Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence . ’
2 Additionally , I work on CLA 's conservation policy for the landscape , wildlife and historic buildings and deal with water resources and fisheries .
3 And that is a terrible terrible thing that we 've all got to face , but I think we have to realize that we have the potential , we have the ability of saving the lives of fifty million children , and the world 's leaders at the conference , at the summit over the weekend , actually turned their minds for an instant , away from all those economic and political problems and focused on this , and I think that that was tremendously important .
4 Chapter 4 will consider a more detailed analysis of rational and political aspects and approaches in relation to the particular process of budgetary planning .
5 There are moral and political implications that follow on such a stance .
6 For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant .
7 If it goes ahead it 'll cover nearly three hundred and fifty acres and consist of thirty million tons of coal .
8 Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday .
9 Mr Hunt has replied as follows : ‘ Whilst I acknowledge that there is merit in the concept of a single , universal agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , there are many complex legal , resource and administrative matters that need to be properly and fully addressed before I could consider whether to proceed in this way .
10 Other clerical and administrative duties as required by the Acquisitions Librarian and the Chief Librarian .
11 It comes with program development , text processing , communications and administrative tools and runs on 80386 and 80486 AT-alikes with 1Mb memory — and up to 64Mb .
12 Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground .
13 Although countries like Mexico , Chile and Brazil have budding film industries , the products of which are now reaching the industrialised world , it is still North American and European films that predominate in the cinemas of Mexico City , Santiago and São Paulo .
14 This idea was put forward by Levy and Reid ( 1976 ; 1978 ) who employed tachistoscopic verbal and spatial tasks and found in 70 out of 73 subjects that the direction of presumed cerebral lateralisation was predicted by handedness and hand posture .
15 In a more localized example , a county planning department would need to consider a wide range of environmental , economic , political , social and spatial factors when deciding on a site for a public service utility such as a thermal electricity generating station .
16 Many prospective employers view French , German , Spanish or Russian as the most practical vocational skills although these are often only required for communication and conversational situations as opposed to fluency .
17 Another and perhaps even more striking example of the undesirability of the practice can be found in the case of Woolwich Equitable Building Society v. IRC where the finance Act 1985 had included sections enabling the Inland Revenue to make regulations for the payment by building societies of tax on ‘ such sums as may be determined in accordance with regulations ’ and went on to provide that any such regulations might contain ‘ such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Board to be appropriate ’ .
18 After that race his family remembers him coming home with badly bruised and torn feet and looking like a skeleton .
19 THE most reassuring explanation for the failure of liberal revolution in Spain is that political change was unaccompanied by those social and economic changes that give to political revolution its substance .
20 ‘ Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty .
21 So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures .
22 It included beggars homes , hostels for children and working girls and care for the elderly .
23 Their wings are the long and narrow ones that belong to the born gliders .
24 Any of these difficulties can be avoided by a few patient moments of study with the clear and concise instructions that come with the Diamond stunters .
25 And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system .
26 The members of UNTCOK met American and Korean officials and travelled throughout south Korea .
27 Roeg uses Mick Jagger as the rock star to confront the ambivalent images and grotesque fascinations that flared around The Rolling Stones when their '60s dream ended in death , despair and Altamont .
28 Moncef Triki is President of the Tunis office of the Association for the Defence of Human Rights and Public Liberties and worked with families of Islamic detainees investigating details of their arrest and detention .
29 Besides the statistics discussed above , there is a rich source of data available to sociologists among the many personal and public documents that exist in a literate and record-keeping society .
30 Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party , over the past hour or so , as she 'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo 's bubbly chatter , she 'd found herself slipping into a party mood .
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