Example sentences of "and [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders . |
| 2 | At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends . |
| 3 | By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies . |
| 4 | Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures . |
| 5 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 6 | The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator . |
| 7 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 8 | We are no longer surprised by it ; it is taking place all the time , and more rapidly and widely than ever before . |
| 9 | No , it 's confidential and properly cos she 'll want some of it back . |
| 10 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 11 | In one way , the novel is a final triumph of realism , representing character more inwardly and intimately than ever previously . |
| 12 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 13 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 14 | In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position . |
| 15 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 16 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 17 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 18 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 19 | When a white bar is moved to and fro as shown to the left , the neuron responds only when it is nearly vertical , and only for one direction of movement ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 20 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 21 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 22 | Bridgeless rivers were waded , often several times , back and fro until all the kit was safely across . |
| 23 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 24 | In the corners of the kitchen , where it fitted badly , it could be prised up , peeled backwards , waggled to and fro until a piece cracked , broke off . |
| 25 | By his fourth plea , the defendant pleaded that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the £2,000 , the subject of the Exchequer proceedings , which the plaintiff , at the commencement of that action and thence until and at the time of the making of the alleged promise , well knew . |
| 26 | Although there were no elections at the assembly , the gathering was dominated by the issue of who would succeed Mahathir Mohamed as UMNO president and thereby as Prime Minister . |
| 27 | ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’ |
| 28 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 29 | I must have underestimated the benefit of my practice with the neighbour 's cat , since my attempt seemed to sail on and on before it thudded to the ground . |
| 30 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |