Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Six original EC members , along with Spain , were committed to further developments like the Delors Plan , and Franco-German co-operation remained the back-bone of the unity movement . |
| 2 | Cocklers and fishing boats in the area were warned to take care and auxiliary coastguards searched the south Scotland and Cumbria coasts until dark last night as a precaution . |
| 3 | Smiling bravely through the pain of separation from the princess , William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry joined the rest of the royal family for the traditional Christmas morning service at Sandringham Church . |
| 4 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 5 | In contrast , new and expanded towns experienced the greatest declines in growth rate , confirming that the new towns are mostly no longer new nor are they so fertile . |
| 6 | Tripwires lined the top of the perimeter wall and armed dog-handlers patrolled the grounds twenty-four hours a day . |
| 7 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
| 8 | And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament . |
| 9 | Social , economic and political developments crushed the eighteenth-century constitution and hence the credibility of the established constitutional theory . |
| 10 | Commercial and political freedom liberated the commercialised aristocracy and gentry to establish oligarchy in parliament and stately-home civility in the countryside . |
| 11 | That ideological and political imperatives underlay the plan of systematization can not be doubted . |
| 12 | Among the European participants , the French regarded proposals to extend the proposed CSCM to include other Mediterranean countries as premature , whereas Italian and Spanish representatives envisaged the integration of the entire Mediterranean basin in such a structure . |
| 13 | Banter and mocking cheers greeted the announcement as the drift to the communal hall commenced . |
| 14 | Good luck , a close fist , and administrative skills pushed the land revenues up to £42,000 per annum by 1509 , about four times their level in 1433 . |
| 15 | To this pale and hollow man fell the enormous responsibility of placing every school-leaving boy in full-time employment before the end of his final term . |
| 16 | All refugees and displaced persons had the right to return to Cambodia . |
| 17 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |
| 18 | But France sought to lessen its dependence on USA/NASA research and European co-operation appeared the only viable alternative . |
| 19 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 20 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 21 | But warm sunshine and dry rocks made the Dark Cliff irresistible . |
| 22 | The Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings employed the system , but during Plantagenet times it fell into desuetude . |
| 23 | Indeed the implication of the Phillips curve relationship was taken to be that control of demand via fiscal and monetary policies allowed the government to operate the economy at full capacity , yielding high employment but rising prices ; or at lower levels of demand , producing more stable prices but higher unemployment . |
| 24 | The coincidence of free financial markets with relatively poor economic performance therefore seems more potent than during the 1970s , when inflation and dear oil slowed the whole industrial world . |
| 25 | A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 . |
| 26 | E. D. Vinogradoff has shown how local agrarian social and economic conditions shaped the collective political behaviour of peasants elected to the Fourth State Duma . |
| 27 | Being handsome , more Italian-looking than Jewish , his swarthy appearance and broad shoulders captivated the girls … and he loved the ladies . |
| 28 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 29 | Both the Conservative and Labour parties accepted the existence of a mixed economy ( an economy with both private and public sectors ) and a welfare state . |
| 30 | Post-war governments in France and Italy , the most important states , were weak coalitions , short-lived and threatened by strong communist parties ; a Soviet invasion of continental Europe was not out of the question ; and Labour politicians disliked the Christian Democratic predominance on the Continent . |