Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This dominance in modern times is attributed by Hayek to the success of the Philosophical Radicals of the nineteenth century in replacing the ideal of government under law with the ideal of a government controlled by a popular assembly and free to take any action of which that assembly approved .
2 The movement cost less than 10 per cent of the price quoted by the British firm and this included all import duties and delivery charges , and VAT .
3 The Social Secretary thanked Mr and Mrs Preshous for a very informative presentation and all agreed that time had run out all too quickly .
4 He was a very private man and some mistook this for aloofness .
5 It is also an example of communal living and co-operative working that is a success .
6 The CPC had released a statement from its three-day conference at the end of May strongly condemning corruption and excessive expenditure and promising to tackle these problems .
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