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

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1 Britain 's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports .
2 Cade founded no dynasty , but in his day he was a major operator in what R. H. Tawney [ q.v. ] called ‘ that seductive border region where business greases the wheels of politics and polite society smiles hopefully on both ’ .
3 These forms of repetitive and obsessive behaviour become so ingrained in the horse , that they become part of the horse 's ordinary behaviour even when it is not bored .
4 Heavy metal cretins , evil aliens , pan-global pop celebs and long-lost spaceships drifting forever in the airless void of deep space — yep , those ELDORADO plotlines are finally picking up .
5 Furthermore , selective isolation of vesicles from basolateral and apical membranes has often revealed a polarised distribution of these transport systems between the two membranes ( Figs 1–3 ) .
6 I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today .
7 The distinction between cognitive and valuational meaning follows naturally from our account of the way in which statements express beliefs or attitudes .
8 At the same time , the more able-bodied and work-fit patients had already been discharged from hospital , leaving behind a more seriously disabled group , who were unlikely ever to resume open employment , plus new short-term patients who needed assistance to return to their former work rather than the development of new skills .
9 However , the composition of the intraluminal thrombus formed in association with the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque is heterogeneous , consisting of platelet-rich material contiguous to the area of plaque rupture and erythrocyte-rich material extending both proximally and distally .
10 The de novo expression of ICAM-1 in phagocytes of the colonic mucosa and the raised soluble ICAM-1 in active Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis shown here are consistent with a condition of immunological activation induced by the local release of proinflammatory cytokines .
11 The town of Mardakert , in the north-eastern part of the enclave , came under attack and Azerbaijani forces took about 15 villages in the region .
12 For instance , it is compatible with the results of all actual and possible measurements to hold either that the universe is of a fixed size or that it is expanding at a constant rate .
13 In a different context , the issue of civil and political rights has also become increasingly prominent in the Western democracies .
14 Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct .
15 Town planning came into its own through a set of totally new factors , when a remarkable social and political consensus flowered briefly to provide authority and legitimation .
16 In recent years , partly as a result of exposure to the American literature and partly because of a desire to adopt a tough-minded approach towards power , British social and political scientists have increasingly been on the look out for signs of a similar system in Britain .
17 Remarkably , variables such as education and political discussion had relatively little influence on economic perceptions .
18 Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV 's reign .
19 As Japan 's legal and political system conformed increasingly to Western models it became more and more difficult for foreign governments to refuse to entrust their nationals to Japanese jurisdiction .
20 That level of public and political interest has never been rekindled .
21 This is especially likely in Scotland where strong feelings of cultural , linguistic and political autonomy have always existed .
22 But the relative strength of scale economies and political protectionism varies greatly between different communications fields .
23 Almost all aspects of life suffered under martial law which was used by consecutive governments to ban large public meetings and to crack down on any political groups and political parties working underground .
24 There is also the concern of the non-place-based or non-location specific networks of economic social and political relations acting directly and indirectly upon land users .
25 Overall , within the culture of antislavery economic boycott and free-produce activities worked much less significantly as a way of drawing in support than as a mark which some abolitionists chose to display of their antislavery identity .
26 If zoom shots have dated , multiple images and split-screen effects have long disappeared from regular use .
27 In this climate , a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably would n't go amiss .
28 Other dialects and creole languages differ systematically from Standard English ; their forms and phrases are not ‘ bad grammar ’ .
29 Furthermore , when it comes to the diffusion of short-term interest rate changes through the rest of the financial system , convention and administrative rules appear again .
30 Decentralization fragments the scope of radical change and raises the thresholds required for it to be achieved , a maxim which constitutional and administrative designers take seriously in many liberal democracies .
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