Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of becoming very busy from August onwards , because of heighened international tension and a heavy commitment to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , RAF Stations and personnel managed to give substantial help to Wings Appeal . |
| 2 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 3 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 4 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 5 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 6 | The merchant explained there would be a tableau which would give honour to the king as well as reflect the glory of the Goldsmith 's Guild , with huge screens on which the carpenters and masons had carved elaborate scenes . |
| 7 | Many groups and denominations began to plant new churches in schools , disused church buildings and halls and pubs up and down the country . |
| 8 | As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society . |
| 9 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
| 10 | But they were able to do so only because — by chance — monkeys and apes failed to reach this island . |
| 11 | A report in the Middle East Economic Digest of March 29 claimed that the country 's roads and bridges had suffered little damage and that water supply and sewage disposal systems were in good order . |
| 12 | In this they were similar to Wester Ross but contrasted with Norway where the use of extra grants and subsidies had overcome this problem . |
| 13 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 14 | And farmers had to grow more cereal and vegetable crops . |
| 15 | For one thing , a much smaller house , because after all , C. Mellings , Printers and Stationers had to support two establishments ; Cedric 's and Jane 's house did not have that elusive but unmistakable atmosphere of ease , of success . |
| 16 | The 1975 example was a simple post-built construction measuring c. 13 by 8 m ( 43 by 26 ft ) , though only its southern wall and aisles had survived later disturbance . |
| 17 | The short pilgrimage from town to the martyr 's tomb in the suburban cemetery and the longer routes to the shrines of apostles or of the Holy Land interlocked to create a nexus of sacred topography ; pilgrims ' tales , literary accounts , guides , and itineraries helped to familiarize Western Christians with a new religious ordering of space . |
| 18 | Although there were already many activities concerned with cost and financial control , these functions would assume greater importance in the future , inferring that the expertise in Colleges should be developed or enhanced , and officers nominated to assume new responsibilities . |
| 19 | However , although rivers and estuaries helped to form these beaches , they also provide a major threat to those who windsurf from them . |
| 20 | Creditors and investors stood to lose vast sums . |
| 21 | Even if it were , its benefits would be quickly swallowed by the rapid increase in the South 's requirements as its populations grow ; and the experiences of the 1970s and 1980s in which aid and loans failed to reverse economic decline are not encouraging . |
| 22 | The school captain , Imran Kausar , explained that the school had started an environmental group five years ago , and members had highlighted local chromium dumping and the need for recycling and ‘ green ’ consumerism . |
| 23 | By taking only ‘ the greats ’ and dealing with them as isolated phenomena , conventional literary critics and scholars failed to convey any sense of the overall historical development of literature . |
| 24 | Equally important are economies of scope : big firms can use the materials and processes employed to make one product in the manufacture of related goods , as Japan 's consumer-electronics companies did in the 1970s , using the same factories that had previously churned out cheap transistor radios to manufacture televisions and videos . |
| 25 | Even before then the circulation of the magazine had been steadily falling and attempts by able editors and publishers failed to stem this sales decline . |
| 26 | The values and ideals believed to underlie Anglo-Saxon institutions appeared threatened and unstable . |
| 27 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 28 | Farmers and landowners continued to dominate rural areas , both as employers and as local councillors , and therefore as effective landlords of the housing stock within the range of farm workers : council housing , privately rented houses and tied cottages . |
| 29 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 30 | Mice and black-beetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great passion according to St Mark , in High Dutch ; but lower down all was well , and I brought away several pieces , 'cello for you , fiddle for me , and some for both together . |