Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rigidities and continuities of the planning and design process may constrain ability to deal with the unanticipated and often press purpose built systems into unlikely roles . |
| 2 | The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade . |
| 3 | As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 5 | WHO : The largest and longest established organization , the National Association of Prison Visitors , arranges visits by its nine hundred members with local prison governors . |
| 6 | In this case , the mill was saved by the much-respected and sadly missed author , David Verey , who purchased and restored the derelict mill in 1965 . |
| 7 | Particular attention was given to two issues : the rural and sparsely populated character of much of Wales , and the problems caused by the prevalence in Wales of two languages . |
| 8 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 9 | In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions . |
| 10 | These phenomena included ‘ the unexampled diffusion of wealth ’ ; ‘ uniformity of prices ’ ; ‘ an ‘ independence ’ of manners ’ ; ‘ the ‘ realistic ’ tendency in art and behaviour ’ ; ‘ the unprecedented growth of population ’ ; ‘ the astounding cheapness of most necessaries ’ ; ‘ the universal and sometimes frenzied spirit of competition ’ ; the ending of feudalism and the introduction of freedom . |
| 11 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 12 | Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail . |
| 13 | Incidentally , in the completed and highly recommended movie Branagh does look totally out of his skull in that scene . |
| 14 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 15 | James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March . |
| 16 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 17 | The Indian civil service never had more than 1,000 members to administer the vast and densely populated subcontinent — a tiny fraction ( at most 1 per cent ) of the legions of Confucian mandarins and palace eunuchs employed next door to administer a not-much-more populous China . |
| 18 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 19 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 20 | The driver said nothing , but we were in Broadway and the seventies and still heading north . |
| 21 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |
| 22 | Overall , it 's a decent game for the curious and mechanically minded PC owner who thinks £20 is a good price . |
| 23 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 24 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 25 | On a political level , these schemes help to maintain the status quo , because they satisfy some of the minimum housing needs of the poor and so reduce pressure for radical reforms . |
| 26 | It stayed with her throughout the long and endlessly delayed journey across France . |
| 27 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 28 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 29 | The older and best known way is as an ‘ organisation man ’ . |
| 30 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |