Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and President Franois Mitterrand were able to establish French leadership in the European Community because the separation of East and West had restricted German initiatives and recalled German guilt . |
| 2 | We were not convinced , however , that his plan to reintroduce small unitary authorities would foster the vision and expertise needed to meet this challenge . |
| 3 | Both are concerned with an explicit recognition in managing a workforce that the way in which the organisation is structured , work is delegated and responsibility apportioned have direct relevance to managing performance . |
| 4 | The raft was defective and settlement occurred causing serious cracks to appear in the houses . |
| 5 | In most of the West European colonial powers the alliance between mob and capital to form a bridge between nationalism and racism worked to ship internal pressures abroad to the colonies . |
| 6 | They were talking as the horses climbed the low hill on which church and manor stood facing each other , when Carrie suddenly exclaimed , ‘ What 's that light in the window of the manor , Seb ? ’ |
| 7 | Perdita and Trace had detested each other on sight and , together with Randy , Trace spent a lot of time when they were n't screwing , winding Perdita up . |
| 8 | Alliances provide the mix of scale and flexibility needed to generate sufficient revenues for next-generation product development . |
| 9 | Since the Japanese and Taiwanese refused to supply any data on the albacore drift-net fishery , it was hardly surprising that no information on incidental dolphin catches had come to light . |
| 10 | While prominent Wesleyans like Hughes , J. Scott Lidgett , R. W. Perks , Charles Kelly and Henry Lunn were active and , in Hughes ' case , vital to the movement , the majority held aloof and Conference refused to take any notice of the Council . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that the war with Spain was brought to an end in 1604 , the great majority of the English clergy and laity continued to view Roman Catholicism with the same mixture of deep loathing and suspicion as had their Elizabethan predecessors , regarding it as a serious threat to both their national security and the well-being of their souls . |
| 12 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 13 | Only shame and pride had prevented that humiliation . |
| 14 | The first connection took place at 1127 hours on Friday 22nd January , and output had reached 112 MW on 24th January when due to severe weather conditions the National Grid was disconnected from Dounreay and PFR tripped . |
| 15 | A light was beginning to dawn in my mind , an elucidation of how man and dog had found each other , of why their relationship was so perfect , of the certainty of their happy future together . |
| 16 | Naturally , she 'd heard of this legendary Tech-Green , and was disappointed someone of such intelligence and vision had allowed maudlin dross to get in the way of his career . |
| 17 | Informed consent was obtained , and endoscopy performed using 3–7 mg midazolam intravenously for sedation . |
| 18 | The Regent and Lovat had known each other for a long time and shared affection and respect . |
| 19 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 21 | The output has been three double-sided video discs on energy , radiation and risk aimed to cover appropriate attainment levels decreed by the National Curriculum . |
| 22 | István Nemeskürty replaced as president of Hungarian Television Gyula Bereczky , who resigned in November 1989 , saying that the board entrusted with supervising television and radio had turned editorial board meetings into scenes of party battles . |
| 23 | This company holds a national hair colouring competition " every year with regional heats , and radio had shown little interest either in covering the event or in interviewing the winners . |
| 24 | At bedtime he would say that his muscles and belly had ached all day ( a problem since his early years ) and it would take an hour and a half to get to sleep . |
| 25 | The technology required to cope with this would far beyond the capabilities of the microcomputers present in school and the cost of hardware and software needed to run such system would be prohibitive . |
| 26 | The award relates specifically to manufacturing and supply and Precision had to satisfy 18 criteria from purchasing , process control and inspection , including training and customer service . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont said housing and construction had faced particular difficulties in the last two years . |
| 28 | Researchers working on the biochemistry of learning and memory needed to develop new model systems , in which the changes we sought to identify would be big enough to be measured , yet in which we could be sure that they were n't simply artefacts . |
| 29 | When the family arrived for Easter , Mum gave me a Portmeirion tea set which I love , and Dad had found two dining chairs in an antique shop in Castle Douglas . |
| 30 | One type of evidence comes in very much larger quantities from Charles 's kingdom than from any other in the ninth century : capitularies — that is , lists of points ( capitula literally means " headings " ) discussed and/or adopted as law by assemblies where king and aristocracy met to settle public affairs . |