Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 2 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 3 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 4 | They ploughed cash into marketing attempts and even won a prize from the local council . |
| 5 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 6 | I said about to see him and I says no , he says I should of kept the houses and just done the lot . |
| 7 | This means that when I was out of work for six weeks and most needed the publication , I could not receive it . |
| 8 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 9 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 10 | But for this problem , the encouraging increase in student numbers in 1957- 58 — which was maintained in subsequent years and so marked the beginning of an upward trend — would probably have been apparent one year earlier . |
| 11 | Trowel in hand Carolyn stooped over the dense lettuce seedlings and carefully removed a clump of them . |
| 12 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 13 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 14 | One royal observer says : ‘ He was the envy of fellow officers and inevitably developed a crush on the princess . |
| 15 | However , if well treated , they made generous neighbours and always marked the birth of a neighbourhood child with a pouchful of gold sovereigns . |
| 16 | USAID granted a loan of US$27,000,000 to help support the balance of payments and also endorsed a government plan announced in late October under which 7,000 public employees would be dismissed over the following year . |
| 17 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 18 | When he re-emerged on record in 1987 he was ready for all comers and quickly established a reputation as the upcoming DJ . |
| 19 | According to Pleydell , Mayne was allowed to choose its members and naturally selected the core of the original L Detachment veterans plus a few of the newcomers . |
| 20 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 21 | But aviation enthusiast David thompson — an ICI electrician — searched the site at Cowpen Bewley for clues and soon solved the mystery . |
| 22 | I have been lucky to have been on plenty of tours and hardly missed a training session or match so , by the law of averages , I ca n't complain about that disappointing end to what had been a very enjoyable season . |
| 23 | A graduate of Exeter College , Oxford , Tolkien had read Classical Mods and then done a version of the English course which was rigidly philological , and did not concern itself with post-medieval literature . |
| 24 | The problem for the State is , that while the family sent a letter in 1942 declaring its intention to reach an agreement over what should be considered inalienable heirlooms and therefore assured a permanence in the family 's headquarters of Schloss St Emmeram in Regensburg , this agreement was never actually realised . |
| 25 | Abolished the Greater London Council and metropolitan counties and thus removed a tier of strategic planning in many of the Green Belt areas . |
| 26 | He burned his letters and even destroyed a picture of the doctor 's dead father . |
| 27 | Erm I 've written umpteen letters and never got a job since . |
| 28 | If you have entered many competitions and never won a thing , this might not be because your work is poor . |
| 29 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 30 | The Council 's ten-point plan also included approaching Customs and Excise with exhortations about increased searches for illicit supplies and also involved a delegation going to the Home Office to meet the minister concerned with drug misuse . |