Example sentences of "and [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet investigations of the writing process suggest that there is more than one way to salvation and that what suits one pupil may well hinder another — the protracted act of discovery and experiment that Thomas was engaged in with his piece of wood writings may well be a complete turn-off for another child . |
| 2 | Now so what you 're going to do you work together but I would prefer you in twos and threes I think third person 's redundant . |
| 3 | On the one hand we 're really concerned about increase in violent crime er and we 've got to ask ourselves ‘ where did those people who are now in their late teens and twenties and thirties who commit those sort of crimes , where did they , where did it all begin from ? ’ |
| 4 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 5 | I have an aversion to noisy cameras , and this one rings several decibels before it 's done with selecting and focusing the lens , and winding on the film . |
| 6 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 7 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 8 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the first year , students take one unit which examines contemporary issues in development , and another which studies recent developments in Geography . |
| 11 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 14 | In this poem , as in 85 , the Poet claims that his Muse is ‘ tongue-tied ’ ; in 76 , 102 , 103 and 105 he gives conflicting reasons , all ingenious , why he writes such repetitive or uninspired poetry . |
| 15 | Even a courtier admitted that although he was tactful and judicious he possessed less character , less resolution and less intelligence than his father . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Between 1895 and 1898 he published regular articles in the Studio . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 22 | In 1648 and 1649 he encouraged disgruntled Virginia Puritans to settle in Maryland . |
| 23 | ‘ There is something innately obscene about the identification of cruel and sadistic violence with entertainment , and all who condone this situation carry responsibility for the death of this child . ’ |
| 24 | But believe me , we will silence any and all who put this Dominion at risk . ’ |
| 25 | Most of the major advances in the social sciences over the last two centuries , including the work of Freud and Marx , should lead us to be suspicious of any equation of importance with surface , suggesting that there are other forces both historical and unconscious which underlie this arena of language and linguistically articulated intent . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | We can also draw diagrams complementary to Figs 10.1 and 10.2 which show tidal accelerations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson . |