Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though this is probably fanciful and certainly without basis in contemporary record , Jaenberht 's alienation from Offa may have been very real , because of the suppression of Kentish independence after 784–5 and now the partition of his province . |
| 2 | And this was a wonderful old grocery shop , er plain wooden floors you know , no tiles or anything like that , just the wood floors and I can see the barrels of apples and the barrels of this and then the oranges and the all the groceries and the bags of flour and the bags of sugar and and the and the grocer weighing the sugar up and all this sort of thing . |
| 3 | And then er just work out the length of this and then the length of that and then subtract these two lengths . |
| 4 | It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood . |
| 5 | The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago . |
| 6 | Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media . |
| 7 | about erm ten of these and then the head |
| 8 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 9 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 10 | Harry Williams ' home-bred flyer has attracted tremendous ante-post support at odds of 100–1 and now the bookmakers have dramatically cut the price to 50–1 , with a few layers offering a more generous 66–1 . |
| 11 | And then the the men cut the like that and then the women s they lifted the , and the next lad he stuck them so that it was a very busy time . |
| 12 | One l one like that and then the entrance into it . |
| 13 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 14 | The corporate objectives of managers may often appear in conflict with this and hence the tension between the two groups . |
| 15 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 16 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 17 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 18 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 19 | For example some mothers feel very embarrassed about reprimanding their child or dealing with a tantrum in public and so the child rapidly learns that a tantrum could produce sweets if enough fuss is created ( McAuley and McAuley 1977 ) . |
| 20 | Fishman acknowledges the skill involved in this and indeed the necessity for someone to do it ; but she sees it as something women are coerced into . |
| 21 | This was abolished in 1972 and consequently the prosecution must now convince a more representative sample of the population that a publisher ought to be punished : a sample , moreover , which has a constitutional right to acquit irrespective of the letter of the law . |
| 22 | Among injecting drug users , the peak in HIV incidence took place in 1985 and so the number of AIDS cases is still climbing . |
| 23 | A breed society was founded in 1908 and today the Salers also has breed societies in Canada and the USA . |
| 24 | The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer 's work . |
| 25 | Built in 1811 and now the Borough Council 's Leathercraft Museum . |
| 26 | As one would expect , people who consider themselves ill are more likely to visit their doctor than the population in general and hence the consultation rates of Table 3.10 are higher than those of Table 3.9 . |
| 27 | Central governments elected in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 have clearly benefited from UDCs in general and especially the LDDC . |
| 28 | In almost every chapter and section I have found it convenient to say things about crime writing in general and sometimes the art of fiction in particular . |
| 29 | Cistercian abbey founded in 1143 and traditionally the burial place of Llywelyn the Last . |
| 30 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |