Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 2 | At the same time as the petition was being circulated , the Action Committee wrote and widely circulated a letter that anyone , anywhere , could send to their own MPs . |
| 3 | Consigned for sale by Alexander Klee , grandson of Paul Klee who was given the painting by Kandinsky in exchange for one of his own , it is a sketch for ‘ Composition VII ’ of 1913 , now in the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow , and widely considered the artist 's most innovative painting of that year . |
| 4 | But if the chance for a fair electoral system is lost at least we should have played to what strength there is in a single member system and properly recognised the individual communities of the U K. That chance has been missed without review and on that grounds I do n't believe this review should go through . |
| 5 | He ruminated on the idea and nervously plucked a cigarette from the green onyx box beside the telephone . |
| 6 | Throughout the year , the Agency effectively and successfully committed the resources available to it in support of training . |
| 7 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 8 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 9 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 10 | The facts to be assumed by the House of Lords for the purposes of the appeal were that Shell and others had , in breach of the sanctions order , covertly supplied Southern Rhodesia with oil by other means and thereby prolonged the state of illegal independence and the time during which Lonrho 's pipeline was out of use . |
| 11 | He recognised his ex-pupil 's handwriting on a letter and thereby identified the highwayman — even though Turpin had only been his pupil for three quarters of a year . |
| 12 | It blessed the religious communities and thereby committed the Anglican Communion to an official acceptance of monks and nuns in a way which was so far unique to the Churches which came out of the Reformation . |
| 13 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 14 | Another ten years later , a young Japanese , Shibusawa Eiichi , adapted Siemens ' concept to his country and thereby laid the foundation of Japan 's modern economy . |
| 15 | We carried on and eventually devised a plan . |
| 16 | Leaving the car , Gerry Matthews and I walked up a steep hill , past an eerie standing stone , and eventually reached a mound at the hilltop ringed by a deep moat . |
| 17 | She moved from handbags through gifts to the flower shop and eventually reached a men 's outfitting department where , suddenly , she saw Edward . |
| 18 | We stayed close to the radio and eventually heard a repeat of what proved to be Marshal Badoglio 's first and last broadcast to the nation , uttered in a mournful voice : |
| 19 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 20 | We found , and searched , a by-now passengerless train and eventually located a luggage van containing an enormous , hairy , and morose dog in one corner and a small morose guard in the other . |
| 21 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 22 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 23 | Dauntless kept an eye on the tree trunks to the side of the path and eventually spotted a growth of swage mushroom , just above head height . |
| 24 | The bear became extremely angry with the fly , and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it . |
| 25 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 26 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 27 | She rummaged around in a handbag as big as my trumpet case and eventually found a length of till receipt from a grocery store . |
| 28 | The English Parliament , somewhat ungratefully , used the restoration of peace to revive all its old objections to a standing army and eventually forced the king to get rid of all but 10,000 of his 30,000 troops , £350,000 a year being voted for the remainder , considered the minimum needed for home defence . |
| 29 | When we reached the house , however , he rummaged about in the office for a while complaining that he could never find anything on Dee-Dee 's days off and eventually brought a paper into the dining-room , plonked it on the table and instructed me to sign . |
| 30 | The plaintiffs were ultimately only able to complete on the basis of the terms subsequently offered by the bank which were financially disadva disadvantageous and effectively deprived the business of any chance of surviving because of the lack of operating capital and er many of the losses which are set out on page sixty two erm are based on that intention and are dealt with er in full |