Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be as short as practicable , clear and to the point . |
| 2 | Most newspapers comment however was clear and to the point . |
| 3 | It was also clear and to the point , the simple point being that property values are so high in London and the south-east that in all equity there must be some special weighting to account for them . |
| 4 | He grabbed her collar , dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll . |
| 5 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
| 6 | Posi 's cheerful voice , clear and over the mini-comm in the pendant . |
| 7 | Her response was pithy and to the point . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the margin of seats in the Senate was slim and in the House , despite an impressive surge by the Republicans , the Democrats were still ahead by 51 seats . |
| 9 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 10 | ‘ The Government must recognise that training is the way forward both for the long-term unemployed and for the business community . ’ |
| 11 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 12 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 13 | The task should be specific , interesting and within the group 's capability . |
| 14 | Tsoy is half-Korean and from the underbelly of Leningrad 's punk community : he used to accompany the band Swine on rhythm guitar in 1981 . |
| 15 | It is similar in type to the Czech Pied and to the Aosta Red Pied of Italy , and is related to the Montbéliard . |
| 16 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 17 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 18 | They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music . |
| 19 | I could n't find what was wrong and in the end I gave up and started to walk home . |
| 20 | Its loss ratio must accordingly be quite high and as the dominant UK export credit underwriter , this should not be surprising . |
| 21 | Expectations are always exceedingly high and at the minute club football in Cavan is poor . ’ |
| 22 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 23 | Clinton , a graduate of Hot Springs High and of the School of Government at Georgetown University , Washington , would dispute anything to provoke discussion . |
| 24 | Secondly , it is aimed high and to the side of the opponent 's chest , since this makes it more difficult to block . |
| 25 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 26 | By the time Robert III came to the throne in 1390 , Dundonald Castle was probably about 250 years old and below the standard required for a royal residence ; in any case , it was too far removed from the principal seats of government and power , such as Edinburgh and Stirling , to be a permanent royal household . |
| 27 | Oh yes , there 'll be young bucks out there who see you as old and in the way . |
| 28 | Chairman Peter Hollings still insisted yesterday its £18.3m bid last year was ‘ generous and in the best interests of both companies ' shareholders ’ . |
| 29 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 30 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |