Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three Englishmen ventured north , bought into , and are now building up the 200-year-old Scottish printer Pillans & Wilson . |
| 2 | Cast a cold eye on National Savings Bank or ordinary accounts ( 2.5–5% ) , and National Savings Certificates which have come to the end of their five year period and are now paying only the ‘ general extension rate ’ of 5.01% . |
| 3 | Younger folk had grown impatient and were now signalling frantically a hundred yards ahead . |
| 4 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 5 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , the melting point is sharp and is not lowered then the two samples are identical . |
| 7 | It 's very nasty vapours and has got a fairly low flashpoint and is unfortunately carried on the motorways every day of the week . ’ |
| 8 | Paladino , 27 , runs a taxi business by day , becomes a club bouncer at night and is currently thinking over an offer from Midlands promoter Ron Gray to turn pro in the boxing game ! |
| 9 | Active Memory Technology Ltd , the ICL Plc parallel processing spin-out , has fallen into the hands of receiver Price Waterhouse and is currently tying up a rescue bid from a mystery American millionaire tycoon . |
| 10 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 11 | Twoflower , meanwhile , had thrown back the lid of the Luggage and was hastily pulling out a heavy black cube . |
| 12 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |