Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then groups co-operated in a trial of certain approaches to study skills teaching , and groups collaborated in a closer examination of the problems students find and possible solutions which might be offered .
2 The close relationship between the research on Zeta and tokamaks led to a cooperative experiment involving the UK and the Soviet Union in 1969 .
3 Gary and Nails lived in an old dump behind the bus station .
4 While obvious omissions and errors led to a large number of entrants ' disqualification at an early stage , the judges found that , on the whole , standards of compliance with best practice had improved .
5 Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642- 1727 ) in his second paper on light and colours spoke of an electro-magnetic-like , subtle , vibrating electric and elastic medium as the inorganic basis of life .
6 Original air intakes and filters came from an old lorry .
7 Weavers and knitters flourished in an Indian summer during which power spinning provided abundant yarn , while power weaving lay still in the future .
8 W.H. Allan , once director of agriculture in Northern Rhodesia and the author of a definitive work on change in decade the land area planted to cotton increased from 67,000 hectares to 170,000 hectares , and fears grew of a long-term decline in fertility .
9 This development will call for detailed research in order to establish clearly and unambiguously the skills and understandings testified by a given level of achievement .
10 The Punjab government on Oct. 21 ordered the freezing of the assets of 113 directors and sponsors implicated in a recent financial co-operatives scandal [ see p. 38438 ] .
11 Are such cells and synapses localized to a particular brain region , or are they diffused across many sites within the brain ?
12 Likewise , in south Yorkshire , the cutlery factors and nailchapmen started in a modest way from the local ranks of metalworker-farmers whose surnames had long been characteristic ones in the area .
13 Folk myths and wisdoms survived for a long time .
14 Cellular and nuclear debris were removed from the lysate by a 5-min centrifugation at 300 g and membranes pelleted by a 30-min centrifugation at 100,000 g .
15 In those early oil years they were easy marks and millions , perhaps billions , were lost in the pockets of the sleazy where the pounds and dollars grew in a muddy climate .
16 Her dark hair was a wild , half-damp tangle , her face and hands begrimed with a black substance that had the most awful smell .
17 Orgel and colleagues began with a weak solution of the poison .
18 John Viney at Heidrick and Struggles came from a general consultancy and two other executive search firms before coming to Heidrick and Struggles .
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