Example sentences of "and [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 2 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 3 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 4 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 5 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 6 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 7 | Even a courtier admitted that although he was tactful and judicious he possessed less character , less resolution and less intelligence than his father . |
| 8 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 9 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 10 | In 1927 and 1929 he designed stylish bodies for the Hillman 12 hp and then Straight Eight chassis ; as technical adviser to the Aircraft Investment Corporation , which he joined in 1929 , he shared in the design of the Segrave Meteor , an advanced four-seater , twin-engined monoplane . |
| 11 | Between 1895 and 1898 he published regular articles in the Studio . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there were gifts in kind : when Alfred Rowland was in Frome in the 1860s and 1870s he got free milk , and sometimes game and fowls . |
| 13 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 14 | In 1648 and 1649 he encouraged disgruntled Virginia Puritans to settle in Maryland . |
| 15 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 16 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 17 | Between 1914 and 1918 he spent six months among the Mailu and then two years among the people of the Trobriand Islands , both in south-east New Guinea . |
| 18 | Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson . |
| 19 | But in practice , not only did the courts accept Parliament 's power to make new laws , but a legal distinction was made between statutes which declared old law and those which created new law . |
| 20 | Vote-guidance seekers , and those who lacked strong preferences , found personal conversations useful in helping them decide how to vote . |
| 21 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 22 | By 1875 politics in the Czech countryside was conducted in more sophisticated terms , and those who expected national salvation from supposed kinsmen of ‘ people 's emperors ’ , ancient or modern , would probably feel a little embarrassed to admit it . |
| 23 | Greenfield 's comparable studies and conclusions are related to her research into different groups of Wolof children in Senegal , namely : ‘ rural unschooled ’ , ‘ bush schooled ’ and those who attended westernised schools in the cosmopolitan capital , Dakar . |
| 24 | After 6 months no significant difference was found between repetition rates of patients in the experimental group ( 24 per cent ) and those who received normal care ( 23 per cent ) . |
| 25 | A fact that becomes clear , however , was that the addition of heparin undoubtedly raised the incidence of bleeding ; those on no heparin had no severe bleeding , those who had subcutaneous heparin bled in about 0.5% of cases and those who received full heparin therapy bled in about 1% of cases . |
| 26 | No difference between the repetition rates of patients offered this service and those who received conventional care was detected at the one-year follow-up . |
| 27 | They denied that subjects possessed inalienable natural rights which would allow them to question the legitimacy of duly constituted authority , and those who maintained that sovereignty was vested in the Crown-in-Parliament did so in order to undermine Whig populist notions that the people could call their rulers to account . |
| 28 | Dressed in clothes subfusc and neat she favoured large hats with rampageous feathers . |
| 29 | The head of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme , Viktor Mikhailov , had said in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda on Jan. 31 that slightly over 100,000 people worked in the nuclear weapons programme , including 10,000-15,000 who had secret information and 2,000-3,000 who had important information on " sophisticated technologies . " |
| 30 | At 109 and 110 she flew first class on Concorde to New York . |