Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His stepbrother , half-scandalized and wholly impressed by Herbert 's levity , never forgot the episode . |
| 2 | Now the fantasy involved in inhabiting the bodies of animals , previously alluded to , and skilfully exploited by writers like Kafka , certainly extends to a curiosity over what animals might be said to see , hear , smell , or otherwise sense . |
| 3 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 4 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 5 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |
| 6 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 8 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 9 | The drug , sulphadimidine , a prescription antibiotic used to control epidemics of respiratory disease in closely packed pig units , has been heavily and widely misused by UK farmers . |
| 10 | The technique of introducing a steam re-heat cycle ( in which steam is extracted from the turbine at an intermediate stage , raised to a higher temperature and reintroduced into the lower pressure stage ) had been pioneered in Britain by consultants and widely adopted in America . |
| 11 | Indeed , the Camilla tape lay dormant in British newsrooms for months until it was published overseas and widely circulated in Britain . |
| 12 | It may well be a ‘ parody ’ : the eight songs attributable to Bedyngham are between them supplied with no fewer than twenty-six different texts in four languages ; three remain doubtful as to their form , but two are ballades and three rondeaux , forms well known and widely practised in England at the time . |
| 13 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
| 14 | It is widely distributed in space among different individuals , and widely distributed in time over many generations . |
| 15 | One direct line is the emergence from the art teaching academies of the annual exhibition , begun in Paris in 1667 and widely imitated throughout Europe . |
| 16 | The principle behind the technique is now a familiar one and widely used by vaccine manufacturers to obtain large quantities of virus for the standard killed flu vaccines ( New Scientist , vol 56 , p 630 ) . |
| 17 | A variety of other publications were issued , the most complex being the re-launched Solicitors ' Regional Directories , in eight geographical volumes listing solicitors by category of work , and widely used by CABx and other agencies as a primary referral tool . |
| 18 | The CINVA Ram , a machine for compacting soil developed in Colombia in the 1950s and widely used in Africa and Latin America , is a good example of this effort . |
| 19 | Things are changing and work in public affairs will probably become as accepted and widely used in Britain as it is in the United States . |
| 20 | Client will , whether or not the Offer is made , promptly reimburse KPMG for all costs and expenses reasonably and properly incurred by KPMG in the fulfilment of its services hereunder in relation to the Offer ( including legal expenses and the expenses of any Approved Broker and , subject to Client 's prior consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed , the fees and expenses of other advisers , agents and consultants retained by KPMG for KPMG 's own benefit in connection with the Offer ) and all matters preparatory or ancillary thereto ( including any value added tax if applicable ) . |
| 21 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 22 | For all your sound recording , take care to ensure that your microphone leads and audio connections are electrically sound and properly screened from hum pick-up , so that the signal arrives at the camcorder in the best possible condition . |
| 23 | Perhaps the dressing down , promptly and properly administered to Mark Ramprakash , was also beneficial . |
| 24 | Its totally undistinguished architecture was largely and mercifully obscured by shop-fronts . |
| 25 | By the time he was eight , Michael Lee was an accomplished thief , and successfully touted for business for some of the street-girls , usually those who were either too ugly , raddled or diseased to approach a customer themselves . |
| 26 | Twelve prototypes were delivered within a fortnight and successfully fired in trials on January 21st . |
| 27 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 28 | Hot-wire anemometers have been most widely and successfully used in gas flows . |
| 29 | The questionnaire was an adaptation of one designed and successfully used by DNs in the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority . |
| 30 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |