Example sentences of "and [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how ruthless and cruel the evolutionary process may appear to be , it nevertheless must be regarded as having been inevitably so . |
| 2 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 3 | An appreciation of these complexities will indicate how involved and unexplored the phenomenon of deixis really is and how the philosophical approaches to indexicals can handle only a small proportion of these problems . |
| 4 | One such — and possible the best of them all — is David Nobbs . |
| 5 | Alain Carignon , forty-four , mayor of Grenoble since 1983 , and President of the Department of Isère , is said to be very keen on the post and possible the strongest candidate . |
| 6 | A business letter , for example , will usually contain your address , the recipients address , the date , dear sir , yours faithfully and possible the words ‘ with reference to … |
| 7 | One solution could be to double notes at the octave , but this leads to poor results , as doubled notes become too powerful and upset the chordal equilibrium . |
| 8 | Sir James ordered one of his retinue to stay and stable the horses while he and Corbett , accompanied by the remainder of his party , made their way carefully up the gangplank and into the busy ship . |
| 9 | They argue that goods are used to make ‘ visible and stable the categories of culture ’ ( 1980 : 59 ) . |
| 10 | LOOK SMART AND COMPLETE THE SET IN FASTRAX UNISEX SHORTS IN COLOURS TO MATCH VESTS FROM £6.50 , OR LYCRA KNICKERS . |
| 11 | Juliette finished her task , put the trousers on a wooden hanger , hooked it over the back of a chair and unplugged the iron . |
| 12 | Now the face when you look at them they 're going to be very pale , cold and clammy the eyes well , erm , unless they 're really into concussion they 're possibly normal . |
| 13 | If no distinction is made between public and private the search for good management is subverted by the ideology of " managerialism " : the belief that managerial expertise is the sole legitimate criterion for decision-making in public organisations . |
| 14 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 15 | Slowly , with infinite care , Rourke reached up and untwined the tight band of her fingers from around the heavy ornament . |
| 16 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 17 | The more vigorous and acute the illness is the quicker things change . |
| 18 | Very often the more severe and acute the illness , the clearer the disease picture so that the similar remedy may actually be easier to select . |
| 19 | Being an executive one day and unemployed the next brings an added trauma . |
| 20 | How sad and desolate the cottage seemed now : empty — like a heart with no one to love . |
| 21 | And afraid the man might kill him . |
| 22 | In conclusion , the nativistic position presented by McNeill and Chomsky may have overestimated the contribution to language learning which must be ascribed to innate knowledge and underrepresented the part played by child-environment interactions . |
| 23 | The fact is ( however complex and messy the eventual analysis may be ) that the two kinds of process and relationship must have developed together and must surely be combined with one another in our understanding . |
| 24 | For the more ideal and self-contained the housing conditions , the more self-sufficient the housewife becomes and the more pressure there is on her to maintain a perfect home . |
| 25 | We say loud and clear the masses of ordinary women are our inspiration , build an autonomous peoples movement ! |
| 26 | Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks . |
| 27 | He subjected the perambulations made at the beginning of the reign to searching investigation , and re-afforested the forest of Bere in Dorset . |
| 28 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 29 | The widow smiled and unloosed the clasp of her cloak . |
| 30 | It was as if the more extreme and indefensible the moral expressions of Nazism , the more he thrilled to its rhythms of infamy . |