Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 2 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 3 | ‘ Irrespective of how we feel about each other , we must now put such emotions aside , and concentrate on the only really important issues . |
| 4 | The task of political sociology is to define these issues and problems in a rigorous way , to describe and analyse the wider structural and historical context , to enquire into the causes of political events , and to indicate in an imaginative rather than restrictive fashion the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 5 | London , with its highly compact districts , took the lead in this , and moved to a two-tier rather than three-tier organisation . |
| 6 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 7 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 8 | For fairly obvious reasons the conversations begin with one of the most recent entrants to the profession , and ends with the two most senior actors . |
| 9 | In addition to the memory of what had happened to the established Church during the 1640s and 1650s , the repeated reports of Nonconformist plots ( both alleged and real ) against the government in Church and State from the 1660s onwards encouraged a belief in the need for constant vigilance against a subversive Nonconformist threat . |
| 10 | Millions of Europeans still worked on the land , and the absolute numbers of those dependent on agriculture for a livelihood did not begin to fall until very recently , yet the tendency for population to increase and to accumulate in a few densely populated and highly urbanized regions had already begun to alter the patterns of earlier centuries . |
| 11 | Briefly , for those who want to search for one of these rarities : beautiful , very fast , start saving at £14,000 and go for the carburetted rather than the injected version . |
| 12 | He pulled his wings back for speed , leaned into the wind to gain maximum drive and stooped down upon them , the air thunderous in his wings as , with talons thrust forward , he thumped the first straight to its death among the wet beach rocks and tore at the other viciously before it squawked and fled to safety in the shadows of the cliff . |
| 13 | The argument was heard that even if , in the 1930s , there were other and perhaps more dangerous aggressors in the world , the latest imperialists had been inspired and encouraged by the deplorable yet seductive empire-building example set by the British . |
| 14 | Thanks to the " parish subsidy " , they argued , farmers could offer lower wages and employ on a casual rather than regular basis . |
| 15 | Born in America 's Midwest , Seberg , who committed suicide in 1979 , came to prominence as Jean Paul Belmondo 's co-star in the French new wave classic Breathless and starred in the first ever X-rated movie released in the States , Birds In Peru . |
| 16 | Zacchaeus gritted his teeth and waited for a great long telling off from Jesus . |
| 17 | In the morning Rachaela bathed and dressed , and tugged on the bell-pull so that Cheta miraculously appeared . |
| 18 | No mention of the Holy Spirit , you notice : merely a foreshadowing of the role of the disciples in being witnesses to the Messiah who had to suffer and rise from the dead so that repentance and forgiveness could be preached to the nations , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:46f ) . |
| 19 | Is the road to Scottish-style democracy and a Scottish parliament just plain littered with members of opposing parties linking arms and striding towards the new tomorrow ? |
| 20 | Meanwhile people went in and out of the pharmacy but only two women of conceivably Agnes 's age : one very tall and striding in a long ethnic-of-somewhere skirt the other short and waddling , flat-heeled long blonde hair dark jacket and beret and a huge shoulder bag . |