Example sentences of "and [prep] addition to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 2 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 3 | Throughout , the atmosphere is too casual , and in addition to a grave lack of frantic drivenness , there is a marked absence of the erotic . |
| 4 | And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in . |
| 5 | We already care for over 400 woodland areas , and in addition to saving , on average , a wood every week we 're planting thousands of trees each year to create new woods . |
| 6 | The health unions and the nurses could see that others were doing better , and in addition to the top salaries group the miners and the firemen were settling appreciably above the public sector guideline of 4 per cent . |
| 7 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 8 | And in addition to all these again , there are thousands of kinds of habitat or potential habitat — created consciously or inadvertantly by the activities of human beings . |
| 9 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 10 | Dundonald International Ice Bowl offers a comprehensive league and tournament programme and in addition to the competition it is a great way to make new friends . |
| 11 | Good teaching is informed by good research , and in addition to offering courses the Faculty also provides a focus for research activities . |
| 12 | As a result , cats spend a great deal of time every day dealing with their toilet , and in addition to the typical licking movements they perform repeated scratchings . |
| 13 | The egg is the largest cell of the body , and in addition to its nucleus contains a relatively massive cytoplasm , whose contents provide nutrients to the zygote in the early stages of its development . |
| 14 | We already care for over 400 woodland areas , and in addition to saving , on average , a wood every week we 're planting thousands of trees each year to create new woods . |
| 15 | ‘ And in addition to those rewards , Brunt , we know that anyone coming forward with information leading to the apprehension or termination of Jessamyn Bonney will be entitled to one hundred thousand dollars ’ worth of bio-improvements supervised by Dr Zarathustra himself , a duplex apartment in the PZ of your choice , a fully-guaranteed and pirate-protected Caribbean cruise , this complete household computer hook-up and two thousand hours net-time on the interface of your choice , one of our new range of Venus-Adonis model companions , and a further one hundred thousand dollars in the currency or negotiable bond of your choice . |
| 16 | THE Severn Valley Railway have announced that they have obtained the prestigious A4 Pacific 4498 ‘ Sir Nigel Gresley ’ for their forthcoming Autumn Steam Gala weekend on Wednesday , September 23rd , and in addition to the main Gala Days , will work service trains between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster Town on Sundays October 4/11/18/25th . |
| 17 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 18 | Montserrat itself is a major religious centre , and in addition to the religious facilities it 's well set up for tourists and climbers with a cafe , bakery , bar and essential ice cream store . |
| 19 | Species roses As remarked with regard to the English roses above , and in addition to the crossing back of the new with the old , there has been a return to and seeking after the more simple and unsophisticated beauties of the species roses , their forms and near hybrids . |
| 20 | With unusual explicitness , he states the grounds and consequences of his approach , and in addition to grappling with the task of offering holist explanations , he addresses its epistemological corollaries . |
| 21 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , critics say that getting to market in a timely manner may be difficult , and in addition to competition from the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co and NCR Corp , there is widespread concern that proprietary machines like IBM 's AS/400 will supplant the mainframe before IBM can establish cost-effective highly-parallel systems . |
| 23 | This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck . |
| 24 | There is still evidence of the moat which totally surrounded the abbey and in addition to the one remaining section of stonework there are several mounds covered in stinging nettles , indicating the extent of the foundations . |
| 25 | Restaurants , antique and craft shops can be found in and around the township and in addition to the Castle currently undergoing environmental works , visitors are intrigued by the thriving ancient Corporation with its Portreeve , Jury and Common Attorney etc. which retains with pride local customs dating back to its 13th Century Charter . |
| 26 | Such an arrangement combines rigidity with flexibility and in addition to its protective function the cuticle determines the form of the insect , its relative impermeability to water reduces desiccation and it provides a firm basis for the attachment of muscles . |
| 27 | But her passion is the equal of yours , and in addition to your physical lust for skin-to-skin contact , you both experience the psychological desire for closeness , to lose your separateness in emotional and physical fusion . |
| 28 | And in addition to that , am I right in saying , for thirty years you 've been a nun ? |
| 29 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 30 | It is in regard to erosion rates that perhaps the most dramatic progress has been made and in addition to world patterns of discharge , Walling and Webb ( 1983 ) have now reviewed earlier attempts to portray world patterns of sediment yield , some of which conflicted quite significantly , and have provided a revised map of global sediment yields based upon data from nearly 1500 measuring stations and pertinent to sediment yields from basins of 1000 to 10,000 km 2 in area . |