Example sentences of "and [det] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This in turn demands an exploration of a variety of forces that have shaped and constructed ‘ modern sexuality ’ , and these range from the familial and extra-familial forces that shape sexual and gender orientation at the level of the individual , to the social and industrial transformations that have altered class relations .
2 S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries .
3 What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates .
4 The obverse of money market advances is money market deposits , and these work in the same way .
5 Oak is the most commonly used wood for smoking meat in the UK but other varieties are also used and all contribute to the final flavour of the ham .
6 The hard struggles to realize democracy , against the entrenched interests of birth and wealth ; the deprecation of democracy as the rule of " the mob " or " the rabble " ; the conviction that the poor , or working men , have no competence in politics ; the uneasy coexistence of political equality with social and economic inequality ; the linking of the struggle for democracy with the struggle for freedom of speech and equality before the law ; the dependence of democracy upon a communal sense of identity — all these are found in the Greek experience , and all recur in the modern evolution of democracy and the debate it generated .
7 If both or either is impaired then so is this capacity , and both depend upon the psychological capacities of the agent plus the recognition of other members of the moral and political community .
8 When he gets to the event and discovers that the people there are friendly , interesting and pleasant company — and most belong to the same political party — he will begin to think .
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