Example sentences of "and in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 2 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 3 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 4 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 5 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 6 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 7 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 8 | Neutralisation has an established legal pedigree and in contemporary conditions it remains a possible political formula to resolve or dampen down certain regional conflicts or to stabilise regional conditions which otherwise could escalate into a superpower confrontation . |
| 9 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 10 | When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying in and in one or two other schools , it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing O Level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying , and in other schools it has happened in other subjects . |
| 11 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 12 | A waterfall does not have to be prefabricated to be successful and in certain circumstances it is desirable that it is not so . |
| 13 | Local events include sheepdog trials , cattle markets and Highland games , and in certain pubs you will be treated to Scottish evenings and folk music . |
| 14 | ‘ And in certain ways I 've been very lucky . |
| 15 | That side has improved and in real terms we have n't had to spend much in the past two or three years . |
| 16 | Wordsworth rewrote Guilt and Sorrow to conform to this teaching , and in Lyrical Ballads we are invited to contemplate The Dungeon and The Convict from a Godwinian viewpoint ; criminals are to be re-educated and placed in surroundings conducive to this end . |
| 17 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 18 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 19 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 20 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 21 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 22 | The obstacles in the path of de-centralising reforms will be as difficult to negotiate in Eastern Europe as in the USSR , and in present conditions it is possible that the patient would not survive the cure . |
| 23 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 24 | In the Group Chief Executive 's Review you will find them discussed more fully , and in subsequent pages we report on the progress being made toward them by each of our businesses . |
| 25 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 26 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 27 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 28 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 29 | Since we all experience all four life-positions at different times and in different situations we can at least increase the frequency of OKness . |
| 30 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |