Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Objectives , for example in the area of educational policy , are often multi-purpose and disagreements constantly arise as to what these objectives are or should be .
2 James I believed that ‘ Kings were breathing images of God upon earth ’ and he insisted on lecturing Parliament , so the relationship between King and Parliament steadily deteriorated and much of the political initiative began to pass from the House of Lords to the House of Commons .
3 Reinforce those opinions and attitudes already held where they still reflect what the company wants them to be , and thus protect the status quo .
4 The area of suggested centuriation lies well to the north of the town on Cliffe Marshes , and Nightingale even claimed that a plot measuring 2 by I actus ( =1 iugerum ) , which features on the 1840 tithe map and is still in the possession of a single owner , was a survivor of the Roman survey .
5 Serota was pleased that the public sector at least had the benefit of a system that ensured reasonable levels of pay ; no such system protected employees in the independent sector , while the pay and status of employees working for local authorities had increasingly been eroded , with the Director of Museums and Galleries often downgraded and answerable to a Director of Leisure Services .
6 Indeed the political theme for the day should be set at the morning 's press conferences , and local candidates and VIPs fully briefed and able to talk about or answer questions on that topic wherever they may be .
7 Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal .
8 ‘ Me and Sarah just feel that life is twice as sweet .
9 But the meetings and discussions also indicated that the British , after the defeat of the Axis , could find themselves exposed to American pressure over the future of the Empire , Imperial Preference and the Sterling Area .
10 In this author philosophy and fiction continuously interact and are , at most , only formally distinct .
11 These powers , which the reformers Ephialtes and Pericles tendentiously represented as ‘ usurped privileges ’ , were given to the council of 500 and to the People i.e. the Assembly and the law-courts .
12 The complete linkage of D15S12h and p thus suggested that D15S12h might be deleted in radiation-induced p -locus mutations , and Southern blot hybridization analysis demonstrated that all DNA fragments hybridizing to DN10 are deleted in the mouse mutations p r7FR6OLb , p 6H , p r46DFiOD , p 116G and p r25DVT ( Fig. 1 b ) .
13 Brown and Gilmartin also report that " Other anthropological techniques were completely ignored .
14 I think we said to you on Friday erm both me and Roger actually said that he he went into er he went in for the kill and he c he came out with slaughter
15 An injection was swiftly administered , and Sister correctly reported that the patient had become uncontrollable and needed sedation .
16 It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime .
17 Moire Rooney asked with a gentle smile , and Patrick immediately knew that she had been deliberately keeping Jane in the kitchen while Tom spoke his piece .
18 He and Macdonald also contend that as monozygous twin pairs show greater birthweight dissimilarity than dizygous twin pairs , this would tend to lead to disease discordance and underestimation of the genetic contribution .
19 Higher education , to many lecturers , is a matter of knowledge and skills consciously acquired and it eschews precisely those matters of thought , behaviour and belief which Lawton nominates .
20 The group 's report and accounts also show that the six executive directors are in line to pick up £1.46 million in share option gains by July .
21 In August the KKE had expressed support for the attempted coup against Soviet President Gorbachev , and Papariga now declared that the process of perestroika " which has been presented as the political restructuring of socialism , is in fact a most savage … restoration of capitalism " .
22 As had been the case during the Exclusion Crisis , Tories and Anglicans repeatedly argued that the Nonconformists were acting on popish principles in seeking to destroy both Church and State .
23 I 'll tell you what Honey and Munnford actually found and what their findings were , we 'll also think about some more practical applications that if people learn in different ways , what impact does this have on the trainers .
24 Dearlove ( 1973 , p. 20 ) , for example , observed that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea frequently ignored or resisted central government ‘ advice and direction ’ .
25 Also , in 1971–2 , US support for détente increased until , at Moscow , in May 1972 , Nixon and Brezhnev finally met and signed a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT ) limiting the number of inter-continental range missiles on each side .
26 This last qualification was not unimportant , and violence sometimes ensued when cattle thieves were caught in the act .
27 Alan and Maryon both felt that six weeks would probably be enough and did not think he could manage to continue on this diet for another three weeks .
28 A plaintiff is now obliged to serve with his statement of claim or file with his particulars of claim : ( a ) a medical report , substantiating all the personal injuries alleged in the statement of claim which the plaintiff proposes to adduce in evidence as part of his case at trial ; and ( b ) a statement of the special damages claimed , giving full particulars of the special damages for expenses and losses already incurred and an estimate of any future expenses and losses , including loss of earnings and pension rights .
29 Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted .
30 Pregnant women are generally advised to reduce their MHR by about 20–25 per cent — the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists cautiously recommends that pregnant women do n't exercise above 140bpm — so the Pacer could help you run sensibly during pregnancy .
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