Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Aughton wants the County Council to send Steven and Jason to the fifteen thousand pound a year private West Country Boarding School in Exeter which caters exclusively for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 2 | This is a curved surface in a moving airflow which simply bends the wind , causing a pressure difference between the windward and leeward sides of the sail . |
| 3 | This is what is normally called the problem of social order , and of course it 's been around in philosophy and , and social sciences , really since the beginning , and er , some of the greatest and earliest works of er , social philosophy like Plato 's Republic , are really in part about this er question . |
| 4 | On both occasions she had been struck by the contrast between on the one hand the beauty of the Bay itself , the islands , the fine buildings towards Posillipo and on the other the cramped and jumbled desperation of the mean and bustly streets immediately below her . |
| 5 | These are the tangible results of its activity , and take no account of the quality of the educational and indeed life experience gained by those who have passed through its doors . |
| 6 | Tony Fretwell-Downing , the Sheffield computer businessman who sponsored the event , very gamely claimed his first ever route with an ascent of the loose and long west flank . |
| 7 | Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture . |
| 8 | Conner has grave doubts about how on-the-water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . |
| 9 | I was n't sure it was a girl , at first , what with the shapeless and grimly robe she wore — ankle-length , made of coarse brown cloth — and the heavy oversized boots in which she was clumping along . |
| 10 | To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists . |
| 11 | The most zealous founders of the BFASS in 1839 were amongst those who had worked hardest to revitalise the local society network in the mid-1830s and so Joseph Sturge , John Scoble and the Quaker banker George Alexander toured areas of the country in 1839–40 to give the new national body the support of auxiliaries consciously orientated to universal abolition . |
| 12 | REX ANG was used on some of his coins by Aethelstan , king of the East Angles , in the 830s and subsequently REX AN by Eadmund , king of the East Angles . |
| 13 | Facilities for the Disabled : Ten Pin Bowling can be fully enjoyed by the disabled and both individuals and parties are welcome . |