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

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1 Technological developments have permitted product differentiation , and made possible more flexible production and supply arrangements .
2 This steepens at the bottom and involves some moderately difficult scrambling .
3 That he was going to barge into her bedroom and reveal some deeply untrustworthy side to his personality ?
4 We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to .
5 I believe it 's the intention of the authorities to try and do some very detailed work over the coming months , then armed with that detailed assessment and hopefully armed with your recommendations they may aim to be pr proceed to the modification step of the structure plan in a way that which will lead to a speedy conclusion .
6 I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in
7 Eventually a big parcel arrived , filled with shavings and tissue paper and containing one very superior chocolate .
8 By then she should have answers to all the questions Cara had listed , and could then sit back and take one very relieved breath .
9 The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support .
10 I remember seeing that smile and hearing that impeccably cheerful voice .
11 An even quicker alternative is to omit the tinned fruit and use two commercially prepared gooseberry fools mixed with chopped fresh orange segments .
12 Teaching is formal but the children seemed interested and responsive and managed some surprisingly good writing despite immense disabilities .
13 I was at a concert with the children a month or so later and saw one rather pushy friend , who I could normally handle .
14 The very name of Torridon flutters the hearts of those who know and love this most exciting mountain area .
15 Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer .
16 He glimpsed a fallacy , said ‘ Longer to us , I mean ’ with a vague interest in nailing it , and then thought the hell with it and bought some very expensive soap .
17 Those who design , develop and approve this marginally acceptable architecture must be delighted that its very banality keeps critics and hostile public opinion at bay .
18 The gas central heating system is built around a highly efficient condensing boiler which removes extra heat from flue gases and converts this otherwise wasted energy into usable warmth .
19 In that case , you might as well pack up your books and take some moderately energetic exercise — which is usually more therapeutic than brooding over your mental blockage .
20 Using the bike and the pick-up stick I find that I can cover quite a large area of ground and take some very good exercise at the same time . ’
21 It will help if you lie down and have some very soft music playing .
22 No go and have some more scintillating conversation with Ross .
23 The NSF has the same broad objectives as MIND — it acts as an advocate for individuals , campaigns for better local services , organizes support groups for patients and their families and publishes some very helpful literature .
24 The Kompass directory , for example , is organised by industry and location and provides such potentially useful information as :
25 Heavily wooded , in pleasing contrast to the moors , it 's an important and protected haven for wildlife — and provides some very impressive walking .
26 The curator of Miami Seaquarium , Warren Zeiller , in his book ‘ Tropical Marine Invertebrates of Southern Florida and the Bahama Islands ’ ( Wiley-Interscience Publications ) chronicles the captive breeding successes of Miami Seaquarium and provides some very valuable information .
27 Of course , these occurred in all parts of the country and include some apparently random choice of plants for closure .
28 In the process of acquiring , indexing , organizing and exchanging this sometimes considerable amount of information and material , clearinghouse personnel see much that is good and bad , and with difficulty can they avoid making assessments and judgements .
29 The real question is to encourage and to make feasible more horizontal collaboration by working with managers within individual business units , through programmes which get resources across existing business units , and by having top management play a much more active role in managing the totality of the firm as a portfolio of core competences
30 Erm so we decided that it was important to try and find some more formalised way of testing what er the market satisfaction was and the service we are providing .
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