Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 2 | Humans , we are told , never tolerate for long the predatory and revolutionary power of money without constraining it . |
| 3 | The Melrose stand-off had been stung by comments after both the Irish and French matches that he was not being creative enough and that the boot had become his only attacking weapon . |
| 4 | Dr Mumby was found guilty of only the first and last charges , for which he was admonished . |
| 5 | No question , though , about the pick of probably the largest and choicest crop of books in the game 's history . |
| 6 | As chairman of probably the oldest and certainly the noisiest of the Institute 's technical committees , I am able to reassure such doubters ; indeed , the Technical Advisory Committee 's advice is still the foundation of most Institute responses on accounting and auditing matters . |
| 7 | But a closer examination of both the morphological and structural evidence shows that this model is inadequate . |
| 8 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 9 | She had a history of aching in the chest , pain extending to both shoulder blades , and neck pain associated with tiredness of both the upper and lower arms and hands . |
| 10 | After receiving alarmist reports from the heads of both the Second and Third Departments , on 27 February / 11 March 1848 Nicholas set up a committee under Menshikov to recommend ways of limiting the circulation of unwelcome ideas . |
| 11 | The interaction of the elements in figure 5.1 will determine the outcomes of both the stated and the hidden curriculum . |
| 12 | James embodied strict conservatism in regard to observance of both the moral and the ceremonial law . |
| 13 | But confining himself to Newcastle he lists a depressing role call of both the mediocre and the plain ugly . |
| 14 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price-performance curve . |
| 15 | It 's also a way of saying that Pentiums will be with us for a while , overlapping the life cycles of both the 80486 and P6 , and that it will be some time yet before they reach a competitive price/performance curve . |
| 16 | Third , the war reminded us that where the combination of manipulation and censorship is used to exercise control and power it leads to a dehumanisation of both the controlled and the controller . |
| 17 | Dynastic disputes followed the death of Albrecht , who died from dysentery in 1439 , whilst preparing an army to keep the Turks at bay , and the Habsburgs were temporarily eclipsed as incumbents of both the Imperial and Hungarian thrones . |
| 18 | These ‘ social factors ’ then , are part of both the place-based and non-place-based concerns described above . |
| 19 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 20 | Instead , he developed a concept of the rule of law , drawing on aspects of both the ancient and modern conceptions , which seemed incompatible with the extensive use of these governmental powers . |
| 21 | Doing so , however , will challenge the modern counterparts of both the Hobbesian and Rousseauan views of human beings and human behaviour . |
| 22 | We see that there is both good photometric and dynamical evidence for a bar at the Galactic Centre , that the orientation of the bar is fairly tightly constrained by the HI and CO observations , and that the dynamics of the bar explain the large-scale kinematics of both the atomic and molecular gas at the centre . |
| 23 | At the present time studies directed towards the educational product are being carried out , and long-term evaluation of both the introductory and advanced courses in information retrieval is in progress . |
| 24 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 25 | And taking into account the prices of both the ME-6 and ME-10 they really are the best of both worlds . |
| 26 | On Nov. 7 the parliament voted to appropriate the property of both the Soviet and the Lithuanian Communist Party ( CP ) without compensation ( the CP had been banned in Lithuania from Aug. 23 — see p. 38373 ) . |
| 27 | Electronic spectra often contain information about the vibration frequencies of both the lower and the upper electronic states of the species involved , as described in Chapter 6 . |
| 28 | What we believe is required is a better understanding of both the quantitative and qualitative impacts arising during the full life-cycle of use of minerals products . |
| 29 | What we believe is required is a better understanding of both the quantitative and qualitative impacts arising during the full life-cycle of use of minerals products . |
| 30 | The Act of 1902 reinforced divisions in education which had long existed but which had become more acute with the rapid expansion of both the private and public educational sectors since the 1870s . |