Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we arrived home Ben asked Montagu Slater to write the libretto ; he was a playwright and had worked in films , and Ben had written incidental music for a number of his Left Theatre productions , including a very well-XXXX received play called Stay Down Miner , during the thirties . |
| 2 | The prime example discussed by Stepp and Michalski involved classifying simple pictures of goods trains . |
| 3 | In recent years , former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and President Franois Mitterrand were able to establish French leadership in the European Community because the separation of East and West had restricted German initiatives and recalled German guilt . |
| 4 | We were not convinced , however , that his plan to reintroduce small unitary authorities would foster the vision and expertise needed to meet this challenge . |
| 5 | Both are concerned with an explicit recognition in managing a workforce that the way in which the organisation is structured , work is delegated and responsibility apportioned have direct relevance to managing performance . |
| 6 | With the two sections of the National Insurance Act , however , Lloyd George and Churchill had introduced new approaches to two major social problems , which were of lasting importance . |
| 7 | Anne and Sarah began to attend modern dances and were an immediate success with the young men who went there . |
| 8 | In spite of becoming very busy from August onwards , because of heighened international tension and a heavy commitment to the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , RAF Stations and personnel managed to give substantial help to Wings Appeal . |
| 9 | The raft was defective and settlement occurred causing serious cracks to appear in the houses . |
| 10 | Annie and Kelly sat drinking sweet tea in a noisy café in the centre of Newmarket . |
| 11 | This was still a minor office with little independent authority , and Duncombe continued to play second fiddle to the successive lords treasurer with whom he served . |
| 12 | In 1964 , dolphin populations off the USSR 's area of the Black Sea collapsed , and by 1966 , the USSR , Bulgaria , and Romania had prohibited all dolphin hunting . |
| 13 | Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria , but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies . |
| 14 | As a final bonus , he could pass on his expertise in the saddle and both Tamar and Victoria had made rapid progress under his guidance . |
| 15 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 16 | In most of the West European colonial powers the alliance between mob and capital to form a bridge between nationalism and racism worked to ship internal pressures abroad to the colonies . |
| 17 | The protest came out weakly and Isabel strove to inject some firmness into her voice . |
| 18 | Queen Isabella and Mortimer sought to gain popular support by a conciliatory policy regarding the forest . |
| 19 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 20 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 21 | They were talking as the horses climbed the low hill on which church and manor stood facing each other , when Carrie suddenly exclaimed , ‘ What 's that light in the window of the manor , Seb ? ’ |
| 22 | Perdita and Trace had detested each other on sight and , together with Randy , Trace spent a lot of time when they were n't screwing , winding Perdita up . |
| 23 | Venetian Romanesque architecture was dominated by the city 's eastern contacts and Byzantium continued to have more influence than Lombardy or Pisa . |
| 24 | Yeltsin and Gorbachev had held separate meetings with military commanders on Dec. 11 , apparently in an attempt to ensure armed forces support for the new Commonwealth . |
| 25 | Swanson and Percival continued to show excellent form , leading home their respective fields . |
| 26 | Part of this settlement was to create a Servian buffer state , and both Sigismund and Murad agreed to recognise Djuradj Branković as the legitimate ruler of an independent Serbia . |
| 27 | Luch and Ruari had to supply ten pounds of wax , to polish the bulwarks . |
| 28 | Willie and Zach managed to see each other every day as well as weekends and odd evenings and they , the twins and George would walk and play in the fields together . |
| 29 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 30 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |