Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ford was crossed by a mill dam and consequently was extremely difficult and dangerous and thereby occasioned several unlucky accidents . |
| 2 | It is suggested that the controls constitute a necessary conceptual framework , and presumably have some practical impact on behaviour by providing a normative code for the guidance of management and a public standard for the evaluation of their conduct by others , but that as an enforceable control mechanism their effectiveness is very limited . |
| 3 | Perhaps unwisely , he was still in an avuncular mood after his trip abroad , and duly uttered those fatal words . |
| 4 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 5 | Sabine , coaxed into taking a sip from Rohan 's glass , felt as if the top of her head had exploded , and laughingly refused any more . |
| 6 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 7 | I remember imagining I was going to the market to buy food , and suddenly felt this agonising pain in my bottom , and saw my skirt all ripped , and blood — I thought I was revolted , and yet it was followed by masturbation . |
| 8 | Williams said that he glanced away and suddenly heard several single shots . |
| 9 | A good mare will often have the edge over a good gelding , because she has had nothing ‘ taken away ’ and so retains that extra sparkle . |
| 10 | He travelled a lot in India at that time , talking to troops and meeting leaders , and so met many interesting people . |
| 11 | Like her , he tries to set local government within ‘ the context of the encompassing political economy ’ , but he also argues that Cockburn 's approach , by presenting local government as an instrument of capital makes it ‘ unproblematic and so renders any detailed study of it almost superfluous ’ ( Dearlove , 1979 , p. 217 ) . |
| 12 | It was made by the furious last sweep of his indestructible sword Durandal , when he struck it against the rock in a vain effort to break it and so stop this epic weapon from falling into the hands of the Saracens : |
| 13 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 14 | If the wheel brake is powerful , the effect of any rapid deceleration increases the inertia effect of the mass being behind the main wheel , and so accentuates any swinging tendency . |
| 15 | Yet another reason for regarding romantic suspense as primarily a woman 's art ( though I enjoy reading them , and so do many other old male chauvinists ) is that the archetypal situation they describe echoes the situation of women through the ages . |
| 16 | Nevertheless my neighbours like to eat salami with their olives and smoked ham with their figs , and so do most other Italians . |
| 17 | These are to provide short term relief to those suffering from the effects of the famine and to try to prevent the famine continuing by getting to the root of the problem , and so having more lasting long term effects . |
| 18 | The whole point is that if the intrepid aviator got shot down while blasting Gerry out of the skies above enemy territory , he could simply unzip his boot-legs and have a pair of civilian-looking shoes on his feet , and thus pass for a native and so escape those dreadful SS men in their tight little black uniforms . |
| 19 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 20 | And so begins another weary day so begins another weary day . |
| 21 | La la la la in the morning I awake my arms my legs my belly aches And so begins another weary day . |
| 22 | I hope that Opposition Members will use their influence with Labour-controlled councils to improve their performance and so put many more such properties back into use . |
| 23 | They agreed with the Inland Revenue that the return of the fund on death fell within the definition of reasonable interest which the legislation required and so introduced this new concept . |
| 24 | In a normal decay the photon and the nucleus share the energy release Q , so that the photon energy is less than Q. Similarly , when a photon is absorbed in the reverse process the nucleus recoils to take up the photon momentum and so acquires some kinetic energy . |
| 25 | Most people would probably agree that sleep was necessary and provided rest from exertion , and perhaps had some restorative function as well . |
| 26 | If we had n't , we 'd have tossed you back and perhaps saved some other unfortunate ! ’ |
| 27 | All teachers could usefully participate in an initial brainstorming exercise , sharing ideas and strategies , and perhaps suggesting some local sites or resources . |
| 28 | The silence lengthened as Lucenzo surveyed her , and she knew intuitively that he was debating whether to pursue her or not , wondering if she was worth teasing any longer and perhaps forming some other devilish plan . |
| 29 | In other agencies , this role is filled by the account executive , but then there may well be a research specialist who fulfils a service function , advising on market research and its interpretation , and perhaps doing some small-scale research personally . |
| 30 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |