Example sentences of "and [adv] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although displaced by 70 seaters in the Bexley area , the 60 seaters were retained to the end in the Croydon area , Nos. 64–93 and latterly all of the 489–493 batch . |
2 | A total of 52% ( 108/209 ) consulted their general practitioner — significantly more men and rather more of the younger sufferers and those in full time work . |
3 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
4 | The reason is that a spreadsheet program is generally inefficient at performing calculations and so much of the theoretical gain is lost . |
5 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
6 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
7 | This is the second talk in a series following the history , sort of Victorian fashion , but not just what people wore but hopefully explaining why they wore it , both the actual manufacturing , physical why they wore it and perhaps some of the psychological reasons behind the changing fashion . |
8 | They want to stop our political levy and only half of the Tory funds is answerable for , from where they get it . |
9 | The details of how this happens must take account of the security interests of our neighbours and especially those of the Soviet Union . " |
10 | For modern scholars , there is no question but that Jesus was steeped in biblical teachings and especially those of the prophetic books . |
11 | Although the plight of the Nonconformists was eased considerably by the Toleration Act of 1689 , the intensity of the persecutions under Charles II , and especially those of the 1680s , had left a bitter legacy . |
12 | The fact is that many Liberals , and especially those in the local constituencies , adopted something of a larger mentality towards change . |
13 | To try and reduce the long-term effects in a region which is already an ecological disaster , peasant organizations and popular movements have encouraged small farmers and farming co-operatives to rediscover and reapply some of the traditional knowledge of their Indian ancestors . |
14 | It 's the first time the farm at Over just outside Gloucester has offered people the chance to pick their own pumpkins … and already many of the 12,000 giant orange vegetables spread across the 5 acre plot have been sold . |
15 | This season 's programme resumes on January 9 and already some of the biggest clubs in English rugby are fighting for their top-class lives . |
16 | Of course , that was yonks ago , and hardly any of the original characters are still around . |
17 | Like other powerful English rulers , he may also have been recognised as overlord by the Welsh and Scots , and possibly some of the Irish . |
18 | Having recognized the urgency of the problem — that , as we have seen , there is no pre-service teacher-training requirement for new entrants to the colleges and under half of the existing teaching force have a professional teaching qualification the Report made six main recommendations . |
19 | Roy Jenkins himself thought his friend Hugh Gaitskell was fighting on the wrong ground , and ought to have concentrated on amending not the party 's dogma , but its working constitution , ‘ so as , for example , to make the National Executive Committee less the creature of the trade unions and more that of the Parliamentary Labour Party ’ . |
20 | The room was low , and precious little of the falling day crept in at the one small , grimy window . |
21 | State funding of the arts and of opera in particular is not even remotely capable of maintaining the status quo , and precious little of the commercial sponsorship that provides the lifeline to all the major opera companies is targeted at contemporary works . |
22 | What we do know is that much of the three great islands bordering the Java Sea — Sumatra , Java and Borneo — and nearly all of the smaller islands inside the sea itself lie below an altitude of 200 feet . |
23 | The new postwar constitutions of France and Italy ( and later that of the new Federal Republic of Germany ) included clauses which allowed for the possibility of the abrogation of national sovereignty in favour of supranational authorities . |
24 | This monumental achievement acknowledged the work of Marsh and also that of the Russian geographer A.I. Woeikof ( 1842–1914 ) , who had developed a utilitarian approach to the study of the earth 's surface acknowledging the impact of man 's activities . |
25 | Having passed the green flashing light at the end of the main breakwater and also that of the inner Leon y Castillo mole , both of which are left to starboard , arriving yachts should make their way to the small boat harbour . |
26 | The discharge of crude into the Gulf once again created a huge floating oil slick reported by Platt 's as measuring 35 miles long by 10 miles wide ( 56 x 16 km ) , which endangered the seawater intake points of nearby desalination plants and also much of the resident bird population , drawing charges of ‘ environmental terrorism , . |
27 | Some competitions yield better results than others , particularly worthwhile are environmental projects and also some of the prestigious art competitions . |
28 | We 've now had a letter from Simon , as you asked us to get , on the trees and recreation ground , saying that , yes indeed , he says he now points out that there are dangers in the willow tree and also the dead Leylandi erm behind the children 's play area , and also some of the dead wood which we 've already identified . |
29 | In spite of the stormy weather we managed to carry out fairly regular patrols between Oban and Stornoway , covering the principal fishing ports of the mainland coast and also those of the Outer Hebrides . |
30 | It was also beginning to worry Coleman that while he and the whole NARCOG apparatus of government agents and informants were watching the Syrians , Syrian agents and probably many of the same informants were watching them . |