Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advisers and inspectors can be a stimulus to more rigorous thinking and have an important role to play in encouraging schools to be more self-critical . |
| 2 | Porsche engineers have overthrown conventional thinking and built an all-wheel drive car to shake the world : the 911 Carrera 4 . |
| 3 | The firm now employs 30 people , exports about 20 per cent of its pro-duct and has an annual turnover of £10m. in various currencies . |
| 4 | Real , defending a 2–1 lead from the first leg , faced a Torino side urged on by 120,000 fans and suffered an early setback when Rocha deflected a shot from Gianluigi Lentini into his own net . |
| 5 | Compact may be seen as taking the relationship between Education and Industry a step closer , by creating a demand for Partnership and providing an Industry-based resource for the curriculum . |
| 6 | The result , analysts say , will be a slowing of credit for Japanese companies that could prevent capital investment and block an economic recovery . |
| 7 | People in the British colony of Hong Kong could settle in the British colony of the Falklands and form an independent state . |
| 8 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 9 | Keith Clash , 27 , was jailed for over two months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday after admitting theft and carrying an offensive weapon . |
| 10 | A separation between the judicial and the legislative and executive branches obviously exists in both Britain and the United States in the sense that in practice the judges are secure in their offices and have an independent status . |
| 11 | Turbulent Italian passions leave the sedate Edwardians at a loss and create an oppressive sense of melodrama . |
| 12 | He closed his eyes and offered an anguished prayer to his own ancestors and those of the dead man , begging their forgiveness . |
| 13 | Marie-Christine caught Sabine 's eyes and gave an expressive wink . |
| 14 | Step aboard our steam train , settle in your seat and enjoy an everchanging landscape on the eighteen miles from Grosmont to Pickering . |
| 15 | It is certainly not without significance that the Association always maintained a link with the new youth movement by aligning itself with the Boys ' Brigade and playing an active role in the formation of the Scouts . |
| 16 | At a rally of 60,000 supporters at the Afrikaner Voortrekker Monument near Pretoria on May 26 , Andries Treurnicht , leader of the Conservative Party ( CP ) , the official parliamentary opposition , outlined his party 's strategy for reversing the government 's reform programme and achieving an Afrikaner homeland . |
| 17 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 18 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 19 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 20 | Not content with putting his case , he is threatening to use NCR 's poison pill to increase drastically the cost of the bid and to invoke an anti-takeover law in Maryland , where the firm is incorporated , that would freeze any bid for five years . |
| 21 | When Harold Wilson came to office , one Polaris submarine was cancelled , but the programme continued and Labour sought a consensus with other political parties and played an enormous role in NATO . |
| 22 | Andorrans would for the first time wield full sovereignty , be able to form and join unions and political parties and have an independent judiciary . |
| 23 | Andorrans will for the first time wield full sovereignty , be able to form and join unions and political parties and have an independent judiciary . |
| 24 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |
| 25 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 26 | The theatre closed , only to reopen a year later , by which time Emma Cons had raised further funds and launched an ambitious season of concerts , plays , and scientific lectures . |
| 27 | He got into the habit of coming down into our cell and asking an endless string of questions on vocabulary , which he normally directed at Terry . |
| 28 | Mandru leaned back on his couch and made an expansive gesture to include his vibrancers . |
| 29 | The idea of doing research and pursuing an academic career was common ground to both of them ; indeed they had never considered any alternative . |
| 30 | A group of 17 international Prolog suppliers , including IBM , Siemens Nixdorf and Quintus , have formed a strategic collaborative alliance called the Prolog Vendors Group ( PVG ) to demonstrate that the language has grown beyond the domain of AI research and become an effective tool in commercial and industrial applications . |