Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be . |
| 2 | In this pamphlet and elsewhere , Keynes proposed the inflationary gap theory of inflation : upward pressure on money wages and prices would be felt with increasing severity as the pressure of demand approached and eventually exceeded full employment output , Y * ; . |
| 3 | A retrospective of works by the long neglected and little known French painter Henri Foreau ( 1866–1938 ) is being held by Paris dealers Marie-Christine Carlioz and Hélène Bucaille Feau in Galerie de la Scala from 18 November to 11 December . |
| 4 | Toulousians do not use much butter , but they typically follow a diet that is high in bread , vegetables , fruit , cheese and locally produced fat-laden goose liver ; and they drink plenty of red wine . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , they felt deprived and easily resumed old eating habits , often in response to stress . |
| 6 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 7 | A particularly fine and richly illustrated fifteenth-century prayer book sold for FFr650,000 ( £66,300 ; $116,000 ) . |
| 8 | In 1963 , Makarios aborted the constitution and totally destroyed Turkish Cypriot rights . |
| 9 | With an assured and calmly poised new backing singer , a new bod on keyboards and Mr C and Colin Angus at the helm , the Scottish explorers keep developing . |
| 10 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 11 | Sharing the beauty and tranquillity of this location with a few other houses , a former farm building was initially converted into a restaurant in about 1970 and rapidly acquired local fame thanks to the good cooking and the able management of the owner who gave it his own name ‘ Leonetto ’ . |
| 12 | The ruling followed the Court 's refusal in March to extradite Dermot Finucane and James Pius Clarke , two escaped prisoners who were members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) [ see pp. 37329-30 ] , and further strained Irish-United Kingdom relations . |
| 13 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |
| 14 | Others who have come and gone include Anthony Simonds-Gooding , former chairman and chief executive of the communications division , who left in October 1987 and later joined British Satellite Broadcasting . |
| 15 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 16 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 17 | Huge areas of open land were evident until enclosure from the seventeenth century onwards ; large areas of common , former royal forests and openly grazed rough wood pasture areas disappeared in early nineteenth-century acts . |
| 18 | Preparation : 10 mins plus 1 hour marinating Cooking : 40 mins Serves 2–3 2 × 675g ( 1 ½lb ) spring chickens salt and freshly ground black pepper juice of 1 lemon 75ml ( 5 tbsp ) olive oil 3 sprigs of rosemary or 15ml ( 1 tbsp ) dried 60ml ( 4 tbsp ) freshly chopped parsley or 30ml ( 2tbsp ) dried 1 packet of Rice&Things Italian 1 lemon cut into wedges to garnish Cut the chickens in half lengthways . |
| 19 | 125g/4oz/1 cup Stilton cheese , crumbled salt and freshly ground black pepper 125ml/5fl oz/⅔ cup double or thick cream 75ml/3fl oz/¼ cup walnut oil crumbled Stilton to garnish |
| 20 | 25g/1oz dried mushrooms , preferably ceps 500ml/1pt/2½ cups boiling water 25g/1oz butter 2 × 15ml/tbsp olive oil 1,800g/4lb joint boned and rolled rib of beef 1 clove garlic , crushed few drops Tabasco sauce salt and freshly ground black pepper 125ml/5fl oz/⅔ cup double or thick cream 1 egg yolk |
| 21 | Try this with pasta , grilled meat or fish Serves 4 1 onion chopped 1 clove garlic , crushed 15ml ( 1 tbsp ) oil 400g ( 14 oz ) tin tomatoes or 450g ( 1 lb ) fresh tomatoes , skinned and roughly chopped 60ml ( 4 tbsp ) stock 5ml ( 1 tsp ) sugar salt and freshly ground black pepper 15ml ( ( 1 tsp ) fresh chopped parsley 1 bunch fresh basil ( optional ) Fry onion and garlic in oil until soft . |
| 22 | 25g/1oz butter 2 × 15ml/tbsp olive oil 1 large onion , finely sliced 2 cloves garlic , crushed 1,600g/3½lb boneless shoulder of pork , cut into 4cm/1½in dice 185g/6&oz can pimentos 200g/7oz pack pimento stuffed olives , drained ( approx 125g/4oz ) 400g/14ox can chopped tomatoes 1 × 5ml/tsp paprika 1 × 15ml/tbsp tomato paste salt and freshly ground black pepper sugar to taste , if required |
| 23 | Bidding was kept lively by a large number of Italian clients who according to one organiser all arrived in open Porsches with Milan number plates and invariably occupied front row seats ‘ flamboyant but not the very rich sort of Italians , you understand ’ , he said . |
| 24 | The Wagner Development Group ended its deliberations last week with the launch of its third report Positive Answers , and immediately heard junior health minister Tim Yeo tell delegates the government would not be following up on its key proposals . |
| 25 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 26 | Referral for hearing tests revealed that he had recurrent otitis media and consequently had intermittent hearing loss . |
| 27 | A comprehensive and fully illustrated hard back book on ‘ The Technique of Lace ’ takes a look at a wide variety of lace patterns and designs which can be knitted on the Japanese knitting machines . |
| 28 | Teddy all made up to go out was a cross between Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth — her red-gold hair a mass of curls , false eye-lashes long enough to sweep the streets , face entirely out of a box ( courtesy of the American PX ) , and fully fashioned grey silk stockings which were strictly not Waaf issue . |
| 29 | To protect itself , Company A , at the instigation of Company B , its parent company , falsely asserted that these accounts were the responsibility of the plaintiffs and wrongfully seized certain metal warrants belonging to the plaintiffs . |
| 30 | Personal computer sales , handled by Technology Plc and newly merged Scandinavian company Nokia Data Systems nearly matched the joint returns from ICL 's mainframe and Unix business . |