Example sentences of "and [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also indoor pelota courts , called trinquets , which , to the lay eye anyway , can look like royal tennis courts , and where yet other forms of pelota are played , usually professionally ( I well remember , from my youth , that the then world real tennis champion was a Basque , a celebrated player who no doubt grew up democratically playing pelota and then switched easily enough to the very exclusive game of real or royal tennis ) . |
| 2 | Demonstrations were also held on March 31 in Cheltenham ( where a Conservative Party Central Council conference was being attended by the Prime Minister and where over 50 arrests were made ) and in Glasgow . |
| 3 | Disappointment at Cheltenham , where rain stopped play in today 's County Championship … and where yesterday wicket-keeper Jack Russell heard he 'd lost his place in the England side for the Headingly Test . |
| 4 | This polarisation causes the debate to stall , but in a world where unemployment is unlikely to fall fast or far and where so much work needs doing the idea may be worth exploring further . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1970s , central and local government were responsible for the publication of a range of plans and reports designed to re-invigorate an area whose economic base might have disappeared , but one with tremendous opportunities and where almost 50,000 people still lived ( Ambrose , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Every serious practising critic knows a secret which is less often publicly discussed , namely , that there exists no ready-made corridor between the sealed chambers of stylistic investigation and that equally unventilated space in which the object of study is reconstituted as narrative structure . |
| 7 | Marx argues in many places , but most clearly in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy , that the source of the destruction of the capitalist system would come from the fact that the social system which itself had been created in order to work the factories and markets of capitalism would become increasingly incompatible with the technological requirements of these factories and markets , and that ultimately this incompatibility would lead to revolution . |
| 8 | In this process , strong clashes of will are inevitable , but with luck parents and children will come out of the experience confident that their security is not jeopardized by conflict , and that seemingly unmanageable feelings and impulses can be harnessed and contained . |
| 9 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 10 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 11 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 12 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the racism of the new racist is not so new and that even so-called red-necks justified segregation in deracialized terms ( Weigel and Howes , 1985 ; see also the criticisms of Sniderman and Tetlock , 1986a , 1986b ) . |
| 14 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 15 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 16 | It was like a ‘ ghost ship ’ — he used those words — the three masts standing black against the white of the low , snow-mantled line of the shore opposite and that enormously long bowsprit jutting out from the wooden hull of the ship ‘ like a lance ’ . |
| 17 | All we can say is that each theme demands its own particular treatment , and that however much change is introduced there should be a convincing sense of unity . |
| 18 | You walk in here with a bagful of goodies and that preposterously expensive bottle of wine , looking like shit would n't stick to your shoe , and want me to pretend that we 're married , we 're happy , and that it 's always happened like this . |
| 19 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 20 | He was a little shorter than myself , rather stocky with broad shoulders and that slightly duck-toed walk I find so attractive in athletic young men . |
| 21 | The plaintiff must prove that a duty of care was owed to him , that this was broken and that reasonably foreseeable damage was caused as a result . |
| 22 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 23 | Traditional corporate-planning theorists are said to ignore these facts , concluding that rational models lead to effective performance and that highly segmented organizations are really tightly coupled systems ( Weick , 1976 , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | It has now been confirmed , however , that Bt is a ubiquitous soil microorganism and that highly active strains of Bt can be found in a wide variety of environmental samples . |
| 25 | ‘ It has been estimated that British business is losing up to £1bn a year and that around 100,000 jobs have been lost as a result of this practice . ’ |
| 26 | He said that deforestation had increased by 75 per cent between 1985 and 1989 and that around 350,000 hectares of tropical forest were lost in Peru every year . |
| 27 | I suggest that voices should not be entirely dissociated from the social context in which they function and that therefore all texts in modern spoken languages should be regarded as having ‘ the implication of utterance ’ , and be referred to typical participants in some generalised context of situation . |
| 28 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 29 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 30 | For that reason alone I feel able to say that the decision of the justices was wrong and that therefore this court is able to substitute its own discretion . |