Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Rooney grinned and nervously ran a wet hand under his cap , smoothing his tousled hair .
2 Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs .
3 It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent .
4 By 1846 he was deeply worried by the likely effects of free trade on monetary policy , and in two letters to the Standard he argued that , by increasing the demand for imports , free trade would precipitate an outflow of gold and thereby provoke a monetary crisis .
5 Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage .
6 ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain .
7 It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches .
8 If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in .
9 Perhaps this is evident to ( at least some ) others and thereby creates a reciprocal intolerance .
10 Therefore given the sentence ‘ John found the dog ’ , a parse may be used to determine the subject and object of the verb and thereby create a semantic representation of who found what .
11 The child may rationalise the situation by saying that the family is the only family he or she knows and thereby acquire a psychic balance .
12 The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him .
13 If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder .
14 The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery .
15 He had beaten the communists in the race to appropriate the resistance and thereby ensure a legitimate power base .
16 From the spring of 1935 the Republican left and the Socialists were therefore able to revive and eventually form a new alliance , the Popular Front , to resist ‘ fascism ’ in the future .
17 Although he does not adopt the frontal assault of Bacon on the ‘ perfect darkness ’ of a despairing scepticism , and eventually advocates a patient acceptance of our limitations , these limitations are , for him , not complete .
18 Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme .
19 In many places this molten material was then injected into the fractured rock formed by the thrusting movements , and later , when it solidified , a veinwork of pseudotachylite occurred throughout the gneiss , ‘ welding ’ it together and eventually producing a resistant rock which , in some areas , gives rise to higher hills as at Eaval in South Uist .
20 His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede .
21 Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist .
22 If the temperature is decreased , this free volume will contract and eventually reach a critical value when there is insufficient free space to allow large scale segmental motion to take place .
23 One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet .
24 The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it .
25 Tree cover would prevent further soil erosion , capture some of the precious water vapour in the atmosphere , and eventually furnish a renewable source of fuel and fodder .
26 To clear up any doubt , therefore , Notaries Public in Scotland are advised that while they may take and duly sign a solemn declaration of good repute , etc , they can not issue as such a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy .
27 Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall .
28 Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach .
29 They were captivated by the beautiful village , played croquet on the lawn and altogether had a delightful time .
30 Accordingly , without ever rising from my sordid bed , I lay and groaned and babbled , and altogether gave a wonderful impression of a man in extremity .
  Next page