Example sentences of "and [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 2 | Lydia in the leading car was loth to hoot for fear of maddening the dogs and loth to get out for the same reason . |
| 3 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |
| 4 | Bobby Robson said : ‘ I spoke to Bryan and he declared himself fit and willing to join up with the party . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend is dealing with trade with Libya , will he bear it in mind that the United Kingdom is happy and willing to trade anywhere in the world , because that is important to us as a trading nation , but we must never sacrifice our values and standards , particularly those concerning our attitude towards international terrorism ? |
| 6 | And , in addition to having to keep his clothes clean , his body was often too bruised and painful to play apart from the fact that he did n't know how to . |
| 7 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 8 | Where it was still highly risky and dangerous to speak negatively of the Führer , people frequently vented their wrath on the Party and its representatives . |
| 9 | A bird , a pigeon perhaps , took startled flight , its wings almost brushing her , and Sabine jumped back against the wall , her heart hammering . |
| 10 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 11 | Awards over and bottles emptied , marketing 's great and good drifted out into the night . |
| 12 | Bereft of the supernatural assistance previously offered by the Catholic priest and unwilling to rely solely on the petitionary prayers favoured by Protestants , they resorted to time-honoured magical charms and remedies to cure sickness , improve the weather , or ward off evil spirits . |
| 13 | The radial shields are long and bar-like reaching almost to the middle of the disk . |
| 14 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the doubts surrounding the scope of the privilege which attaches to ‘ parliamentary proceedings ’ , certain other privileges are well established , although somewhat antiquated , and unlikely to figure significantly in the future . |
| 16 | It is a good idea to know at the outset whether the members of the critical mass will be willing and able to respond appropriately to the change ; then , if it is determined that certain members are unwilling or unable , that situation can be planned for and dealt with . |
| 17 | Because Deane is more mobile and able to go out to the wing and hold the ball up , it gives Wallace more space etc etc . |
| 18 | At least , he was unhurt and able to move around in the considerable space available to him . |
| 19 | You will need to be methodical and able to communicate effectively with the ability to operate largely unsupervised . |
| 20 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 21 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 22 | So he is caught between the two of them , embarrassed to welcome his guest and unable to say more on the phone . |
| 23 | Kevin had been poor then and unable to get home for the funeral . |
| 24 | Stationed as a soldier in Shanghai , and unable to get home until the following April , Warnie was in an agony of sorrow for the old days . |
| 25 | There is nothing worse than playing two superb shots to get within spitting distance of the green on that monster par five , then fluffing two chips and three-putting to end up with the dreaded double-bogey . |
| 26 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 27 | The males were dark , almost black , in colour , and difficult to make out among the shadows . |
| 28 | In the Preface to the Wessex edition Hardy described how the music books of the choir were handwritten , hymns and psalms at the front , dances and ballads at the back ‘ till sacred and secular met together in the middle , often with bizarre effect ’ . |
| 29 | He thought that this solved the problem , but it did not — it was a silly , thoughtless and trivial glossing over of the essential differences in the text . |
| 30 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |