Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 2 | In such an archetypal world , where ‘ good ’ is constantly and insecurely balanced in an eternal struggle against ‘ evil ’ , the objective explication of the rituals and symbols which surround and mystify police work can seem tantamount to a treasonable act . |
| 3 | Captures the angry collapsing mood of the country as Allende 's left wing government is threatened and eventually deposed by a right wing junta . |
| 4 | Furthermore they include provisions for the assessment of prior learning and portability of credits that can be accumulated and eventually applied towards a formal qualification . |
| 5 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 6 | In this way the Church , as in many other parts of the western empire , would have formed the bridge by which a moderately civilized Romano-British community was maintained and eventually transformed into an English one . |
| 7 | Prudent and orderly , uncompromising in his views on life and art , and instinctively reserved in a postwar world which contradicted them extensively , Frampton was a man of humour , courtesy , and charm , who unbent when he sensed that his deep feeling for beauty , order , and sound technique was shared . |
| 8 | Until the 1840s the supply of coal from the area to London was tightly and effectively controlled as a virtual monopoly . |
| 9 | The house is large , white and elegantly proportioned with a south-facing porch equipped with comfortable chairs for guests to relax on . |
| 10 | It is this sharp awareness of an inner process which will release men from the constraints of time , that makes those who make enormous emotional investment in material enterprises look incredibly foolish : Heaven is the only true object of human desire and it must be particularly and discreetly nourished in a continual process of growth . |
| 11 | Talbot looked at Dr Wickram who , in startling contrast to Benson , was thin , dark and immaculately dressed in a blue suit , white button-down collar and a black tie , the funereal hue of which went rather well with the habitual severity of his expression , and said : ‘ Does your interest in nuclear physics extend to nuclear weaponry , Dr Wickram ? ’ |
| 12 | Evaluation and change are logically and methodologically linked in a fundamental way . |
| 13 | It was attacked and badly damaged by a patrolling Hurricane , Flt.Lt . |
| 14 | I put another case in front of it , an empty one , and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book . |
| 15 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 16 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 17 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 18 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 19 | It was more than likely that their hotel room would be bugged and perhaps fitted with a see-through mirror . |
| 20 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 21 | Moreover , the pre-arranged trade is reported and perhaps published as a competitively-determined transaction , when it is not in fact a genuine product of the competitive forces of supply and demand on the exchange . |
| 22 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 23 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 24 | In 1293 he was committed to the Tower for a second time , perhaps for misconduct in the service of Queen Eleanor , and only released for a second fine of 1,000 marks . |
| 25 | Their consistent support for the new Israeli state reflected the existence of an American Jewish community — wealthy , strong in voting power , and highly organized as a political pressure group . |
| 26 | Ultra-modern and apparently inspired by a Thirties liner , it houses JJ 's , the best night spot in town . |
| 27 | What is common to all , however , is that an emphasis is placed on peaceful interaction among the members of the society , and this emphasis is cosmologically constructed and morally embedded in a cosmological universe of meaning . |
| 28 | Children were often given confusing information , not taken to the funeral and generally left with a poor understanding of the finality of the event . |
| 29 | Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle ! |
| 30 | The design and development of many of these products was undertaken by large groups of workers and not limited to a small technocratic elite . |