Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up . |
| 2 | Top left : Pattern drawing of ranking worn on the transverse shoulder straps attached to the 1895 ‘ sack coat ’ , and 1898 four-pocket blouse , and latterly on the blue shirt . |
| 3 | The Wenlock/Niagaran limestones spread gently and widely on the shallow shelves . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ? |
| 5 | I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street . |
| 6 | Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 7 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 8 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 9 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 10 | Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces . |
| 11 | He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair . |
| 12 | The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot . |
| 13 | The resultant economics was to lead directly to the Renaissance , and thence to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | The L3 then passes in the bloodstream to the lungs and thence to the small intestine via the trachea . |
| 15 | The L1 break into the alveoli , migrate to the trachea and thence to the alimentary tract to be passed in the faeces . |
| 16 | The Withington mosaic is considered an elaborate version of this format ( datable to c. 290 ) leading to the Barton mosaic ( with its numismatic evidence ) of c. 300 , and thence to the other pavements in the group . |
| 17 | Zeki Validov , one of the most famous Bashkir military leaders , fled to the Urals — to the shock of Moscow — and thence to the armed revolt of the Basmachi in eastern Turkestan . |
| 18 | This necessitated special arrangements with the train traversing the Plas Crug ground frame to the run round loop and thence to the old Platform 3 . |
| 19 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 20 | Both are seen as emerging out of a human ‘ need ’ to associate with other humans , which in turn leads to increased production , further increased needs and thence to the social division of labour . |
| 21 | There are too many loopholes allowing poached ivory to be " laundered " into the legal trade and thence onto the open market . |
| 22 | In talks at The Hague on Oct. 4 , chaired by Lord Carrington , agreement appeared to have been reached between Croatia and Serbia on lifting the blockade of army barracks and on including the Serbian minority in Croatia in future talks . |
| 23 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 24 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 25 | Since last year 's season of tests , one cyclone , Reva , has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands . |
| 26 | He thought only of a water pipe , a narrow metal pipe that carried water away from the compound and under the wire and the high wooden fence and on towards the two-storey barracks and the kitchens and dormitories of the guards . |
| 27 | Just beyond the church is a track which leads back out of the bay and on towards the soaring cliffs of Fair Head . |
| 28 | She watched him ride on , past the lilacs , past the green door and on towards the main gate to the farmyard . |
| 29 | Since the mid 19th century , he has found , Ballinluig and the scattered rural communities of Dalguise , Caputh , Spittalfield and Dunkeld have fought flood in 1837 , 1839 , 1847 , 1868 , 1894 , and on into the present century . |
| 30 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |