Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or the black and the cerise and all the jacquards |
| 2 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 3 | The posture is organised as carefully as the length of the red tags or the Sta-prest or the hair . |
| 4 | Then the value of the whole W ( the value it has , as Moore puts it , on the whole ) consists of the value of W as a whole plus the value of X plus the value of Y. According as to whether the value of W as a whole is positive , negative or nil the value of W , on the whole , may be greater , less , or the same as the value of the sum of its parts . |
| 5 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 6 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 7 | The sixth round was the longest to date and the first since the election of a new Labour government in Israel in June [ see p. 38945-47 ] . |
| 8 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 9 | Even then , it was not free from disaster , and the central and the south-west towers collapsed in a storm of 1210 and had to be rebuilt . |
| 10 | Similarly , the inventor must be careful when discussing his invention with potential manufacturers and the like and the law of confidence is very important at this stage . |
| 11 | It will be the 32nd US space shuttle mission , and the seventh since the Challenger shuttle exploded in flight in 1986 . |
| 12 | Tom did not much like the long train journey through Harrow and Northwood and Wembley down to Baker Street , and the changing and the waiting . |
| 13 | The charter party is the document made between the merchant and the bourgeois or the owner of the ship to make a voyage … |
| 14 | The Greek myths , war and peace and the great and the good . |
| 15 | The Greater Pilton area has particular problems relating to children and the elderly where the casualty rates per head of population are over twice those for Lothian Region as a whole ( Table 29 refers ) . |
| 16 | And the long and the short of it I 'm afraid is , your mother 's gone . ’ |
| 17 | The black and the black and the black . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 19 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 20 | But if they would work no more and no faster than the job required , they would work no slower and no less : nobody had to give them a special incentive to give of their best . |
| 21 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 22 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
| 23 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 24 | From the explosive and detonator , a wire ran round the belt to the side , where it connected with a lithium battery similar to and no larger than the sort used to power digital watches . |
| 25 | The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus : |
| 26 | It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with . |
| 27 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 28 | I know the perfection of it all , but the ideal and the reality rarely match . |
| 29 | An odd proposal , but no odder than the belief sustained for 40 years that the Kuomintang would return to Beijing to rule all of China . |
| 30 | In short , public spending was to rise in real terms but no faster than the GDP . |