences hereby granted or agreed to be granted to a Non-academic Party pursuant to Clauses 10.7.2 b to 10.7.6 shall be exercisable on identical terms by any Related company of that Party for so long as it remains such , subject to the obtaining from such companies of suitable undertakings as to confidence and delivery up . |
| 10 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 11 | John and I rebelled at this kind of regimentation but Andrew and Ernest just smiled and said nothing . |
| 12 | He returned shortly with the two drinks , and Isobel calmly sat and sipped the milk , a secretive smile on her beautiful face . |
| 13 | Are the spine and boards badly scuffed or rubbed ? ( the euphemistically-minded cataloguer may say ‘ chafed ’ , the French , more elegantly , ‘ tired ’ ) . |
| 14 | Andy Harris 's set has the monumental angels from a graveyard standing alongside the benches in the workshop where young Phil and Spanky once blustered and bullied , inflicting and suffering pain . |
| 15 | Serrano was widely regarded as the architect of the unification of political parties in 1937 which gave the Franco regime its political and ideological framework , and Franco regularly sought and accepted Serrano 's judgement when making high-level political appointments . |
| 16 | I know that she spent a lot of time writing alone in her room ; and when Anne was at home , she and Emily often talked and wrote about the world of Gondal together . |
| 17 | Opportunities are to be maximised and threats either avoided or turned into opportunities ( see Sharplin , 1985 , pp. 54 6 , 190–4. where it is referred to as WOTS-UP analysis ) . |
| 18 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 19 | Nick Evans records that ‘ Toys and Games again expanded and increased , helped by a new , spacious location at the entrance to the Undercroft . |
| 20 | The pervasive belief in the natural , biological difference between male and female characteristics formed a framework within which feminists and non-feminists alike thought and lived . |
| 21 | Several roads ran through it , and motorists often stopped and picnicked there . |
| 22 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |
| 23 | Because of the length of a trip , canal boatmen began to live on their boats and by the 1820s their wives and children sometimes lived and worked alongside them . |
| 24 | Later John Smith made Messrs Lamont and Major visibly squirm and reduced the Tory back-benchers to silence when he read out quote after quote from the Conservatives pledging not to extend VAT . |
| 25 | Initially , the area improved under township schemes in Lewis and Harris greatly exceeded that improved individually , but in the last few years there have been hardly any new township schemes . |
| 26 | And George just sat and watched . |
| 27 | Maud and Roland neither looked nor spoke to each other . |
| 28 | It then takes over the responsibility for verifying the design activity against activities and components already undertaken and designed . |
| 29 | He merely looked her up and down from her booted feet to her windblown hair , then returned his attention to the stove , and Hilary almost turned and went out again . |
| 30 | I did n't attend the dinner , for which in a way I 'm now sorry , and Pound never forgot or forgave . |