Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they also said the Jews would have a homeland in Palestine and agreed that when the war ended the French would control Syria and what was then called Mount Lebanon . |
| 2 | A UN team visited Kuwait in March and reported that although a deliberate attempt had been made to " extinguish Kuwait " , the country had made good progress in dealing with immediate humanitarian needs [ see p. 38082 for mission to Iraq ] . |
| 3 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 4 | He arranged the pictures used in advertising into some fifty categories and found that whilst a representation of men and women embracing was most common there were no representatives at all of people at work . |
| 5 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 6 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 7 | A leading article described the CNAA process as ‘ sticky and demanding ’ and believed that when the Council finally approved diversified courses in the colleges they would find the efforts to have been beneficial . |
| 8 | She knelt down and wept and noticed that where the tears fell on the ground , flowers sprang up . |
| 9 | Andrew Neil , editor of the Sunday Times , described it as a ‘ busybody 's charter ’ and added that while the MPs said they were trying to protect small people they were really protecting themselves . |
| 10 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 11 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 12 | Each Department plays a part in creating a stimulating environment where creativity and enterprise are valued and encouraged and where a sense of internationalism is evident in all areas of work . |
| 13 | Bhutto responded by dismissing charges of corruption as a " slander campaign " , and declared that although the President 's call for fresh elections constituted a " smokescreen " , her party would " go to the people " if required . |
| 14 | Then towards the end she had lost her temper completely and declared that if the listeners wanted to find out what it was really all about , they had better write to her . |
| 15 | He proposed a reduction in the State President 's powers , and reaffirmed that while the Separate Amenities Act would be repealed in 1990 , and the Group Areas Act replaced with a non-discriminatory law the following year , other apartheid legislation would remain on the statute book until a new constitution was drawn up . |
| 16 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 17 | The main room or ‘ house ’ , where the family gathered and worked and where the fire never went out , would not have been a suitable place for storage . |
| 18 | I watched this with astonishment , and decided that if the animals in this country seemed so sensible , the human beings must be the most intelligent in the world . |
| 19 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 20 | The apparent safeguards inherent in a small pilot project enabled very ambitious changes to be accepted and meant that when the whole school converted to the new programme the change was indeed radical . |
| 21 | He turned and looked back and saw that where the eagles were , especially the central cages where the golden eagles lived , there was chaos . |
| 22 | He had seen Caballeros make his 3 and knew that unless the Spaniard cracked he would need to finish with two birdies himself . |
| 23 | Dr Schussler , who had a particular interest in physiology , considered that a number of diseases were due to a deficiency of one or more of these salts and thought that if a patient exhibited the symptoms of a remedy — for instance Natrum muriaticum — there was a deficiency of this salt in the patient 's body . |
| 24 | We listened and learned that if the church is to grow it must consider all its resources ! |
| 25 | He claimed repair works were urgent and said that although the public had responded magnificently , councils and businesses had not followed suit , with the exception of ICI which had given £500 . |
| 26 | Coceres outscored Ballesteros , who could only manage a level par 72 , and said that though the Spanish maestro was one of his trate on his own game . |
| 27 | It would be nice to think they had legends about them , and said that when a good frog died its soul would go to be big flowers in the sky … . |
| 28 | He rang the managing director of Downton and said that if the other two players did n't have their contracts cancelled immediately he and Mary-Ann would call a Press Conference , tear up their contracts with his company , and tell the world 's Press why . |
| 29 | ’ The meagre , gallant Don Quixote beard quivered and jutted as though every individual hair had suddenly stiffened to the clenched tension of Paviour 's jaw . |
| 30 | Measurement of sub-contractor 's work is a difficult and laborious task and management controls are necessary to ensure that work is accurately measured and valued and that the surveyor has sufficient time to achieve these objectives . |