Example sentences of "and [conj] [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also cited the fact that they had not profited personally from their conduct , that they had " a record of long and distinguished service " , and that all had already in terms of emotional anguish and damaged careers paid a price which was " grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgement they might have committed " . |
| 2 | The latest government survey , published in November 1988 , shows that a quarter of all homes require at least £2,200 spending on them , and that many have potentially serious structural faults which could cost thousands of pounds to put right . |
| 3 | In so far as these involved Thorkell after 1021 it is worth remembering that Olaf and he had been associates in the army of 1009 – 12 , and that both had later served Æthelred . |
| 4 | With cash accounting we suggested that manipulation of accounting results could be effected by postponing cash payments and that this applied particularly when budgets were used in financial control . |
| 5 | It seems likely that access to signing in school prompts the development among children of a ‘ natural ’ sign language which forms the language code , and that this occurs independently of the visual mixture offered by teachers . |
| 6 | The New York Times of Aug. 14 reported that Iraq had transferred between US$3,000 million and $5,000 million in gold , foreign currency and goods from Kuwait and that this had significantly increased Iraq 's financial reserves which had stood at an estimated US$6,500 million before the invasion . |
| 7 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 8 | Davenport is aware that the company 's overall competitive position has been deteriorating , and that this applies particularly to the Royal Oak . |
| 9 | Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions . |
| 10 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 11 | On April 30 a television programme had claimed that the Labour Party had hosted secret fund-raising dinners for prominent business executives , that certain companies had made significant secret contributions to the party 's campaign fund , and that these had subsequently profited from sales of state assets . |
| 12 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 13 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 14 | There are about 2,600 housing associations in England and Wales with a total stock of over 600,000 dwellings , and although this represents only about 3 per cent of all dwellings , the associations ' share of the total stock will increase substantially as the full impact of the 1988 Act begins to be felt . |
| 15 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 16 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 17 | Lough Melvin in Ireland has three sub-populations of the brown trout-Ferox , Gillaroo and Sonaghen — and although these feed together in the same lake they return to separate rivers to breed as adults and so the different sub-populations are maintained . |
| 18 | Now , though , comes the word that Confederacy is being developed by Ivan Reitman — coming up soon in Ghostbusters II , which he also wrote — and if all goes well , he will be directing it for 20th Century Fox . |
| 19 | A meeting with the council is about to take place , and if all goes well the pool and performance bowl will be dug out and made skateable again . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope to be back at work before the three months is up , ’ he said , ‘ and if all goes well , I hope to be back playing football next season . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You can still be friends — and if that proves too difficult , then you can come home . ’ |
| 22 | And if that sounds very magnanimous , then do n't forget we 're dealing with another in the line of self-deprecating Irish bands , who have about as much fashion sense and arrogance as The Undertones . |
| 23 | For example , the NRA are talking about making buoyancy aids compulsory on the Thames and if that happens then the idea will spread elsewhere like wildfire . |
| 24 | They say that if they create Regional Government they will do so at the expense of National Government and not Local Government , but that is n't true because Mister has already said that erm strategic services such as passenger transport will b will be handed over to regions and if that goes obviously fire , police and strategic planning will be lost to us . |
| 25 | As further factors become clear it will be necessary to review further the Control and Collection Sections and if necessary to present further reports to the Committee during 1993 . |
| 26 | It is sent to our secretary , who has the considerable task of arranging the pages into a form suitable for photo-copying , inserting photographs , and if necessary reducing then to the correct size , etc. for insertion into the gaps left in the text . |
| 27 | 5 Look it the costs involved and if these seem too high for your budget , consider joining with non-competing manufacturers . |
| 28 | And if both went well , he might acquire a momentum of success . |
| 29 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 30 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |