Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she is learning to walk again and has already had a few day visits home . |
| 2 | The Department of Education and Science has welcomed the report and has already promulgated a similar view in its own Green Paper Science Education in Schools , issued in June 1982 . |
| 3 | Under the agreement , Olivetti is to distribute the two new devices and has also acquired a significant minority investment in Eo though the exact figure has not been disclosed . |
| 4 | It is part funded by membership subscription , and part government funded at present , and has also won a European Community grant . |
| 5 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 6 | Although former minisupercomputer maker Elxsi Corp disappeared from radar screens a year or three back , its Tata Elxsi Ltd former joint venture with the giant Indian conglomerate J R Tata Sons & Co Pte Ltd of Bombay is still in existence , and has just announced a joint venture with Mountain View , California-based Silicon Graphics Inc to expand their collaboration for the Indian market . |
| 7 | This 40 Minutes Special ( BBC 2 ) was produced by Agnieszka Piotrowska , who never makes a bad programme and has n't made a better one than this . |
| 8 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 9 | Black could operate on the right for there is no challenge now from Robbie Dennison ( Wolverhampton Wanderers ) who did not sign his new contract until earlier this week and has not played a first team game this season — missing out also on the club 's Scandinavian tour . |
| 10 | After taking a direct hit on the right temple , Mr Loaf walked off and has not graced a British stage since . |
| 11 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
| 12 | In spite of her angry and tearful protests Charles insisted on giving the token to the woman who had haunted their courtship and has since cast a long shadow across their married life . |
| 13 | The EC is a topical example of regional cooperation , which was initially a free trade area and has since evolved a European Monetary System , combining different inflation rates with relatively stable real exchange rates . |
| 14 | He learnt the lesson well , and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work . |
| 15 | Derrida 's famous paper ‘ Structure , Sign and Play ’ aroused much excitement when it was delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins in 1966 , and has since acquired a mythological significance as the fountainhead of American deconstruction . |
| 16 | Again in contrast to Ballantyne , the episode is discussed afterwards amongst the boys , and has clearly made a lasting impression on them . |
| 17 | It produces items in almost every conceivable quality , size and design , and has skilfully adapted a wide range of Persian workshop and village compositions to the requirements of Western furnishing tastes . |
| 18 | Gateshead has a large number of low-income families and has traditionally had a poor participation rate in further and higher education . |
| 19 | It has created enormous cities … and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble . |
| 21 | He works in the Industrial Engineering Department as a Graduate Trainee , and has recently attended a six week course at the Institute of Management in Nottingham . |
| 22 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |
| 23 | The company , which has four US and four European offices , has branched out further and has now established an Asia-Pacific operation for which it chose Singapore . |
| 24 | Flowers East made the brave step to East London several years ago and has now acquired an additional space of large proportions directly opposite its headquarters in Richmond Road . |
| 25 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 26 | But a leading Japanese poet , Shuntaro Tanikawa , has provided Rupert Sheldrake with an old Japanese rhyme , and has specially written a genuine poem and a nonsensical poem , all with the same rhyme and metre . |
| 27 | However , because so much ‘ neighbouring ’ has been rooted in the notion of mutual exchange , and has always involved a fine balance between closeness and distance , it is in some ways harder for the parties to adapt to a changed role than it is , for example , in a situation where the supporter is defined from the outset as a voluntary visitor . |
| 28 | The European Business Studies degree prepares students for the European fields of business activity , and has always attracted a high calibre of student with language skills and an urge to do business in the varied market places of Europe . |
| 29 | Morphologically it represents the most anterior region of the head and has secondarily acquired a basal hinged attachment . |
| 30 | The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters . |