Example sentences of "and [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 2 | Comedian and writer Ben Miller has the answers , and has incorporated them into a tribute performance , Gone With Noakes ( playing at Covent Garden 's Donmar Warehouse on Dec 4–5 ) . |
| 3 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 4 | Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre . |
| 5 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 6 | Postscript originated from Adobe Systems , and has become something of a de facto standard for desktop publishing . |
| 7 | The new giant tractor has brought a welcome boost in power to West End Farm 's farming and contracting businesses and has become something of a local landmark . |
| 8 | The hazardous nature of any such attempts at interchangeability or piecemeal transplant forms a recurrent theme in the literature , and has become something of a commonplace . |
| 9 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 10 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 11 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 12 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 13 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 14 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 15 | This particular project began in Liverpool in 1976 and has established itself as a national model for radical working-class adult education . |
| 16 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 17 | Pilar Wayne now says she ca n't afford the upkeep on ‘ La Roca ’ in exclusive Newport Beach , California , and has put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 18 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |
| 19 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 20 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 21 | Dr Halden is married to my daughter and has taken her on an extended tour of the Continent . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 23 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 24 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 25 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 26 | But she had never felt at home with him , perhaps because , with his confident good looks and the air of arrogance in his bearing , he seemed both to represent and to have absorbed something of the mystery and potency of the power he operated . |
| 27 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 28 | In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced . |
| 29 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 30 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |