Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice . |
| 2 | In fact , I go further than this and argue that if there is to be public criteria , there must be other selves . |
| 3 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
| 4 | He was not responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries , which was handled by Thomas Cromwell , though he heartily approved of this and hoped that the revenues would be used for education , and in particular for education of the new clergy . |
| 5 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 6 | you know , if the help and safety executive had done this , this and insured that this was right and that was right |
| 7 | I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker . |
| 8 | Most appreciated this and said that , provided the timing and subject of the course were right , they could fit in a 6 hour course . |
| 9 | He was delighted with this and said that he would send his advisers to see me — on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | She smiled at this and said if I wanted a change I could knit up navy blue wool for the Royal Navy , which I did . |
| 11 | It 's so nice and easy to say we oversimplify , and there are all these examples that disprove this and disprove that — all these nice men , all these women with great careers — is n't it ? |
| 12 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 13 | Nuadu glanced at this and saw that there might once have been verdant greenery , perhaps even a small forest . |
| 14 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |
| 15 | Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution . |
| 16 | After examining their specific areas , the working groups will help prepare initial discussion papers for wider public consultation , will consider the results of this and develop where necessary more specific proposals on which the DTI will issue a further consultation paper . |
| 17 | The nuclear shell model does just this and assumes that the individual neutrons and protons move in an average spherical or deformed ( spheroidal ) potential field . |
| 18 | Mr. McGregor recognised the force of this and accepted that , had not statute intervened , the judges would have been likely to extend the English law of negligence to accommodate the requirements of justice . |
| 19 | ‘ Could you zip through this and see if it 's OK ? |
| 20 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 21 | I want you to write the exercise and now try this and see if you can do it . |
| 22 | The re , the rest , the rest of you look at this and see if he 's right . |
| 23 | Oh mum can we open this and see if we 've won ? |
| 24 | The House of Lords rejected this and held that the Minister was entitled to decide what was meant by ‘ excessive ’ and what principles to apply . |
| 25 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 26 | In view of our discussion above I would like to qualify this and to suggest that there can be a degree of psychological hurt , however fleeting , inherent in the experience . |
| 27 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to write to you again about this and to suggest that you come and assess the situation on site with a view to arranging for a footway to be constructed . |
| 28 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 29 | Charles Frank looked into this and showed that the pion decay interpretation was correct , but it was in answering that question that Frank had his brainwave and stimulated a whole new field of research . |
| 30 | Vesman developed this and showed that he could explain the temperature dependence of muon + dd fusion if there is a rather loosely bound state in a complex molecular system involving three deuterons where the nuclei were encircled partly by electrons and partly by muons . |