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

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1 It is also particularly useful where highly sensitive and subtle matters need to be covered , and where long and detailed responses are required to understand the matters the respondent is reporting on .
2 And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal .
3 In each case the greatest threat needs to be addressed first and where two or more addictions are equally strong , then each needs to be treated with equivalent concern .
4 I have an alternative vision , where difference is not just tolerated but valued , and even celebrated , and where physical and social environments are constantly changing to accommodate and welcome these differences .
5 Rather , a context of action is defined where autonomy continues to be valued and guarded , but where the paramount cultural values stress generosity and affiliation , and where kindred and community , protected by these values , remain the sole sources of nurturance and security .
6 We go to a Dutch city where motor traffic is banned from the centre and where more than half of all local journeys are made by bike .
7 Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some .
8 T. B. Panabokke , when Police Magistrate at Matale , was also suspicious : ‘ The usual evidence was that so-and-so lost his animal and that two or three people at different places , when they went to turn water to their fields , met the accused driving the animals away .
9 After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’
10 ‘ I do not agree with the proposition that the only problem in inner cities is poverty and that all that we need to do is to alleviate poverty , there being no need for other policies .
11 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 .
12 It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’
13 Nothing is more certain than that there will be injuries and that one or two will lose some form before April , but there 's such a depth in the Highbury squad that this wo n't be a problem .
14 Apart from the fact that the breakfast was bad and the service worse and that one or two police constables appeared to be taking their holidays in the hotel , they had picked up nothing of interest .
15 You can understand sort of you know , th the coppers and that that as they say get down behind sofas and what have you but erm it is quite amazing where notes get to is n't it ?
16 If the erm Homeworks experiment is successful could we see many more stores turning over to that that format and that that or will you consider converting the whole chain or might you just have a separate chain called Homesworks ?
17 And that less than a generation after British industry was the laughing stock of the world .
18 Winchester 's position is , and has been since they first saw the copy notice , that the allegations in it were unfounded and that some or all of the factual material on which the allegations were based was inaccurate .
19 The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish .
20 Yet it is not arbitrary that the idea of this particular should remind us of these and not other particulars , and that these and not the other particulars should have the same name used of them .
21 In the same way that there are now few modem savoury recipes that do not have herbs in them , and that more and more people are trying herbal remedies for aches and pains , so the uses to which herbs can be put for cosmetic and domestic purposes are being more widely explored .
22 The Crowther Committee called these categories ‘ connected ’ and ‘ unconnected ’ loans , and that shorter though more arcane form of words is still widely used .
23 And although one or two other trials , in the 1890s for example , centred around birth control , at no time after 1877 was birth-control propaganda hindered by law .
24 And although industrial and space robots are obvious potential applications areas for these retinas , so is their use alongside other remote sensing equipment in automated substitutes for guide dogs .
25 Fondant is easily coloured ( see page 21 for instructions on how to mix with food colouring ) , and although soft and pliable it will harden sufficiently for painting and forming into free-standing objects .
26 For our students the total number of units required is 16 , and although more than the minimum 12 necessary to gain the award of a Higher National Certificate , this is considered necessary for FT students who do not have the benefit of on-going industrial experience .
27 In fact 125,000 were made by the sports goods specialists , A.G.Spalding and although heavy and bulky even for its 1.5 x 1.5m ( 5 ft.sq. ) dimensions , any survivors are treated with great reverence and are highly valued by their collectors .
28 The young Ernest , who grew older as the years passed by , attended a local school , and although energetic and successful in all school activities , he twice ran away from home , though he returned on both occasions .
29 Then you 'd have eighter , or sixteener , a thirty twoer until you 'd got sixty four marbles you know and chuck them in this hole and if odd or even come out .
30 ‘ Sure , ’ he said , in answer to my question , ‘ and if one or two of the chaps drop out , you 'll have your chance .
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