Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 2 | These phenomena included ‘ the unexampled diffusion of wealth ’ ; ‘ uniformity of prices ’ ; ‘ an ‘ independence ’ of manners ’ ; ‘ the ‘ realistic ’ tendency in art and behaviour ’ ; ‘ the unprecedented growth of population ’ ; ‘ the astounding cheapness of most necessaries ’ ; ‘ the universal and sometimes frenzied spirit of competition ’ ; the ending of feudalism and the introduction of freedom . |
| 3 | Mal could of course revert to right back , but that would mean dropping the speedy and much improved Gary Fleming ! |
| 4 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 5 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 6 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 7 | This allowed a large amount of compatibility between software and peripherals of the existing and newly developed IBM machines . |
| 8 | Armstrong could also be among the all-weather winners with the improving and well weighted Quattro in the Ascom Tele-Nova Handicap at Lingfield tomorrow . |
| 9 | On the return from Venice you will again fly ( or coach ) , or having enjoyed three extra nights in a superb hotel in Venice , you will return on the world-famous and exclusively chartered Orient Express train . |
| 10 | It shows the crowned and richly robed Christ smiling beneficently as he hovers orant against a cross that floats above a Eucharistic chalice . |
| 11 | Certainly this was the purpose of the protracted and much resented Quo Warranto enquiry into private franchises and liberties , an enquiry which extended from 1274 until 1294 when baronial opposition finally forced its abandonment . |
| 12 | It was not simply the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments for and against abolition which exercised and divided its members , but the proper role of the Government on what was seen as a question of conscience . |
| 13 | The issue played an important part in the recent and well publicised Barlow Clowes affair , and resulted in the case . |