Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 2 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 3 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 4 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 5 | Comments from around the office about the amplified sound were all very favourable and with a little work ( on the nut , in particular ) this guitar could more than handle a pro gig . |
| 6 | The change effected by Gandhi by the use of satyāgraha , however , makes his principle more explicit and at the same time links it more closely with his concept of Truth ( Satya ) , and non-violence ( ahi sā ) . |
| 7 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 8 | It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that . |
| 9 | Port books have been neglected in the past as a source for internal trade in the proto-industrial period because of the nature of the source — it is vast and at the same time problematic . |
| 10 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 11 | Elaborate precautions were taken to avoid disputes over precedence between the representatives of France and Spain ( the long-standing rivalry between these two states was the most serious potential source of this kind of friction ) by placing them both on the king 's right and at the same distance from him . |
| 12 | Our brief was to board and rummage as many of these foreign vessels as possible and at the same time carry out checks on the British boats to control any possible lead in duty free stores . |
| 13 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 14 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 15 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 16 | On the other hand , over half the holdings remained intact and in the same family possession . |
| 17 | As she lay in the heat , she felt drowsy and at the same time tinglingly alive . |
| 18 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 19 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 20 | gold is virtually indestructible and at the same time is recognisable to most people ; |
| 21 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 22 | It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West . |
| 23 | A police officer formed the opinion that she was unlawfully at large and on the same day went to the patient 's home with other police and nurses . |
| 24 | The ethical " problem " arises from the fact that Ethics is for us inevitable and at the same time impossible . |
| 25 | Lesley Faragher is Britain 's top lady rodeo star yet is decidedly feminine , quiet , petite and at the same time of writing possesses the warm glow as an expectant mother . |
| 26 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 27 | Things which are ‘ unclassified and unnamed are alien , non-existent and at the same time threatening ’ ( p. 30 ) , and anchoring is the mechanism for reducing this threat by imposing familiar classifications . |
| 28 | ‘ Clearly , ’ he said to himself , ‘ Each T on this ball is regular and of the same dimensions as each and every other T. Clearly also , each and every pentagon is regular and the same size as each and every other pentagon . ’ |
| 29 | How can paintings which are at once great and at the same time repellent earn their creator such a disproportionately large sum of money ? |
| 30 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |