Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It would seem that it may be the sober and exciting reality that in truth it was never otherwise .
2 A further issue raised in these comparisons is that the A-level points scores of students entering universities is on average considerably higher than that of students entering polytechnics ; Boumer and Hamed report that in 1983 the average A-level scores for CNM graduates was 5.4 while for university graduates it was 9.5 .
3 The children , on the other hand , were the focus of much anxious attention — often of an intrusive and insistent kind that in itself became a kind of professional abuse .
4 Yet it was a strange and contradictory fact that on those grim days when even the May blossom and the busy life of all the creatures around the Park could not shake off the ever present fact of the bars and cages of the Zoo and the imprisoned animals , Mr Wolski found silent comfort in the presence of the remaining golden eagle .
5 But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible .
6 For example , Gage ( 1989 ) has discussed some of the medical applications that have resulted from this type of work , notably the production of interferon which is a potential anti-viral and anti-cancer agent that until recently was only available in very small quantities by extracting it directly from human cells .
7 Ridd ( 1973 ) showed from evidence obtained by surface mapping and shallow drilling that in the Poxwell anticline in Dorset the surface structure was offset to the north by accommodation in the incompetent Upper Jurassic clays ; this may apply to other examples .
8 It also submerges the quaint and old-fashioned idea that in the end happiness comes not from cars , colour televisions and consumables but from within ourselves . ’
9 But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair .
10 From these beginnings developed the startling and revolutionary notion that in residential areas traffic and people should not be segregated but instead should be integrated .
11 Sewage treatment is expensive , and federal grants that in the 1970s helped to build the nation 's treatment networks are drying up , the victims of Reaganomics .
12 In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation .
13 The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things .
14 The models of Fudenberg and Levine and Benabou and Laroque show that in games with imperfect monitoring the process of reputation building and destruction is considerably smoother than in games without such noise .
15 So rapid had been the settlement and subsequent expansion that by the outbreak of the first world war few suitable sites remained to attract new industry .
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