Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United should have killed York off then … they had more of the ball and the best of the chances … even York manager reckons that Hereford are a better team than their league position suggests and he was happy with a draw … the equaliser came after 33 minutes a header from John Borthwick … one all … what now for United … |
| 2 | City had more play and the best of the chances , but they only took one . |
| 3 | North had charge of several covert operations , many of which are still secret ; his brief included counter-terrorism , as well as the sending of arms to Iran and the resupply of the contras . |
| 4 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 5 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 6 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 7 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 8 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 9 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 10 | The former are bounded by the main stems of the principal Veins , and the latter by the branches of the forked veins . |
| 11 | Here was the source of the Committee members ' indecision and the second of the factors which decided the matter in Franco 's favour . |
| 12 | Throw the blue object onto the button , go left , fall down and cross the river on the cakes , go up on the ice cream , go right , fall down , cross the river on the cake , climb up via the platforms and lifts to the top of the map , jump onto the wall to the left , fall down one platform , stand on the lift moving left to right , collect the cocoa bean and fall down , go right , cross the first river on the cake , and the second on the platforms , when you 're on top of the wall next to the second river . |
| 13 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 14 | I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) . |
| 15 | Cardiff watched as the three policemen on the cordon-barrier lifted the wooden pole and the last of the police cars slid past and vanished into the storm . |
| 16 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 's father was Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton , first Baron Lytton as distinct from first Earl , and wrote some massive novels including Eugene Aram ( 3 vols. 1832 ) , The Last Days of Pompeii ( 3 vols. 1834 ) , The Caxtons ( 3 vols. 1849 ) and The Last of the Barons ( 1843 ) . |
| 17 | He stumped off , in search of split infinitives and incorrect usages of the adverb ‘ hopefully ’ , and the Last of the Hippies picked up his Moonchild or Starbeam or whatever , and calmed her down . |
| 18 | I mean Jim went to work at one o'clock and the last of the kids went home , I 've had my dinner |
| 19 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 20 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 21 | ‘ So here we are , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ in Talisker , biggest city of the north , and the last before the mountains . |
| 22 | Yeah and the same for the bases . |
| 23 | The captain 's party had disappeared , and the Chinese beneath the grilles had grown quiet again . |
| 24 | We shall be coming back in this chapter and the next to the problems that occur when choice is based on too much of ‘ I love me ’ and ‘ I love the me in you ’ , but first we need to look at the basic capacity to realize some love for another , with its mix of self-regard and altruism . |
| 25 | The casino , containing restaurants and a flat for the owners , was given holiday spirit with a viewing platform reached by a spiral stair adjoining the entrance . |
| 26 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 27 | Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’ |
| 28 | There are two types : a smaller one in the mountains and a larger in the valleys ( the bulls stand at 141cm and weigh 800–1,200kg , the cows 130cm and 540–600kg ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Ray Wilkins is still a tremendous influence in midfield , and a few of the players Gerry has introduced have really blossomed . |
| 30 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |