Example sentences of "and [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alameda has worked with the navy for a long time , and 8,000 jobs would go if it closed ; Everett expects 6,000 sailors and their families to arrive when it is finished , and has built most of the infrastructure . |
| 2 | Karla Fohrbeck has no party-political affiliation and has fallen foul of the SPD ( the Social Democratic Party ) running the town . |
| 3 | The study reported in this paper has adopted the latter approach and has explored one of the constant metabolic effects of ethanol on the pancreas — namely , increased lysosomal fragility , which may render the organ susceptible to autodigestion by facilitating contact between pancreatic digestive enzymes and lysosomal hydrolases . |
| 4 | No , you 're just a pathetic monomaniac who 's lived too long and has become obsessed with the idea of making the entire planet suffer for an ancient wrong that was perpetrated by a mindless minority ! ’ |
| 5 | Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar . |
| 6 | At the personal computer level , Epson has specialised in the economy printer market and has become one of the market leaders . |
| 7 | Friends point out she is mature for her age and has become accustomed to the cameras , as her relaxed style showed when she joined her father at the polling booth on election day . |
| 8 | But America has always wanted Israel to give up some of the occupied territory , and has grown keener since the start of a desperate revolt by the occupied people . |
| 9 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 10 | Since then Gilford has nursed an ambition to become a major figure in the game and has proved one of the strong men on the PGA European tour . |
| 11 | LASMO has confirmed its strategy of disengagement from the US and has sold most of the assets of LASMO Enery Corporation in the US for cash totalling nearly $74 million . |
| 12 | She has obtained planning permission for the change of use and has bought some of the equipment needed but has not yet started trading . |
| 13 | Entitled to 60 seats in all , and having secured 53 in the constituencies , they would be awarded seven of the list seats , the remaining 47 being available for proportionate distribution among the other parties . |
| 14 | Looking through our own experience in other parts of Britain and having read some of the submissions of erm others on this subject , we reached the conclusion that the most helpful thing to do might be to have a policy which was criteria based . |
| 15 | I have just found your September 92 issue , and having spent most of the day with my nose between its covers I shall put it on order with my local Smiths on Monday . |
| 16 | Most of the destruction was caused by Iraqi sabotage , although allied bombing was reported to have ignited as many as 34 wells and to have damaged 13 of the country 's 18 oil-gathering facilities . |
| 17 | He had bought too many farms and had gone bankrupt in the agricultural depression at the beginning of this century . |
| 18 | Like other nuns in the community , Sister Teresa taught literacy to the peasants and had become involved in the peasant marches of the early 1980s organized to protest against poverty and violence in the region . |
| 19 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |
| 20 | It was building on its strengths in aeronautical engineering and other areas , and had developed one of the country 's first degree courses in computer science . |
| 21 | They had recently converted their Kingston area routes to trolleybus operation and had obtained some of the new Feltham type cars for their Uxbridge route . |
| 22 | Brian Whitaker , who had been editor of the Insight team , and had remained alone in the old Grays Inn Road Sunday Times building finishing a book on the sinking of Greenpeace 's Rainbow Warrior , brought along his production skills . |
| 23 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 24 | Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi . |
| 25 | I now had the tin open , and had selected one of the frenchies . |
| 26 | Coleman had agreed to Hurley 's request that he renew his DEA consultancy contract for the 1988 opium-growing season , and had cleared this with the DIA . |
| 27 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 28 | Mr. Mallory is a consultant in electronics and audio visual equipment and had made some of the slide changing and fading equipment himself . |
| 29 | She was sitting by the food tray , and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away . |
| 30 | They had been wary , and had resolved many of the doubts of two suspicious , confirmed loners already . |