Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 2 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 3 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 4 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 5 | The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days . |
| 6 | Charlie was already up , washed and dressed when a man with two stripes on his sleeve marched in . |
| 7 | This is true of all the special need problems discussed in this book , but particularly so in the case of the mentally ill and handicapped when a breakdown in normal social relationships is often part of the actual disorder . |
| 8 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 9 | The disorganized and diverse activity that precedes the formation of a science eventually becomes structured and directed when a single paradigm becomes adhered to by a scientific community . |
| 10 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 11 | The bite marks are very deep and indicate that a large powqerful dog like a lurcher made them |
| 12 | Pressure for Cabinet changes had increased after faction leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) met on Dec. 11 and resolved that a reshuffle should take place before the end of the year . |
| 13 | The transactional test of market counterparty relates only to the particular transaction concerned and applies where a person deals with the firm as a principal or as an intermediary for an unidentified client ( or , alternatively , an undisclosed intermediary ) , if he does so in the course of investment business of the same description as the investment business the firm is carrying on with him . |
| 14 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 15 | He pulled it farther open and saw that a bunch of quill pens in an elastic band had been moved . |
| 16 | Backbencher Mr Sijaona stated that the TBC was uneconomic and recommended that a committee of enquiry be set up to examine possible alternatives . |
| 17 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |