Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tasks which placed greater demands on interpretation and judgement resulted in lower success rates . |
| 2 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 3 | It was a period when the newly ( re ) found sense of idealism and hope led to great expectations of the rehabilitative force of prison and its alternatives . |
| 4 | Discussion on the schema on priestly life and ministry began on 13 October . |
| 5 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 6 | In the Middle East there was a tradition of religious pluralism and the new faiths of Judaism and Zoroastrianism and — later — Christianity and Islam coexisted in relative harmony ; in India during the seventeenth century , some Muslims and Hindus pooled their ideas and attempted to find a common vision : Sikhism was born of this attempt . |
| 7 | Spectra from a clean tungsten surface and from oxygen and hydrogen chemisorbed on that surface are shown in Fig. 2 . |
| 8 | We came here because our brother and sister went to this school . |
| 9 | ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other . |
| 10 | When he came to Noreen , Paddy stopped , and brother and sister stared at each other . |
| 11 | Limitations of time and money acted as major constraints in the design of my research . |
| 12 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 13 | KMnO 4 was then added up to 4 mM and incubation continued for 30 seconds at 37°C . |
| 14 | ‘ Many bishops in Latin America , Asia , and Africa , since the end of the Council , have exercised this prophetic role vigorously , denouncing political disappearances , torture , economic exploitation , and racism perpetrated by authoritarian regimes in their countries . ’ |
| 15 | Six months ' building work would be supervised by the seven nuns and funding came from worldwide donations . |
| 16 | The fear and revulsion felt by such parents has been well documented by the many parents who have initially wanted their child to die , and then gone on to bring up and care for their mentally handicapped child . |
| 17 | On every side images of love and violence erupted from glass-fronted posters advertising coming attractions . |
| 18 | The weather was still bitterly cold and snow fell on 28 December . |
| 19 | Grandma and Granddad slept in one bedroom ; Mother , Father and I in the other ; and my two great-uncles slept downstairs . |
| 20 | For two years , Clark , William Waldegrave at the Foreign Office and Nicholas Ridley at the Department of Trade and Industry wrangled in secret memos over the morality of turning a blind eye in exchange for information . |
| 21 | ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity . |
| 22 | Debate as to the relative merits of foot and horse continued for many centuries , and still exists in an attenuated form in the modern technological army . |
| 23 | Violence and disruption occurred during both rounds . |
| 24 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 25 | In political systems where decisive political leadership was not generated , such as Imperial Germany after the death of Bismarck , power and decision-making flowed towards public bureaucracies , with disastrous consequences . |
| 26 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 27 | The fictional morphology of this suffering is more aptly suggested by the novelist and critic Akhsharumov , writing the very year Crime and Punishment appeared in hard covers , who observes that Raskolnikov 's mental torment , which is his punishment in all but its public aspect , begins with his first promptings towards the crime . |
| 28 | Claps , admittedly quite reserved at first , from the audience , crackles from the sound system , and pop drank in large quantities . |
| 29 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 30 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |