Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 2 | Somehow it seemed delightfully ironic that on the very day that the Association of Tennis Professionals organised its fascinating and skilfully presented seminar on ‘ The Speed of the Game ’ , two renowned baseliners reached the final of the Lipton Players International Championships in Key Biscayne . |
| 3 | Now this stunningly photographed and skilfully acted film by French film-maker Maurice Pialat ( who made To Our Loves and Under Satan 's Sun uses an accretion of naturalistic detail to present an emotionally restrained but utterly compelling account of the last three months of Van Gogh 's life . |
| 4 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |
| 5 | One dog who was specifically brought in as a potential show dog and latterly stud dog was Ch. |
| 6 | The Elton Committee managed to produce a comprehensive and widely supported report and a coherent set of recommendations in a relatively short period of time . |
| 7 | The concept of authoritarian population implies , for Jessop et al. , a monolithic , relatively stable and widely supported form of government . |
| 8 | Another and widely spread practice is for the head of a laboratory to add his name automatically to any paper published from it , though he may have no contribution at all to the work . |
| 9 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 10 | Therefore , although the RPI is a widely followed and widely understood index , it is not entirely satisfactory for the indexation of pensions . |
| 11 | It is a safe and widely administered test . |
| 12 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 13 | She published a history of the UDC , Builders of Peace ( 1924 ) , and from 1925 to 1928 was editor of the UDC journal , Foreign Affairs , which she aimed to make a more popular and widely read journal . |
| 14 | Indeed in some respects the new technologies of standardized and widely distributed reproduction made certain forms of social and cultural reproduction very much more effective , over a wider range , and in modes distinguishable from direct domination and subordination . |
| 15 | The Hereford is probably the most numerous and widely distributed beef breed in the world . |
| 16 | Dominant social ideology , reinforced by traditional Christian teaching , makes the assumption that sex is primarily for procreation and not recreation , and this places sex outside the moral boundaries of many older people , for whom there is still a strong and widely held link between sex and immorality , the belief that sex is wrong or indecent . |
| 17 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 18 | Peru is suffering from two epidemics : one is the recent and widely reported outbreak of cholera which has infected over 200,000 people . |
| 19 | Essentially this relates to the on the failure by researchers , and for that matter policy makers and practitioners , to operationalize a clear and widely agreed definition of what constitutes abuse . |
| 20 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 21 | ‘ Spring and All ’ , a more substantial and widely praised poem , follows the same procedure as ‘ The Red Wheelbarrow ’ with the added spice of faux-naïf cuteness ( announced in the very title , and taken up in epithets like ‘ twiggy ’ ) . |
| 22 | Allied with Francis Bacon 's proposal that a properly organized and properly conducted science could increase the power of the English state was his observation that a new vitality in the sciences had coincided with the Protestant Reformation : This was , of course , a Protestant view of the matter . |
| 23 | Writing an accurate and properly assessed accident report is by far the most difficult part of the investigator 's task , but it is the investigator 's only end-product . |
| 24 | The yawning attitude — " Well , I must go and do some work , I suppose " — can bring down students with good innate ability , while a steady and properly constructed programme can allow those with only mediocre skill to maintain an excellent standard , and to have more free and unencumbered time for the social and sporting facets of a full college life . |
| 25 | Mr Adair said : ‘ A responsible and properly run society needs a system of legal aid to enable those of poor or moderate means to have access to justice . ’ |
| 26 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
| 27 | Barth was driven to this not only by his own exceptionally and relentlessly enquiring mind , but also by the shaking of the foundations of the world he had known under the impact of the First World War . |
| 28 | So Vaughan contented herself with training as a nurse and avidly reading food books in her spare time . |
| 29 | Its partly diurnal habits make this the most familiar of the six smaller owls of the region , short tail and conspicuously bounding flight . |
| 30 | Very often the soil is dry and hungry ( deficient in nutrients ) , especially near evergreens and vigorously rooting hedge species such as privet . |