Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He was co-author of the declaration of Philadelphia of 1945 which set postwar goals for the ILO , and affirmed that economic and financial policies were to be judged by their contribution to social justice .
2 However brilliant our modern technology may seem , the best way to care for the Taj is to monitor its behaviour , try to reduce pollution and develop a team of conservators and craftsmen who can care for the building , carrying out maintenance and repair where necessary but not to do anything that pretends to be final .
3 Has anybody told the Chief Secretary that that survey also questioned Conservative Members and revealed that more than half of those surveyed did not think that there should be a cut in income tax in the Budget ?
4 Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe .
5 Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell .
6 When it begins to sizzle , add the garlic cloves and cook until tender and evenly browned .
7 The boy — Anton knew him by sight but not his name — twitched and rolled and jerked and strained and foam bubbled from his mouth .
8 Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point .
9 Reason and Mycielska refer to this as a ‘ time-gap experience ’ and found that more than half their sample of 85 psychology undergraduates and postgraduates reported such experiences as happening more than once a month .
10 In all cases , however , a rule is something that is held and accepted as right and legitimate by the members of a group or society .
11 Based in the South-west , Richard Tarr , a shop assistant , runs a motorcycle rapid response unit for the UFO group Quest International and says that more and more of his calls are about crop formations .
12 So we can reject the hypothesis that each of the coefficients on the variables are zero , and conclude that current and up to two lags in had a significant impact on the unemployment rate .
13 When I 'm good and ready , when I 'm fed and rested and calm and peaceful , I 'm going to just let my mind go right on back into the past , and I 'm going to remember everything there is to remember about my childhood .
14 I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’
15 Each root was identified and numbered by the ROOTS image analysis program we developed , and was remeasured and classified as live or dead at each sampling date .
16 Atypical acinar cell foci were identified histologically and classified as acidophilic or basophilic according to established criteria .
17 R. H. Tawney observed that the workman 's philosophy was the same as his masters : ‘ get as much and give as little as possible ’ .
18 Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration .
19 Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer .
20 ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’
21 She felt now a dulled sense of degradation : she felt depraved and diminished and shrunken and old .
22 Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not .
23 Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people .
24 Losing the desire for material things — in fact the total spurning of them — gives calm and release as long as that desire is not replaced by the desire for such mental delights as ecstasy .
25 Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally .
26 Hans P. Kraus and Larry J. Schaaf conducted a census of surviving copies in 1986–88 and discovered that fewer than 40 sets survived .
27 The government first claimed that its forces ( Forças Armadas Populares de Libertaçao de Angola — FAPLA ) had captured the town on Feb. 2 , after killing more than 500 UNITA guerrillas , but this was denied by UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi , who said that the town was firmly under UNITA control and alleged that Soviet and Cuban forces had been involved in the fighting .
28 When applied to marriage these two ‘ inward ’ actions provide an approach to the marriage relationship which is powerful and constructive when present , and undermining and destructive when absent .
29 She cleaned and polished and tidied and shopped and cooked and washed clothes and sewed buttons onto Jack 's shirts .
30 The chanting rose in volume and fell , syncopated and flowed , loved and released , flew and dived , teased and reassured and elevated and entranced and redeemed .
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