Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The president has at his disposal an array of bargaining counters that he must ceaselessly and skilfully deploy in countless negotiating situations .
2 These principles were readily accepted and widely implemented in new developments from the 1960s onwards .
3 It provided a discordant note , for example , in the Pop Art exhibition organised by Norman Rosenthal for the Royal Academy and widely seen in other countries .
4 It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level .
5 During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences .
6 Intelligent , beautiful , and widely read in four languages , she cultivated men of ‘ unquestionable genius ’ like Sir Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli [ qq.v. ] , whom she compared with Burns : his ‘ Lament for Maria ’ ( 1809 ? ) was probably written in response to her death .
7 Hunapipi represents the Earth Mother and the cult is probably the most important and widely spread of any in northern Australia .
8 Solomon " Jesus " Hawala , the former head of PLAN security and widely accused of such crimes , was appointed chief of staff of the new Namibian Defence Force , despite the reported opposition of Nujoma and Geingob .
9 South of the village is an area known locally as ‘ Hills and Holes ’ — deserted and overgrown quarry pits where the coarse limestone called ‘ ragstone ’ was quarried by the Romans and widely used in medieval times .
10 Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile .
11 Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels .
12 The Irishman had the choice of the two horses in Ascot 's H & T Walker Chase last month , and successfully opted for Deep Sensation .
13 An innovative solution to protect key facilities within the Channel Tunnel was developed and successfully installed against tight deadlines , resulting in further orders for 1993 .
14 Set up in 1984 , Radio RIN currently broadcasts for 20 hours a day and successfully competes with many of the country 's commercial stations .
15 Even if it can be established beyond all reasonable doubt that certain cultural items were indeed originally developed in one place and thence diffused to another , by whatever means ( not excluding industrial espionage ) , this may have no relevance whatsoever to their significance in the new environment .
16 Delayed gastric emptying , together with reduced gastric mobility , can augment the perception of fullness and thereby contribute to further dieting .
17 The subframes are designed to deform in the same manner as the robust bodyshell and thereby contribute to this energy absorption .
18 He congratulated the Association on its decision to affiliate to Congress and thereby join with half a million other workers and their families .
19 And in spite of the compromise , five-sixths of the 30,000 Vichy troops in Syria and Lebanon were permitted to return to France and thereby lost to Free France .
20 Is English law right to define rape in this way , and thereby to exclude from this offence such conduct as forced oral sex ( fellatio ) , cunnilingus , and buggery ?
21 Research methods are to be treated as a collection of tools designed and thereby suited for particular jobs .
22 Whilst the basic facts about drinking are well known and mostly based on common sense , some of the issues surrounding alcohol abuse are a lot more complex .
23 Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel .
24 He led the Open at Muirfield by four shots and eventually came from two down with four holes to play to beat John Cook .
25 He was forced to resign , and eventually convicted of four theft and seven forgery charges .
26 One example presented involved the production of a jet that moves at km and eventually connected with another footpoint 400,000 km away .
27 In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff .
28 A tubular form is much more effective and eventually worms with such a shape appeared .
29 Meanwhile the separated and isolated prisoners , having no ‘ back regions ’ in which to hide , reflect on their sins and eventually emerge as reformed characters .
30 As his own prose essays on ‘ Nature ’ were being admired by the adolescent girls in the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel , and approved by the minister , by his father and by Ashcroft Noble , and eventually published in sectarian and national journals , Edward discovered the English poets , first slowly under imposition and then , in a rush , in his father 's wide-ranging library .
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