Example sentences of "[adj] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra . |
| 2 | Nationalisation saw the basic pattern retained , although the Scottish elements of the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern Railways were hived off to form a Scottish Region , and the North East based on York also became a separate region . |
| 3 | Its shares fell 2p to 55p But it was Scottish and the rest of the takeover in-crowd , with new time buyers active , which dominated the day 's trading . |
| 4 | Back in Britain , the performance of the four regional companies — the Great Western , the Southern , the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern — that were nationalised in 1948 was by no means as dismal as is sometimes claimed . |
| 5 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |
| 6 | The same story would continue into the early Cambrian , where the contrasts between the north-west Scottish and the Anglo-Welsh successions are well known . |
| 7 | Well he 's one of the people who 's prepared to recognize the English , the Scottish and the Welsh on this Ireland , |
| 8 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 9 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 11 | The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better . |
| 12 | Increasingly , the great naval powers of the Old World , the Empire and Bretonnia also sent ships west over the ocean , seeking Ulthuan and the legendary golden cities of Lustria . |
| 13 | But Butlin , in bridging the pre-affluent and the affluent phases of modern Britain , was truly formative in his contribution to popular culture and mass modes of consumption . |
| 14 | It is affected by wind , the barometer , freshwater and the position of the changing channels in the estuary . |
| 15 | The coat is whitish and the muzzle and insides of the ears are red . |
| 16 | There are two species of colugo , the Malayan and the Philippine . |
| 17 | The British attitude was that American troops should remain pending the completion of the UN task in supervising elections ; the change of policy away from the Moscow agreement , which Britain had so far supported , would be justified in the UN debate on the grounds that the assumptions on future developments at Moscow had proved erroneous and the only course of action now was to appoint a UN temporary commission . |
| 18 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 19 | They had the advantage of providing adequate studio space and being equipped with showers , but other facilities were primitive and the surroundings were not ideal . |
| 20 | Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use . |
| 21 | Ventilation in 19th century mines was very primitive and the air in the confined space in which a passage was being cleared , soon became foul and lacking in oxygen . |
| 22 | She thought the domestic arrangements were too primitive and the facilities for education , particularly language training , at best inadequate . |
| 23 | These objects were often used to exemplify the competing images of the Romantic and nobel primitive and the cannibalistic barbarian as suited the arguments or interests of the time . |
| 24 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 25 | The food is seriously French and the bill is serious in any language . |
| 26 | This was a contentious issue , since the British , French and the Dutch had every intention of returning to their former territories , not comprehending the extent to which the Japanese had forced the pace of change . |
| 27 | If the Tigers can clear other Muslim communities to the south , they will have established a safe corridor between the Serbian and the Bosnian capitals . |
| 28 | They speak a Polabian dialect of the Pomeranian group of Slav languages , closely related to Wendish ( Sorbian ) , Serbian and the vanished Slovincian dialect , all of which are/were related to Polish . |
| 29 | But the new factor is that both the Serbian and the Croatian leadership have said that they are willing in principle to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force . |
| 30 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |