Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it .
3 I caught a soldier 's harassed glance , and suddenly remembered a modern Ulster saying : ‘ There were more helicopters than at Crossmaglen . ’
4 Two-thirds of the schools had no boarders , and most were situated in the towns — especially in the North of England , where many were Roman Catholic and so represented a useful variant of the religious settlement which Butler incorporated in the 1944 Act .
5 He immediately married a Suabian noblewoman called Hildegarde , and so gained a new wife and the unrelenting hatred and opposition of his ex father-in-law .
6 We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ .
7 It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years .
8 If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance .
9 They were still unsure about what to put on the B-side , and only made a final decision as they travelled to the recording studio on the bus .
10 She ate her meals alone , and only caught a fleeting glimpse of him all day as he disappeared through a far doorway .
11 I was comfortably warm using the main bag and bivvy bag for an outdoor bivvy ( lowest temperature +5°C ) and only found a small amount of condensation on the inside when I woke up .
12 On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained .
13 She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression .
14 An obsession with the Classical past was to return under the emperor Hadrian , who took a deep personal interest in the fortunes of Greece and eagerly adopted a Greek appearance .
15 You 've down-sized , restructured , looked at amalgamations and generally sought a new role , just like the E E F , just like industry .
16 Alton 's rugby men were outnumbered , restricted , sin-binned and generally given a rough ride when a hand-picked side took on the club 's ladies team in a fun game on Sunday morning .
17 A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’
18 I 've written six letters and not had a single reply .
19 Some years ago , research workers at London 's Victoria and Albert Museum and elsewhere encountered a considerable quantity of textiles in a recognizable style , composed mainly of exuberant large blossoms with curvilinear stems , sometimes joined to trees which were no longer rooted to the earth .
20 Sometimes it was known as the Char because of its sign — a crude but unmistakable painting of that fish found only in the deepest lakes — Buttermere being one — and already considered a fashionable delicacy in London .
21 The Monnet Plan however , committed France to economic growth , with the aim of surpassing the best pre-war levels of industrial output by 1950 , and thus marked a revolutionary change in attitudes from the economic stagnation of the Third Republic .
22 And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of .
23 they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer .
24 The Greek economy , despite a five-year transition period , could not compete equally with the EC and soon faced a massive trade deficit , and the Socialist government in Athens pursued a negative policy towards the EC for several years .
25 Thereafter he took heed from being dropped once or twice , and soon established a permanent place in the team .
26 They quickly recruited others and soon established a formidable department which based its teaching on a principle of direct engagement with the student .
27 In addition to treatment with chloride , the firm has stabilised the porosity of the walls and finally applied a fine film to inhibit water penetration .
28 He looked around very carefully and finally met a young lady with whom he fell head-long in love .
29 A handsome young man and a rather glamorous middle-aged woman , perhaps his mother , looked round the shop and finally bought a small brass rocking horse .
30 They acted from a position of power and effortlessly preserved a strong feeling of their own identity and superiority .
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