Example sentences of "and [verb] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 2 | He does a lot of celebrity after-dinner speaking like Franky Worthington Frank seems to appear in every charity penalty shootout or random presentation at Elland Road before a game , usually in the company of a page three girl and clad in an appalling 70s suit and to massive cheers from the Kop : - ) . |
| 3 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 4 | At first the walls seemed to be stacked with dense , stocky , motionless objects , but as the nightmare progressed , they began to writhe and squirm in an eerie , soundless dance . |
| 5 | It 's curious how someone like Pat Kane mixes being staunch SNP and singing in an American croon . |
| 6 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 7 | He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London . |
| 8 | One of the boys in question leaned forward and drawled in an upper-hive accent , ‘ Shame , having to hack off one 's pinkie to say sorry to one 's boss for a blunder . |
| 9 | They called for Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait and to pay reparations for damage done , while declaring that the Palestinian question was the " first issue for the Arab world " and incorporating in an eight-point " Doha declaration " a clear expression of " complete support " and " absolute help " for the " historic uprising of the Palestinian people " . |
| 10 | The task of political sociology is to define these issues and problems in a rigorous way , to describe and analyse the wider structural and historical context , to enquire into the causes of political events , and to indicate in an imaginative rather than restrictive fashion the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 11 | Defensive routines exist ; they are undiscussable ; they proliferate and grow in an underground manner ; the social pollution is hard to identify until something occurs that blows things open . |
| 12 | THE woman believed to be the world 's oldest citizen celebrated her 118th birthday singing and laughing in an old folk 's home at Arles , in France . |
| 13 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 14 | Because of their different masses the base states would move at slightly different velocities and mix in an oscillatory fashion , producing first one type of neutrino and then another . |
| 15 | Skipper Dave Williams came to the rescue with 50 not out and featured in an unbroken seventh wicket stand of 75 with Simon Moorcroft ( 21 not out ) to see their side home with five overs left . |
| 16 | 30ml of your own perfume are prepared and bottled in an elegant glass bottle with its own cream silk and maroon case . |
| 17 | When combined and presented in an Advanced level question it is difficult to see the underlying historical problems . |
| 18 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 19 | London has seen the disappearance of more than three quarters of a million manufacturing jobs in 20 years : an aggregate figure masking stagnation and decline in an inner south-east zone , and growth in the west , in part related to Heathrow Airport , as a ‘ high-tech ’ crescent ( Hall et al . , |
| 20 | One important factor seems to be the tendency of the cat to ‘ jump up unexpectedly ’ and to behave in an unpredictable way when at close quarters . |
| 21 | Pop music had temporarily forgotten its role of addressing a young audience about its own concerns , and instead entered one of its periodic fits of mawkishness and middle-aged retrenchment , personified in the superstar of the moment — a gargantuan , bearded figure , shrouded in kaftans , precariously balanced on tiny slippers and warbling in an implausible soprano . |
| 22 | Also I wish she would drop the ‘ lor ra , lor ra ’ business and speak in an ordinary voice . |
| 23 | Rosenberg was killed on the western front 1 April 1918 and buried in an unmarked grave . |
| 24 | They seemed a threat because they looked odd and acted in an odd way . |
| 25 | Harvest herbs on a dry day and hang in an airy , cool spot to dry for later use |
| 26 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |
| 27 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 28 | The Interludium de Clerico et Puella , " The interlude of the clerk and the girl " , appears to be a fragment of the tale of Dame Sirith , presented quite explicitly as the text of a play and preserved in an early fourteenth-century copy in a manuscript in the collection of the British Library ( Additional MS 23986 ) . |
| 29 | But I mean I suppose you get those pressures in an ordinary school say if you go and teach in an inner city school you 've got … you know Asian mothers . |
| 30 | After some time she was removed from her mounting pedestal , stripped down to bare metal and repainted in an accurate B-model colour scheme . |