Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In other schools , committees continued to meet and enthusiastic individuals and groups pursued such issues as study skills programmes and the integration of the library and learning resources units as natural consequences of project involvement . |
| 2 | It is impossible to know how far Lothar 's own personal interests and inclinations determined general policy , but the proceedings of the great general council of the Lateran which was to be held near the end of the pontificate were well in line with what he and others had absorbed on pastoral care at Paris in the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 3 | In fact , if deposits and notes and coin fall by an equal amount , then notes and coin will shrink as a proportion of total assets because notes and coin formed such a small proportion of assets to begin with . |
| 4 | All would be committed to common goals and values , but they would ‘ know their place ’ and accept the ration of power and advantage deemed suitable for their social position . |
| 5 | Once more the argument was physiological ; maternity and suckling made such vital demands on a woman 's organs that ‘ sexual desire is almost annihilated ’ . |
| 6 | The Hermitage , Kremlin , Tretyakov and Pushkin given privileged fiscal and financial status |
| 7 | The looms were used in local cottages , and warehouses occupied much of this site . |
| 8 | The foot-traveller shared the driving-board with Garvey , their elbows and heads pressed close together all the way into Horsey , and their voices murmuring . |
| 9 | To the north there is a natural mound with a small standing stone on its south side and on the top of the mound a deposit of charred branches , twigs and nuts was found under the peat and carbon dated 1300–1360 BC . |
| 10 | Out of an initial tax revenue of 442 billion dinars in 1985 , the republics and provinces transferred 251 billion dinars to the federal government , but received back grants to the value of 60 billion dinars . |
| 11 | Refreshment and dining halls and train-shed matched these lavish dimensions . |
| 12 | Yet , when frog surface layer is placed on the newt near the mouth region , suckers develop in just the right place even though , in evolution , newts and frogs separated millions of years ago . |
| 13 | I was wearing a tight black one-piece , with hands and neck coloured Egertroic green , and artful of scarlet down my front to simulate the usual bloodstains . |
| 14 | While baptism marked one rite de passage , death and burial marked another , and again the Church tried to set out appropriate actions . |
| 15 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 16 | Most students went through their school life without being excluded and schools regarded this step as a last resort . |
| 17 | The G-BUM series appears to have been passed over — with G-BUMF and G-BUMP allotted some time ago we can not believe the CAA has turned prudish in its old age … ! |
| 18 | For too long water and sewage had been , quite literally , inextricably mixed in Paris , for seepage from cesspools and cemeteries rendered much of the water supply lethal . |
| 19 | Responsible party government and pluralism fitted some of the facts of British politics for some of the time , but they were always overoptimistic and crucially flawed in ways we have pointed to in the body of this chapter . |
| 20 | This era was the age of many illustrated newspapers and magazines such as the Graphic and Punch magazine — Trood and Dent sold much of their work to these publications , as did Davidson on occasion . |
| 21 | While agricultural production fell by 1.5 per cent , construction grew by 11 per cent and mining improved due to favourable international prices and exploitation of new minerals . |
| 22 | In 1932 his speeches and articles incurred governmental censure of the university . |
| 23 | Primates and prelates exercised political power most effectively when they were moving in support of magnate opposition ; against united barons they were impotent . |
| 24 | Late last year Lord Caithness attacked the proposed Directive as " centralisation in Brussels and bureaucracy gone mad " . |
| 25 | Richard Payne Knight , in his Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste ( 1805 ) , observes that the ‘ objects and circumstances called picturesque ’ can ‘ afford no pleasure , but to persons conversant with the art of painting ’ . |
| 26 | There was widespread support for an extension to the temporary 40 per cent tax allowance for investment in plant and equipment introduced last autumn , but 66 per cent of participants disapproved of any proposal to move the burden of tax on to increased National Insurance contributions . |
| 27 | Stensland and Semonin ( 1982 ) even claim that severe drought and duststorms affected much of the USA in the 1950s , increasing the calcium and magnesium levels in soils , thereby partly explaining differences in precipitation acidity between the 1950s and 1970s . |
| 28 | Events in Russia again encouraged switching from marks to dollars , Swiss francs and pounds , and sterling closed three-eighths of a pfennig higher at Dm2.3887 , but a fifth of a cent lower at $1.4345 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , OSF claims there are some 150 pilot sites up and running DCE and promises packaged DEC-based applications will be on show at its interoperability Challenge ‘ 93 exhibition in Boston this May ( UX No 404 ) . |
| 30 | In the second series , similar techniques were used on the postcecal colon and transit assessed two hours later . |