Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory learnt from his Roman sources that Chlodio captured Cambrai , and occupied territory as far as the Somme . |
| 2 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 3 | Using contrary approaches — by examining the work of popularisers such as T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall , and by looking beyond the superficial , anti-scientific statements of imaginative writers — she has revealed an intellectual and emotional agreement far closer than we have been led to believe . |
| 4 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 5 | It 's still a pretty new and unfamiliar business as far as we 're concerned . |
| 6 | Please send me a sponsorship package and free t-shirt as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Please send me a sponsorship package and free t-shirt as soon as possible . |
| 8 | There have been three Railway Gas Works at Wolverton and gas was supplied by the Company to all Wolverton and Old Wolverton as far as the Old Wolverton turn , to all of New Bradwell and the Bradville Estate , the former having its own gasometer positioned at the western end of Bridge Street alongside the canal . |
| 9 | He 'd prefer to see low profits today and high quality tomorrow rather than high profits today and low quality tomorrow . |
| 10 | Culture , both in relation to the species and to the individual , is able to operate according to the reality principle , aiming to adapt the group , or the person , to the natural and social environment more realistically than would otherwise be the case . |
| 11 | Although certain other lines had their own Royal vehicles and carried our own and foreign Royalty more frequently than the LNWR , it was in the main the Wolverton LNWR and later LMSR train that carried the Royal family on long railway journeys . |
| 12 | Israel exploited the tension between secular nationalism and Muslim fundamentalism as far as it was able . |
| 13 | Why do I have to give myself galloping shingles and chronic insomnia just so as the critic of the Evening Standard can say , ‘ Maureen Lipman is to the world of chat show hosts what Frank Bruno is to the world of petit-point ’ ? ’ |
| 14 | Mr Todd , 73 , who is currently on tour with a new play , said : ‘ It is for good conduct and long service as far as I am concerned . ’ |
| 15 | There were payments for medical relief and outdoor relief as well as for midwifery and for leeches ( 14s.6d ) . |
| 16 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 17 | At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto . |
| 18 | Cato knew Hellenistic historiographical , agricultural and military theory probably better than any of his Latin contemporaries , but indulged in mock fury against Greek writers and especially against Greek doctors : " iurarunt inter se barbaros necare omnes medicina " ( Plin . |
| 19 | If the results are striking as social and intellectual history perhaps hardly as science , as a physicist might see it — the book is also striking for the information it gives about the Society for Psychical Research . |
| 20 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |