Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The supply of money is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and is not influenced by changes in national income or in interest rates .
2 This comes in dried and liquid forms and is basically reduced-fat cow 's milk with added vitamin D and iron — the two essentials missing from full cow 's milk .
3 The following chapter considers the various policies which have been proposed to deal with regional imbalances and is then followed by a study of inner cities .
4 Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown .
5 The hon. Gentleman is being neither reasonable nor fair to the management or work force in British mines and is not taking account of the pain and suffering through which some of them had to go to achieve that improvement .
6 As well as this lovely , uncompromising Romanesque church , the Quartier Sainte-Croix has some good old houses and is easily the pleasantest part of Oloron to walk in .
7 ‘ It was hard at first getting into the routine of doing a set programme , especially the 6am run , which started off at 30 minutes and is now at 50 .
8 Single parent Keith , from Stockport , was unconscious for 30 minutes and is now undergoing tests .
9 According to a report by George Chree , Kincardine 's director of planning , a third of the route near Aberdeen runs along public roads and is still in use .
10 Indeed , the refurbishment of the 220 building results from AEA 's commercial considerations and is not necessitated by Ministry of Defence contracts .
11 This infill bears few craters , and only a few craters have been partially obscured , indicating that the whole Caloris basin since its creation has suffered few impacts and is therefore comparatively recent .
12 He 's already had a handful of World Cup qualifying ties in two or three different countries and is off to another one next week .
13 However , a machine can only stretch in a few directions and is therefore only of limited value .
14 Professor Eloff ( Northern Transvaal ) is representing Dr Danie Craven , who has run South African rugby for more than 30 years and is about to stand down on grouds of age and health .
15 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
16 His proud mother , Rita Coyne , said : ‘ He has struggled for two and a half years and is now determined to live life to the full . ’
17 It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) .
18 It is important that this works well for records to ensure retrieval across media and different sources and is not derived from data management methodologies alone .
19 Don Charlwood survived 30 ops and is well qualified to bring their stories together .
20 Central South has two of the best circuits and most of the best drivers … our guide to the track is Gary Chapman from Chinnor … he races for the Shenington Club in Oxfordshire … has won three British Championships and is currently leading the race for this year 's crown …
21 At least in Marx 's usage , ideology is a part of the structure of social relations and is not overcome by an individual who adopts a materialist account of history .
22 The latter effect is intimately linked with solar magnetic reversals and is therefore worthy of our attention ; it will be detectable palaeomagnetically but lost in the usual low-order spherical harmonic analysis .
23 Willie Jarvis 's three-year-old has won his last two races by a total of six and a half lengths and is still well weighted for further success .
24 But the sexual division of labour — whether it is the male , the female , or both parents who look after the young — is controlled by much the same forces as control other sexual differences and is therefore appropriately treated in this chapter .
25 Mr Sangster 's filly Musicale overcame several obstacles to retain her unbeaten record in yesterday 's Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes and is now a best-priced 6–1 favourite for the 1,000 Guineas on April 30 , although Coral 's reacted extremely cautiously by offering just 3–1 .
26 The method is , however , very dependent upon carefully prepared specimens and is very much a laboratory tool .
27 Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica .
28 Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall .
29 It has a short half-life of five to 10 minutes and is normally degraded locally by lymphocytes ; if excess interleukin-2 reaches the bloodstream , however , it is rapidly cleared from the body by the kidneys .
30 Other economic achievements of the late eighteenth century were the draining of the marshes in the old lake bed of the Ljubljansko Barje — work which had been started in Roman times and is still not completed — the introduction of maize and potatoes into the crop rotation , the expansion of viticulture and the development of the textile industry .
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