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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After taking a direct hit on the right temple , Mr Loaf walked off and has not graced a British stage since . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Again in contrast to Ballantyne , the episode is discussed afterwards amongst the boys , and has clearly made a lasting impression on them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Gateshead has a large number of low-income families and has traditionally had a poor participation rate in further and higher education . |
| 16 | It has created enormous cities … and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Morphologically it represents the most anterior region of the head and has secondarily acquired a basal hinged attachment . |
| 24 | It forms a bypass around Crowmarsh Gifford and had previously had a good safety record . |
| 25 | It was a tragedy that the very regions that needed support and had previously enjoyed a generous level of regional assistance suffered those cuts . |
| 26 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 27 | Luce was about to ask him what he meant , when she recalled him saying his father 's marriage had been arranged , and had n't proved a happy one , and bit her tongue . |
| 28 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 29 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 30 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |