Example sentences of "in the [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 2 | I had already observed it in hotel saunas and swimming-pools in Germany , where men and women sat and swam together in the nude and thought nothing of it . |
| 3 | Much as we might like to , we ca n't turn the clock back on these fundamental changes , we have no choice but to proceed with all faith in the new and make it work . |
| 4 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |
| 5 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 6 | Bringing these out in the open and subjecting them to scrutiny and analysis will yield fruitful results . |
| 7 | With these paintings he established his lifetime habit of starting a work in the open and finishing it in his studio . |
| 8 | Kenneth Button and Michael Fleming of Loughborough University look at the history of regulatory reform on the practice of architecture in the eighties and assess its impact on fees , profit margins and jobs |
| 9 | The Canadian naturalist John Macoun explored the prairies in the 1850s and described them as ideal agricultural country . |
| 10 | ‘ Kevin Vose was 130th in the national and to beat him like that is a dream for me . |
| 11 | The travel agent admits he 's in the wrong and says he 's trying to ensure that Norman Culliford gets at least some of his money back . |