Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , it was through the work and recommendations of its special committees that the Institution took cognisance of what was happening in the world around it , and was able to lead its membership toward a more enlightened view of educational thought and progress and away from the traditional one of on-the-job training supported by evening or postal tuition surmounted by the Institution 's examination .
2 In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman .
3 ‘ I can go in on the morning bus with Flora , ’ Anna said , ‘ and home on the early-afternoon one to Quindale .
4 when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall .
5 And now for the other one .
6 This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems .
7 As usual the sports firms were slow to respond , and even by the mid-Eighties you still could n't buy good , exclusive trainers in most cities .
8 But in the 1920s £200 was a high price for a Matisse and even in the Thirties his work rarely made over £1000 .
9 But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts .
10 The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild .
11 During the 1970s and well into the '80s it was usual for four Pakistanis to fill four quarter-finals places .
12 Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends .
13 And then on the other one was erm who wrote erm no , what was , who was the sommat of the Blytons .
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