Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] and [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's heading towards death , he 's in the clutches of the authorities and probably the common people taking a few steps back . |
| 2 | On this occasion , at least , the schools and even the general newspapers have not failed the research enterprise . |
| 3 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 4 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 5 | It may be reasonably speculated that English ethnocentricity , then as now , would assume that , first the Scots and later the Irish , were let into Westminster , but the legislation gives no warrant for this assumption . |
| 6 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 7 | Crucial to the success of diplomatic missions were first the quality of the ambassadors and secondly the political intelligence . |
| 8 | I emerged on to Oxford Street where the decorations festooned the streetlamps and even the Wimpy bars had spray-snowed their windows . |
| 9 | This involves understanding the perspective of the elderly client , of the carers and how the caring relationship developed . |
| 10 | As the teeth sink into the flesh , the pressure of this action squeezes venom out of the glands and down the hollow tubes of the paired fangs . |
| 11 | Normally the husband is a living man who is both the original owner of the cattle and also the actual biological father ( genitor ) of the woman 's children , but in exceptional circumstances the bridecattle may derive from a deceased bridegroom or from a woman owner of cattle . |
| 12 | Well I think partly the reputation of of the flats and also the general knowledge that not very many people in the flats have much money . |
| 13 | earlier we mentioned about erm particularly about the actual stress that can people can g in erm living in the flats and also the financial difficulties . |
| 14 | Certainly a reading of the soil conservation literature through seventy years or so exposes the lack of substantive progress in the identification of the problems and even the technical solutions ( with the possible exception of the demonstration of the importance of rainsplash in soil erosion ) . |
| 15 | George Brown emerges from these pages not as a charming if wayward leprechaun , a well-meaning and decent man who occasionally got carried away by his own exuberance , but as a neurotic monster — vain , rude , self-absorbed , utterly insensitive to the feelings and even the common humanity of those around him . |
| 16 | The other three pairs came from the trees and down the sloping fields in complete silence . |
| 17 | At the much lower surface temperatures on the Earth most of the CO 2 remains in the carbonates and therefore the partial pressure of atmospheric CO 2 is low . |
| 18 | In other words Cornwall 's electorate , three hundred and seventy two thousand , is actually more than the Highlands and the Islands and virtually the same as for Northern Ireland seats and for the West Wales seat . |
| 19 | After joining , the Liberals and even the Labour supporters seem to drift into the Conservative way of thinking . |
| 20 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 21 | I can see the horses and even the timorous harvest mice scurrying through a forest of stubble . |
| 22 | Not only do they reflect the significance of each part of the ancient ritual , but also the solemn chant of the singers during the ceremonies and later the raucous shouts of the guests at the feast . |
| 23 | Fifty two per cent of reservoirs showed expression of one of the markers and not the other ( Table IV ) . |
| 24 | Erm , so a slide lecture pre-prepared for use by the teacher , the analysis carried out by the pupil using the slides and then the visual material and work cards made available to pupils . |
| 25 | Founded by the Gauls , colonised by the Romans and later the Papal stronghold , Senigallia is rich in history . |
| 26 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 27 | There are two different areas of these accidents , one the driveways of the various village 's some of which are blind erm with no pavements and also the four minor roads which junction onto , onto the main road in the village . |
| 28 | Hachani asserted in a radio interview on Nov. 20 that " if the situation remains as it is " the FIS would " exert every available means , within the framework of the law , so that there will be no elections and so the whole Algerian people boycott these elections " . |