Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 2 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 3 | If it be necessary or desirable to protect the holder of a patent against fraud or dishonesty it must equally be necessary and desirable to protect the plaintiffs against the fraud and dishonesty alleged in the present case . |
| 4 | Later in the programme we ask are positive discrimination and chauvinism thriving in the Labour Party ? |
| 5 | In this case the presence of oxygen and hydrogen mixed in the optimum proportions , could well have compounded the effect . |
| 6 | Silvicultural management has been practised since the 1920s , beginning first with regulation of the telling cycle and then the stimulation of natural regeneration by cutting climbers , removing uneconomic species and canopy thinning in the 1930s , as has been described by Kio and Ekwebelam ( 1987 ) . |
| 7 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 8 | For decades , as the Royal Commission on Wealth and Income demonstrated in the late 1970s , those disparities were modified by the social benefits available under the welfare state . |
| 9 | Following his string of single and album hits in the '70s , a marriage and children , Steve let the '80s slip by . |
| 10 | This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example . |
| 11 | Glasses clash and cutlery clatters in the all-night cantinas where drunken revellers confuse the robot waiters and flee along the colonnades , their bills unpaid , their breath steaming in the thin and wintry air . |
| 12 | This difference probably reflects the variation in questions and methodology used in the two surveys . |
| 13 | And among everyone 's favourite sports the fitness-testing darts and snooker ranked in the top six . |
| 14 | The commitment to whole curriculum planning and review represented in the final report suggested a need to investigate further the implications of whole school curriculum development . |
| 15 | That weapon 's yet to be found and police have been searching through the gardens of nearby houses and lifting drains in the surrounding area looking for the knife . |
| 16 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 17 | In the Junior School we are determined to keep pace with current thought and practice identified in the recent national initiatives while maintaining the traditional standards of excellence which parents rightly expect of George Heriot 's . |
| 18 | His latest plan is to introduce DM20 billion ( $12.5 billion ) of extra savings and revenue increases in the 1994 budget , due to be unveiled on July 13th . |
| 19 | Mike Nichols ' comedy drama Working Girl considers talent and ambition hidden in the secretarial pool of a Wall Street Brokerage house . |
| 20 | Policemen are trained to seek out evidence and interview suspects in the rough and tumble of criminal enquiries , whereas prosecutors lack both the training and the inclination for this task . |
| 21 | Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University . |
| 22 | The basic legal distinction between murder and manslaughter lies in the mental element , but English law has now developed qualified defences to murder which mark out cases where , despite the presence of the mental element for murder , culpability is thought to be sufficiently reduced to warrant a reduction in the class of offence . |
| 23 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |
| 24 | Once agreement is reached , the settlement is just as final as a judgment and , unless the agreement has been improperly procured , the issues of fact and law raised in the original claim may not be the subject of further litigation . |
| 25 | Entertainments including music , singing and dancing held in the lower cafe part of the Priory would be even closer to residential properties in the village square and thus more likely to disturb local residents . |
| 26 | Kin and marriage ties in the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries bound together such antislavery families as the Gurneys , the Frys , the Hoares , the Hodgkins , the Foxes and the Barclays . |
| 27 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 28 | His family , it seemed , had not been in the habit of exchanging presents , almost inconceivably to Nenna , whose childhood had been gift-ridden , with much atonement , love and reconciliation conveyed in the bright wrappings . |
| 29 | It has never been docile — the press was resisted with great violence in both North and South Shields in the early nineteenth century — but it has always been ordered . |
| 30 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |