Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to establish the legitimacy of the political system after the years of repression and apathy meant that previously excluded groups such as the organized working class had to be brought into the political process . |
| 2 | A national survey of parent education and support found that all too often parents were seen as falling into one of two camps : either they were coping adequately and were considered to need no assistance , or they fell below an accepted level of ‘ good parenting ’ and became the focus of immediate state intervention ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Further , under the new Act , LEAs rapidly expanded their own providing roles and Fieldhouse estimates that nationally there were about 5,000 evening institutes in 1947 and by 1950 more than 11,000 existed providing a wide range of social and recreational classes most of which were accommodated through the evening use of school premises . |
| 4 | Painful inflammation of the prostate is one of the main reasons that men under 50 consult their doctors , and experts believe that as many as three-quarters of some groups of men aged 30 to 50 suffer from it in some form . |
| 5 | The sub-plot has the CIA agitating and funding strikes that eventually topple Allende . |
| 6 | Church-going was being abandoned in favour of the new religion of DIY and other time-consuming pursuits , and research showed that only 3 per cent of the population still indulged in the great British institution of the Sunday lie-in , paper included . |
| 7 | Engineers and electricians recognised that clearly when they voted earlier this year to join together in one union . |
| 8 | This hateful thing had taken place , and Frankie knew that somehow he must be to blame . |
| 9 | Here , they stopped , the soldiers trying to hide their fear and Corbett sensed that even Sir James Selkirk was frightened to be there . |
| 10 | And now they would be dancing , as we said , dancing right down , with the elegance and economy of movement that only exhaustion brings , the careful and expert moves that only come at that particular time in the morning . |
| 11 | Her mother would not come into the arena with her , strip naked for combat , risk her life and her neutrality for Maggie , and Maggie recognised that tonight with a new sadness . |
| 12 | ‘ We shall bury him , ’ said the Oak , and Moy saw that already the Tree Spirits were scrabbling at the earth , their roots scraping and shovelling , so that , quite soon , a deep trench was opened . |
| 13 | But then the moon slid behind a cloud and the images vanished and Fenella thought that perhaps she had been mistaken . |
| 14 | For instance , a study by Fussler and Simon reported that over half the monographs accessioned by the University of Chicago Library during the years 1944–53 had not been borrowed during the period 1953–8 . |
| 15 | Hathor 's drunkenness was clearly beneficial to men and Re ordered that henceforth festivals honouring Hathor should include drink , an appropriate provision for a goddess usually presiding over music , dancing and love . |
| 16 | In a classic study of product development , Booz-Allen and Hamilton reported that only two out of ten new products were a commercial success and that seven out of eight hours of technical effort failed to result in commercial success ( Jain 1984 ) . |
| 17 | Convenience and economics mean that virtually all acetic acid plants being built rely on the Monsanto process . |
| 18 | Reports that reached Amnesty International in September and October indicated that more than 2,000 people , many of them civilians , have been rounded up in southern cities and towns and transferred to unknown destinations . |
| 19 | Ianthe was reminded of her meeting with the nun in the Underground the day before and Sophia remarked that nowadays some of them seemed hardly to be cloistered at all . |
| 20 | For more than three decades health authorities in the United States , Britain and Australia insisted that only a lunatic fringe of cranks , flat-Earthers and right-wing reactionaries opposed fluoridation . |
| 21 | Dolphins were frequently observed in the nets , and Greenpeace estimated that even the reduced fleet of 20 vessels probably killed some 4600 dolphins during the season . |
| 22 | Bransford and Franks found that only sentences which contained one piece of information , or information from different sets , could be reliably identified as not having been heard before . |
| 23 | Every Lord Chancellor , especially if he holds office as long as did Halsbury , will make some mistakes ( and Heuston suggests that as many as three of the six were ‘ unlucky ’ appointments ) but Halsbury 's experience may suggest that the proportion of bad appointments is likely to be statistically higher amongst appointments made from the Lord Chancellor 's political associates . |
| 24 | Davis and Moore assume that only a limited number of individuals have the talent to acquire the skills necessary for the functionally most important positions . |
| 25 | But the weather took a turn for the worse and Lawford suggested that maybe they ought to wait until morning . |
| 26 | Mercuric chloride was selected because it is a growth inhibitor , and Boyd found that homoeopathically prepared potencies of mercuric chloride enhanced the speed at which the diastase converted the starch when compared with controls which did not contain the mercuric chloride potency . |
| 27 | Chinese parents and teachers complain that today 's children are being spoilt . |
| 28 | ‘ I do , ’ said Finn , recoiling , and Lydia thought that here was another ludicrous irony : that the less you were in love with someone the more you could enchant and ensnare them . |
| 29 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 30 | It was impossible for Stan to hide the fact that he was pleased she was n't going to be around , and Kate accepted that here indeed was yet another male chauvinist jealous and unhappy at having his territory invaded by a woman . |