Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 2 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 3 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 4 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 5 | By way of a quite proper analogy , suppose there were a certain amazing truth , that all and only the members of one species of tree , say Turner 's Oak , could be described in a given language by sentences of a certain deep structure , or simply a rare surface-grammatical sequence : indefinite article , a curious gerund , preposition of a certain sort , and so on . |
| 6 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 7 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 8 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 9 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 10 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 11 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 12 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 13 | Once the only landfall for Britons bound for the Continent and far and away the best route today . |
| 14 | Now , the brand is the third largest in the country and far and away the biggest selling stout . |
| 15 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 17 | The chorus sound is sweet and clean and even the analogue distortion and overdrive , while sounding very much on the processed side , are very responsive to programming . |
| 18 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 19 | I went back to the Knitmaster with a 302 , then a 321 and through the gamut until I had one of the first Electronic 500 models ; still with that , I bought a push button Brother for the lace , then the 840 , and 910 and finally the 950i — now I have that and the Passap Duomatic 80 . |
| 20 | Jan Hus preached here between 1402 and 1413 and later the Bethlehem Chapel became one of the centres of the Reformation . |
| 21 | But that and then the rest of the land is is open countryside E two land . |
| 22 | In such an assessment , of course , some items are the subject of fixed costs , but many and usually the most significant , are the subject of a discretion . |
| 23 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 24 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 25 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |