Example sentences of "and [subord] [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public support for the General Strike was most evident in Cambridge where students and members of the University were openly supportive and where Pateman arranged a WEA class in public speaking . |
| 2 | And although PEPs offer a tax shelter against income and capital gains tax , it is the income tax advantages which are the most significant for basic rate taxpayers . |
| 3 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 4 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 5 | And if parliament passes a law |
| 6 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 7 | And if Aherne has a criticism it is on the standards of school and club coaching . |
| 8 | Farmers are businessmen and since wages constitute a cost of production they will normally pay no more than prevailing conditions dictate . |
| 9 | Home ownership is high and while unemployment remains a factor , new developments have transformed parts of Stockton . |
| 10 | Later she taught English and history at Putney High School , and before marriage published a book about Lamb 's Essays of Elia and another book about a play by Browning . |
| 11 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 12 | And when Reggie sent a picture , hand-painted by Joyce , I felt best of all . |
| 13 | An extensive nerve network receives stimulation on the surfaces , and when stimulation exceeds a threshold , responses are generated by activation of an equally diffuse system of motor neurons . |
| 14 | Although , it did n't happen the ‘ seed had been planted ’ and when Anne-Marie became a student at S. Martin 's College , ‘ the seed , began to grow ! ’ . |
| 15 | No doubt because of his strictures on Hardy in After Strange Gods , and because he found Hardy 's view of life personally antipathetic — and when Eliot disliked a writer , as he disliked Aldous Huxley ( i.e. the work , not the man ) , and as he disliked Addison , and above all Goethe , his antipathy was intense and difficult to budge — he reacted in rather a lukewarm manner . |
| 16 | Easter is when Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is shown on television and when schoolchildren get a holiday — except when the educational authorities do not have their Easter holidays at Easter . |
| 17 | At that moment the coffee arrived , and as Luce opened a pack of sugar and stirred it in he remarked , ‘ I see you 're engaged , Miss Weston . ’ |
| 18 | He argues that the extent of this control has been exaggerated , and as evidence documents a number of cases of successful , although sometimes shortlived , insurgent labour movements that have taken place . |
| 19 | As the Programme became established , and as coordinators became a part of the staff team , they were increasingly judged on the practice they delivered rather than the power they seemed to represent . |
| 20 | The carbon then decays : and as C has a half life of 5570 years , it is suitable for dating organic remains . |
| 21 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |