Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 2 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 3 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 4 | CBP100 may correspond to ICR and thereby function as a repressor of the cAMP response in UF9 cells . |
| 5 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 6 | Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision . |
| 7 | In everyday life there are countless occasions on which people are confronted with the need to make a decision which , in its resolution , should be motivated by a healthy conscience and thereby result in a kindly , productive or generous act . |
| 8 | Uncharacteristically , he decided to gallop about , and freakishly collided with a shed , badly injuring his hock . |
| 9 | You can leave your pension in the fund , as described above , and additionally contribute to a personal pension , providing your contributions do not exceed the allowed Inland Revenue limit , i.e. two-thirds of final salary ( or whatever is allowed according to the rules of the scheme ) . |
| 10 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 11 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 12 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 13 | Captures the angry collapsing mood of the country as Allende 's left wing government is threatened and eventually deposed by a right wing junta . |
| 14 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 15 | Between the two the unquantified aspect is easier , you just have to push and push and eventually get to a kind of measurement . |
| 16 | Losing tended to lead to a disintegration of the group , and the search for scapegoats both within and outside the group ; tasks needs became even more important to the loser ; losing , however , forced groups to re-evaluate their view of themselves and eventually come to a more realistic assessment of what changes were required to make the group effective . |
| 17 | Commanders were selected at top level of course , after which they were invited to attend at HQ where they would sift through the applications from prospective crew members , discuss them with the administrating Inspector and eventually come to a mutual agreement on the crewing of each cutter for the following year . |
| 18 | Furthermore they include provisions for the assessment of prior learning and portability of credits that can be accumulated and eventually applied towards a formal qualification . |
| 19 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 20 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 21 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 22 | They constantly fought with the music business and eventually drowned in a pool of legal wrangles , interband arguments and the inevitable financial problems . |
| 23 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 24 | They are the hermeneutic code through which an enigma is posed and eventually solved in a text ; the semic code which determines themes ; the symbolic code which is the sphere where meanings become multivalent and reversible ; the proairetic code which determines action and behaviour ; and finally , the cultural code which provides social and ‘ scientific ’ information . |
| 25 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 26 | Issues which were to influence subsequent events and eventually lead to a national curriculum are specified : first , that the curriculum is overcrowded and the timetable overloaded ; secondly , that pupils who move from one school to another are penalized because of curricular variations between schools ; thirdly , that curricular arrangements within each school tend to give rise to unequal curricular opportunities for pupils ; fourthly , that the school curriculum is not sufficiently relevant for life in a modern industrial society ; and fifthly , that there are evident weaknesses in existing assessment procedures and methods of recording pupil progress . |
| 27 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 28 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 29 | Prudent and orderly , uncompromising in his views on life and art , and instinctively reserved in a postwar world which contradicted them extensively , Frampton was a man of humour , courtesy , and charm , who unbent when he sensed that his deep feeling for beauty , order , and sound technique was shared . |
| 30 | Graham climbed from the car and instinctively ducked as a mortar exploded in the distance . |