Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 De Lubac , von Balthasar , Bouyer and Jacques Maritain could cry ‘ treason ’ , but Marxism , structuralism and post-structuralism collectively devastated the French School of Theology until it almost ceased significantly to exist .
2 And MS-DOS swiftly became the standard operating system for PCs .
3 Belfast and District again welcomed the General Secretary Ciaran Ryan , incoming President Leonard Coote and incoming Vice-President Ken Doyle and other guests .
4 Although the Europeans and Japanese firmly resisted the reserve indicator plan , which would apply heavy pressure on surplus countries , they insisted that the United States should in effect reinstitute convertibility .
5 Mother and son alike became the passive , helpless witnesses to the demise , fall and dissolution of a man who had given direction to them both .
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