Example sentences of "[adj] and [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 2 | Analysing the relationship may — and will - be a painful process but it is also one of healing , for if you can admit to yourself that the relationship was not perfect and was in many ways extremely frustrating , then the sense of loss and abandonment will no longer be as painful . |
| 3 | Jones was struck especially by Citizen Thelwall , who , wearing the white hat of the radical , got up after dinner and ‘ talked so loud and was in such a Passion that Jones was frightened ’ . |
| 4 | They were made between 1973 and 1975 and are on all this month ( and until 27 June ) . |
| 5 | The very old and the young have a weaker mind than those in their prime and are for this reason more vulnerable to spirit attack . |
| 6 | And we may well agree that there is little else that one can imagine existing alone and being of any great value . |
| 7 | It would be arrogant and is in any case unnecessary , to imply that the study of language is unique in that respect . |
| 8 | Yet he was active in the early stages of the Anglo-Scottish war after 1542 and was amongst those at the English victory at Solway Moss , but he died ( it is not clear where ) 18 October 1544 . |
| 9 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 10 | collapsing and is in such a state . |