Example sentences of "and the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 2 | The balance are from Turkish naval and military museums , the Turkish and Islamic Museums of Istanbul and Bursa , the Sadberk Hanim Museum in Istanbul ( the first private museum in Turkey ) , and the privately owned Kuyas Collection , a major lender of Iznik pottery . |
| 3 | That , and the narrowly missed encounter with Richard Blake after the intervening four years . |
| 4 | A period of prosperity and relatively full employment gave unprecedented bargaining power to the chronically underemployed and brought successful strikes among this previously unorganized lower stratum of workers , including the semi-skilled gas workers , Bryant and May match girls , and the casually employed dockers of London . |
| 5 | Derivatives with various brand names are Spectraline , Hot-Line , Speed Line , Spiderline and the separately produced Dyneema by the Dutch State Mines , which is marketed in the UK by the Britannia Braiding Company . |
| 6 | In this film it was at Carnforth Station in Lancashire , amid the bustle of comings and goings and the steadily hardening rock-cakes of the buffet , that the entwined lives of that most English and most gentle pair of lovers Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson reached crisis point . |
| 7 | He hated the kitchen and the elegantly curving staircase and the Egyptian rugs on the stone floor of the hall . |
| 8 | Demands for the obelisk 's return were recently voiced in a petition signed by over 500 prominent Ethiopians , including a former Prime Minister , Lij Mikael Imru , a son of Ras Imru Hailé Sellassié , a leading Ethiopian commander during the Italian invasion of 1935–36 ; a former Foreign Minister , Dedjazmatch Zewde Gabre Sellassié ; and the internationally known artist Afewerk Teklé . |
| 9 | It is tempting to see the House on the Hill at Vasiliki as a half-way stage in development between the informal village plans and the rigorously organized plans of the temples . |
| 10 | A low budget affair , among the other bands showcased were The Shop Assistants , Bogshed and the curiously named Dik Dik Dimorphic . |
| 11 | In view of the high density of TNF α producing cells in active inflammatory bowel disease , and the well characterised effects of this cytokine , it is probable that TNF α makes an independent contribution to inflammatory tissue damage . |
| 12 | Donoghue v. Stevenson may be regarded as a milestone , and the well known passage in Lord Atkin 's speech should I think be regarded as a statement of principle . |
| 13 | We will visit the Sforza-Castle , the magnificent gothic Cathedral and the well known La Scala opera house . |
| 14 | ‘ Love ’ ( in all its aspects ) is the theme of most of Hardy 's fiction and poetry , and the well known poems To Lisbie Browne , and The Dark-Eyed Gentleman are excellent contrasting examples . |
| 15 | This is followed at 1.15pm with the Mobil 1 Superbike race , the Regal 600 race at 2.30pm , and the concurrently run Iwak ( UK ) 400 Supersport O'Kane Haulage 125 race at 3.30pm . |
| 16 | With , depending on your tyre sizes , Range Rover 3.54:1 diffs and the already fitted overdrive . |
| 17 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
| 18 | In the case of science , the target areas will be the makers of such popular programmes as Horizon , Equinox , and the BBC Natural History Unit at Bristol , plus the newspaper science correspondents , and the broadly based science journals such as New Scientist , Nature , and Endeavour . |
| 19 | These differences are important , just as it is important to highlight the political position taken by the editors of the volume and the empirically based nature of some of the chapters ( chapters 8 and 9 ) compared with the more abstract nature of others ( chapters 5 and 6 ) . |
| 20 | To date , there have been three boards : the short-lived Northern Pennines Rural Development Board ( 1969–71 ) , concerned mainly with agriculture ; the more recent Development Board for Rural Wales , established in 1976 ; and the longer established Highlands and Islands Development Board , initiated in 1965 . |
| 21 | Raymond Burns and the vastly experienced Garth McGimpsey must be considered virtual certainties . |
| 22 | Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the suit evolved into styles which survive , if at all , only as formal dress — the evening tailcoat now worn with white tie , the morning coat often used at formal weddings , and the rarely seen frock coat . |
| 23 | On the bad side , the lack of a notch filter is unfortunate and there are a number of faults — the ‘ clip ’ indicators , the noisy switch and the badly imbalanced outputs — which indicate the need for some re-thinking at the factory . |
| 24 | We have supposed that once the A-X association has been established , further training with A will endow both A itself and the associatively activated X with associative strength . |
| 25 | Her wig , a soft gold colour , was dressed to sit high on her head , emphasizing once more the high cheekbones and the slightly slanting eyes . |
| 26 | He strode on ahead of her , rather than waiting for her to join him as he would normally have done , and the slightly calculated rudeness had her frowning as she followed him into his office . |
| 27 | Although it was extensively used to model figures such as the river god at Ham , most of the surviving pieces are smaller decorative items such as the pineapple finials in the south terrace at Ham and the richly ornamented urns at Killerton in Devon . |
| 28 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 29 | The fivefold symmetry and the hydrostatically operated tube feet are such distinctive characters that they make members of the group very easy to recognise . |
| 30 | Scorton has entered both the Britain in Bloom and the Best Kept Village competitions and the Parish Council would be grateful if you could see your way to getting the verges trimmed as soon as possible . |