Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 2 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 3 | ( Edited by Peter Edwards , available from Essex CCC , ) is the fattest and most thorough of the yearbooks received , probably because , as the editorial points out , last year ‘ there were so many aspects of Essex 's Championship success ’ . |
| 4 | MALAYSIA : On the west coast , Penang is the largest and most developed of the islands , with attractive beaches and an interesting history ( it is the oldest British settlement in Malaysia ) . |
| 5 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 6 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 7 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 8 | The palest and most wagtail-like of the pipits , with its almost uniform sandy-brown plumage ( scarcely streaked above , unstreaked below ) , long tail , and wagtail-like stance . |
| 9 | Sanskrit is the language of classical India , one of the oldest and most significant of the civilisations of the world . |
| 10 | In 1991 the Conservative government proposed to privatise one of the oldest and most respected of the inspectorates — Her Majesty 's Inspectors of Schools . |
| 11 | Apart from being a major port and ferry terminal , Cherbourg also has an extensive yacht marina , and is of course gateway to the Cotentin peninsula , where many of the bloodiest and most important of the battles of the liberation were fought in the immediate aftermath of the Allied invasion . |
| 12 | Jersey is the largest and most southerly of the islands , and being only 14 miles from the coast of France offers a taste of the Continent in local names and food without leaving the UK ! |
| 13 | It can not be an enterprise on its own , but enables its members to facilitate or develop their economic activities through a vehicle ( which may have a legal personality ) , while the members remain jointly and severally liable for the debts of the combined enterprise and are taxed directly on their respective proportionate shares of the profits . |
| 14 | Answer guide : A sole proprietorship has one owner whereas a partner has at least two , partners are jointly and severally liable for the debts of the partnership , there needs to be separate accounts kept of the transactions relating to each partner , agreements need to be reached regarding profit shares etc . |
| 15 | The selection of the preferred option is often a political process and so subject to the values that politicians bring to the process as discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 16 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 17 | This second volume contains , besides several ingenious smaller pieces , written on particular occasions , The Unhappy Father , a tragedy , with three acts of a second play , written at the request of a friend , in about a fortnight , and some letters of this extraordinary young woman , which have a solidity in them far beyond what could be expected from one of her years , and so destitute of the advantages of education … |
| 18 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 19 | Their anatomy is so specialised and so different from the urodeles that they are classified in an order of their own , the caecilians . |
| 20 | These are themselves limited to the provision of various forms of injunctions , which are only effective if there is a power of arrest attached , and only enforcable by the police . |
| 21 | The official majority viewpoint on the other hand , was expressed by Brockway and Maxton , who were hostile to the Communist Party and constantly aware of the dangers of isolation . |
| 22 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 23 | Next I am not satisfied that the carrying out of the registrar 's order , though extensive and highly inconvenient for the appellants , will create such a precedent that a flood of such orders will follow which would disrupt the business of major auditing firms in the City who carry out these administrations . |
| 24 | It will develop operations in other countries ; it will seek to develop downstream subsidiaries ; it will become increasingly self-reliant and all this will make it less and less relevant to the responsibilities of a government ministry . |
| 25 | But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years . |
| 26 | Earn outs are becoming less and less popular as the disadvantages often outweigh the advantages . |
| 27 | Conversely , large establishments may be reluctant to join since they will be more self-sufficient for bargaining purposes and less dependent on the services and support which an association can offer . |
| 28 | She 's now officially in remission and extremely grateful to the doctors who 've helped her . |
| 29 | The quality and breadth of learning can be of a very high order and entirely relevant to the needs of young people in modern society . |
| 30 | Precisely when these four additional kadiliks — or five , including Mecca — became mevleviyets is not clear in every case , though it is certain in one case , and entirely possible in the others , that they were not made mevleviyets immediately on coming into Ottoman possession . |