Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 2 | A king would not be an hereditary monarch , but would be elected from a small cohort of princely and chiefly families , in the ancient Irish manner . |
| 3 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 4 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 5 | Although DG plans eight-processor models — see above — the optimum for the AViiON 's tightly-coupled architecture is ‘ somewhere above eight and below 16″ , according to West . |
| 6 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 7 | Tam David-West , Petroleum Resources Minister in 1984-86 and subsequently Mines , Power and Steel Minister until 1988 , was granted bail on Sept. 17 after being charged with " corruptly enriching " in 1986 a United States-based oil company . |
| 8 | Ian Ramsey School from Stockton shared the runs around in making 94 for nine and then bowlers Ian Richards ( 4–8 ) and David Sweet ( 3–10 ) Red House from Norton , to 64 , also for nine wickets . |
| 9 | I am thinking of Xtreegold for file management , wordprocessors that can split screen and pull text from one piece of work to another and finally Windows , the ultimate hop to and go to and transfer stuff to the clipboard and elsewhere too . |
| 10 | Hourly doses at first and then tablets take up to four times a day for two to three days are recommended . |
| 11 | His models attempt to describe in formal mathematical terms the replacement of a population of one species by another and also situations in which pairs of species persist together as stable , mixed populations . |