Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 After all , death was a common event in the workhouse , where only the poor and homeless lived .
2 Apathy or the new loyalties to working-class politics , where both the Labour and Communist parties were militantly hostile to fascism , ensured that the BUF made no impact in such localities .
3 We have seen that perhaps the growing and adolescent dinosaur had a metabolism that actually converted from some form of endothermy to homeothermic or heterothermic metabolism .
4 Thirdly , the competitive nature of capitalism means that only the largest and most wealthy companies will survive and prosper .
5 The Court of Appeal decided that only the former and not the latter were recoverable .
6 Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery .
7 But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy .
8 So the idea of a mass-market paper for the Masses , rather than just the Concerned and Committed , began to surface .
9 He felt that both the proprietary and the entity views had unacceptable weaknesses : first that the proprietary view , being personal , was unsatisfactory for a public limited company where the owners change as shares are traded ; secondly that the entity view begged the question of how you define the entity .
10 However , this paper has attempted to demonstrate that there is a whole range of dimensions to the experience of ageing with a disability , and also that both the subjective and objective reality of ageing can be understood only in the context of prior experience .
11 The discussion so far has implicitly assumed that both the long and the short legs of the spread involve an equal number of contracts .
12 Afterwards he stated that both the Irish and the UK governments were doing everything possible to combat terrorism .
13 In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one .
14 In a written report Mr Amos states that both the junior and senior clubs are doing well and regularly attracting over 20 members each night .
15 In view of this it would seem that both the civil and criminal criteria for the admission of similar fact evidence may be relevant .
16 That those responsible for the choice of hymns and worship songs be guided by the quality of their doctrinal content , language and musical idiom , and that both the new and the old be included in the repertoire ( 530–533 , 538 — 539 , 541 ) .
17 So when it is argued today that the sexual deviant challenges sexual difference by denaturalizing it through parody , the realization of the early modern transvestite that both the deviant and the difference are effects of culture rather than nature is being revived and sophisticated .
18 THE Inland Revenue has decreed that both the ordinary and the preference shares of Sound Diffusion , the electrical company that went into receivership in December , are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes , writes Jason Nisse .
19 The Commission accept that both the 1968 and 1978 Theft Acts and the case law on them are thought by some to be " seriously defective " , but the draft Code was a restatement not a Code to reform the substance of the law .
20 It is noteworthy , however , that both the British and French governments , with their much smaller nuclear forces , have apparently stuck to a declaratory policy of targeting Soviet cities , and have not made statements repudiating purely anti-population strategy in any way comparable with the 1983 US statement quoted .
21 There were reports that both the Lebanese and Syrian army had opened anti-aircraft fire on the attacking Israeli planes .
22 such as ideologically based preferences and the need for linkage between central and peripheral implementation agencies , Tarrow argues that both the pluralist and the Marxist approaches pay insufficient attention to the political leverage which the periphery may exercise over the centre , and to the possibility of communal interests being voiced in peripheral areas in ways which can have real effect on the centre .
23 Otto-Hermann Gruneberg , a director of Siemens Nixdorf , told Computerwoche that both the MX and RM ranges run under Unix System V.4 and compete with Targon .
24 But the new factor is that both the Serbian and the Croatian leadership have said that they are willing in principle to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force .
25 Although both the credal and experimental forms of predestinarianism may now appear harsh and inflexible creeds , during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries they accorded well with the political and social realities of life in England .
26 Though the majority of teachers reported grading reading requirements according to pupils ' abilities , the general practice did not include close supervision of pupils ' reading , and it appeared that frequently the interested and able pupils read widely on a topic while the poorest readers did little other than copy short statements or cut out pictures .
27 Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued .
28 Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further .
29 It is clear that even the named and identified members of Jesus 's following represent a broad and diverse spectrum .
30 Not the precise pattern of plants and trees beyond the human enclave , nor the affectionate grass , nor even the strange and delightful animal life — if it was animal life which peered from the undergrowth at the human installations with delicate curiosity .
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