Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the defence of this social unit that set many of the boundaries to the debates and limited the eventual legislative reform . |
| 2 | Nevertheless he was at one with Wheatley on the need to abandon free trade and develop a protected imperial bloc . |
| 3 | Ultimately , however , the dog may become iron deficient and develop a microcytic hypochromic anaemia . |
| 4 | Barbarossa 's declared and overall intention was to purify , restore and develop the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 5 | Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background . |
| 6 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 7 | He put the bottle on the low table and laid the old horn-handled corkscrew down beside it , a patient sacrifice to the economies that her careless pregnancy necessitated . |
| 8 | Ballymacarrett is located east and the Clonard and the Hammer west of the River Lagan , which bisects Belfast and constitutes an important socio-geographical boundary . |
| 9 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 10 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
| 11 | MacEachan denounced the Prime Minister 's action and led a five-day Liberal boycott of the Senate . |
| 12 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 13 | Collaboration and satisfaction regarding decisions were measured using a specially developed instrument which defined collaboration and asked a single global question about the amount of collaboration involved in a specific decision . |
| 14 | Mazzolla 's infant son , Allesandro , was raised by his mother and became a prominent Italian internationalist in the '60s , scoring Milan 's only goal against Celtic in the European Cup Final in 1967 . |
| 15 | Congregationalist , Philip Doddridge preached here for 22 years and became a famous local figure . |
| 16 | The younger Ambrose served an apprenticeship in London , where he settled and became a great wholesale ironmonger serving both the home and export markets . |
| 17 | , in Chambers Street , was founded as a technical institute in 1821 and became a fully- fledged university in 1966 . |
| 18 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 19 | The Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1846 largely under the inspiration of a Polish Jew , Ridley Herschell , who had been converted in London and became a notable Nonconformist preacher in the capital . |
| 20 | Muldoon had retired from politics in 1991 and became a popular talk-show host with an Auckland radio station . |
| 21 | With relief , I abandoned any pretence at being clever and became a mystic assistant labourer . |
| 22 | There was great excitement in February 1987 , when a supernova flared up in the Large Cloud and became an easy naked-eye object . |
| 23 | The port of Goole on the River Ouse was opened in 1826 , at the junction of the Aire and Calder Navigation with the Ouse and the Don , and became an important Victorian canal port , providing a link with the Humber and the North Sea for places such as Doncaster , Wakefield and Sheffield . |
| 24 | In 1742 he went to Sweden without her and became an esteemed agricultural adviser , but was executed in 1747 for alleged political activities . |
| 25 | He abandoned Methodism early in life and became an extreme High Churchman . |
| 26 | From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher . |
| 27 | The PPD merged with the small Party for New Democratic Alliance in April , and became the New Democratic Party [ see p. 38147 ] . |
| 28 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 29 | Sufism , the mysticism of Islam , was extremely influential in the Muslim world and became the dominant Islamic piety in many areas of the empire until the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | The doves gave up strutting and whitening the old ping-pong table and set off , flapping busily towards the purple hillside . |