Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , their vast size , around 2,000 patients in many instances , together with their past custodial traditions , tended to produce a form of organization that was rigid and hierarchical and threatening to the patient . |
| 2 | These expressions , Ustachi or Chetnik , cover anything from guerrilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and Croats and Serbs to fight Tito , and armed and maintained by the Germans — to people who , either because they are Roman Catholics or Conservative in politics , or for whatever cause are out of sympathy with revolutionary Communism , and therefore labelled as Fascists or Nazis . |
| 3 | Then we come to the problem of sequencing which , one again , can be visual and auditory and connected with the hearing . |
| 4 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 5 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 6 | He became very gloomy and depressed and according to the girl it was only then that he interfered physically with her . |
| 7 | Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes . |
| 8 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 9 | Roads , railways , lakes , rivers , major settlements , chemical storage facilities and political boundaries can be displayed and used as overlays for the various modules that examine the impacts of chemical spills into the atmosphere and river systems . |
| 10 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 11 | After sorting out our bases we cut a couple of small gaps in the reeds to our left and right and put in the rests for the cat rods . |
| 12 | As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal . |
| 13 | For this , you don a neoprene suit , boots , flippers and life-jacket and take to the water in a specially adapted inflated lorry inner tube . |
| 14 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 15 | Do n't go about much ; no late returning in crowded streets from Earl 's Court or elsewhere ; no dissipating jabber and smoking and drinking with the Andrews [ where Helen was employed ] . |
| 16 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 17 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 18 | Mrs McNee said she had watched her children become disillusioned and despondent and feared for the long-term effects on their emotional as well as physical health . |
| 19 | The time specified on a let-down chart such as 1 , 2 or 3 minutes , etc , is in fact quite meaningless and dangerous unless associated with a specific distance and speed . |
| 20 | I was somewhat less impressed by Demidenko in the smaller-scale pieces : his Rejoice beloved Christians sounds slow and bland when compared to the super-human wizardry of Frederic Chiu on his stunning début recital of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi , ( — a ‘ must ’ for all Busonians ) whilst the slower chorales on the Hyperion disc are given the visionary touch on MK by Tatiana Nikolayeva . |
| 21 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 22 | Sitting in the pictures — getting dark and warm and watching with the music all the time playing from nowhere . |
| 23 | These three cases have to call into question the rights of parents , ignorant of the lives of the mentally handicapped in our society , and fearful and shocked by the discovery that they have a mentally handicapped child , to make decisions about the future of their handicapped children . |
| 24 | Must be handsome , intelligent and witty and looking for a fun-to-be-with female student . |
| 25 | And then the monster looked very hurt and sad and stared at the floor . |
| 26 | One of the most influential union documents was the TUC report produced after consultation with constituent unions and accepted and published by the Trades Union Congress in September 1979 . |
| 27 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 28 | They were waiting to pounce , I know it ; that 's how they live ; they hang about in the dark , watching ( such a creature will see in the dark , never fear ) and listening and feeling for the minuscule rise in temperature and small vibrations which signal a passing vascular system , then they hop on board and they … suck . |
| 29 | Eva was excited and perplexed and intimidated by the crowd . |
| 30 | ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another . |