Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair . |
| 2 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 3 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 4 | The incoming government proposed to diversify Codelco 's production and vigorously opposed the new law , from which the article restricting Codelco 's operations was ultimately removed . |
| 5 | They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 . |
| 6 | As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons . |
| 7 | Encouraged by the Labour government of 1964–70 and the attempt of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation to restructure parts of British industry , GEC took over AEI and English Electric and successfully reorganised the ailing electronics industry during the 1960s by rationalisation , elimination of duplication and elimination of excess capacity . |
| 8 | Last year , the Texas delegation in the House sided with American Airlines against repeal and successfully blocked the relevant bill . |
| 9 | Rolling in the grass , he doused his fiery overalls and luckily suffered no severe injury . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 11 | Here synthesis has been used to clarify the structure of this material and thence show the biosynthetic relationship of haem d 1 to other families of the ‘ pigments of life ’ . |
| 12 | The train stopped , and instantly passenger after passenger mounted the roofs , and thence saluted the Royal company with a united shout of welcome . |
| 13 | And thence begins the ecological richness of Africa . |
| 14 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 15 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 16 | By 1846 he was deeply worried by the likely effects of free trade on monetary policy , and in two letters to the Standard he argued that , by increasing the demand for imports , free trade would precipitate an outflow of gold and thereby provoke a monetary crisis . |
| 17 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 18 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 19 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 20 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 21 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 22 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 23 | One was a technological convergence which raised productivity levels in European and Japanese industry and thereby diminished the absolute superiority of US industry . |
| 24 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 25 | Physical skills such as slow breathing or chewing gum can reduce the heart rate and thereby lessen the automatic appraisal of the stressor as threatening . |
| 26 | Perhaps this is evident to ( at least some ) others and thereby creates a reciprocal intolerance . |
| 27 | In order to avoid automatic cuts , the summit negotiators faced the prospect of raising taxes and cutting expenditure , or of raising the Gramm-Rudman targets and thereby loosening the only form of discipline governing the budgetary process . |
| 28 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 29 | For in that case , the elaborate precautions to avoid eye contact could be read as a suspicion of his motives and thereby create a second order of virtual offence . |
| 30 | This new department , specifically created to raise the profile and thereby create a stronger image for the HCIMA , is working towards greater awareness of the Association and its activities , to promote membership , introduce new ( and enhance existing ) services , and to advise and assist all departments and branches to ensure the HCIMA is market and member led . |