Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later 10 opposition parties and groups issued a joint statement in which they denounced what they described as the over-representation of the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) on the commission . |
| 2 | Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs . |
| 3 | He was annoyed , he said , that deer forest managers were given the kid glove treatment while hillwalkers and climbers had the big stick of stiffer sanctions waved at them — such as no-go areas . |
| 4 | Marx pours scorn on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers , such as the utilitarians , who believed that ideas and values had no real significance but were a mere reflection of natural conditions . |
| 5 | The French and Germans watched the whole affair with much amusement . |
| 6 | Within six months of the blitz which had devastated the city centre , an exhibition of sketches and plans outlined a redesigned city centre , based on the principle of pedestrian shopping precincts , zoned development and an inner ring road . |
| 7 | Professional journals and institutions quickened the international flow of information . |
| 8 | Beamish was slowly grasping his newfound trade and , with Pybus at his side , players and supporters saw the coming season as the dawning of a new age . |
| 9 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 10 | On Dec. 17 in The Hague , 45 states and organizations signed the European Energy Charter ( agreed in November 1991 — see p. 38602 ) , described as " the key to unlocking the resources of the former Soviet bloc countries " in which 35-40 per cent of the world 's gas , half its coal and half its petroleum were located . |
| 11 | Many repealers and regulationists shared a common culture and held similar positions on class and social behaviour — one of the characteristics of mid-Victorian consensus politics . |
| 12 | His dark hair and eyes made a good foil for Breeze , whose skin was very fair , and whose short brown curls gleamed like raw silk in the strong morning sunshine . |
| 13 | The Welsh and Scots adopted a different tactic which was more in keeping with their less explicitly political expression of nationality . |
| 14 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 15 | Also last season we were due to play Premier Division side Derris Vale in the Cup and doubters said a heavy defeat looked inevitable . |
| 16 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 17 | Instead , we see among contributors and books reviewed a gradual move towards some writers whom Eliot later would explicitly acknowledge as influential in the development of his own social thought — men such as Christopher Dawson and V. A. Demant . |
| 18 | One matter on which all three members of the court founded their judgments was that in that case the path and steps formed an essential part of the means of access to the house , in that it was the only way in . |
| 19 | In short , even a genuinely mulitilateral world system effectively dominated by an oligarchy of the important states , such as was envisaged in the Security Council as originally set up , would not be an international system in which most nations and nation-states played a significant role . |
| 20 | Beauty counters and salons kept a tight watch , so it would be impossible . |
| 21 | Ferns , club mosses and gymnosperms continued the tree-like growth of the Devonian period , when a moderate climate became warmer , and this dense foliage locked up the carbon as our present coal deposits , thus increasing even further the oxygen content of the atmosphere . |
| 22 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 23 | Yet some , particularly purists , believed that the growing rapprochement between medics and moralists necessitated a serious re-think of attitudes towards state medicine . |
| 24 | It was a different story around the rest of the country , where business was brisk and supermarkets reported the busiest day of the year . |
| 25 | British , Anglo-Indians and Indians did a splendid job in receiving us . |
| 26 | Today Patients and visitors had a similar reaction . |
| 27 | It happened that this was also the form advocated by Vuk Karadžić in Serbia , and for a time Ljudevit Gaj ( 1809–72 ) , the leader of the Illyrian Movement in Croatia , warmed to the idea that Serbs and Croats shared a common language and culture . |
| 28 | Serbs and Croats used the same language , and readily married each other , especially in the cities . |
| 29 | The Blarney Stone opened in May , after builders and contractors converted the burnt-out shell of a nightclub into a pub with three bars . |
| 30 | In early May the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced a joint study with manufacturers , network operators and broadcasters to investigate the matter . |