Example sentences of "[adv] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms . |
| 2 | At the present deductions are subject to considerable doubt , for the detailed properties of landform have not been studied carefully enough and the fundamental aspects of most geomorphic processes are still poorly understood . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the chair he was sitting in was soft enough and the recorded harpsichord music sufficiently soporific to calm the anxieties and lower the defences of most people . |
| 4 | Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly and the soft scent of lavender rose from the pleated bodice of her gown . |
| 5 | However it seems that the Flat continues endlessly and the main race is the £10,000 Tolka Handicap which should see yet another onslaught from the highly successful Dermot Weld stable . |
| 6 | He pursed his lips thoughtfully and the hidden laughter in his eyes warned her that she might not like his answer . |
| 7 | ’ Whenever there were wolves about we would be called inside and the outside doors would be locked . |
| 8 | It was open and I could see inside and the closed loo door took on the semblance of the Berlin Wall . |
| 9 | The Chaconne for a Chinese Man and woman … is written at the other end of the volume … no music has been found for the ‘ Grand Dance of Twenty-four Persons ’ at the end of the [ Fifth ] Act ) ; in [ the ] MS there is no break between Hymen 's solo ‘ Love ne'er had yet– and the short Trio ‘ They shall be [ as ] happy ’ ( where , according to the Libretto , the Dance should take place ) , and it seems therefore possible that it was omitted in performance . |
| 10 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 11 | A game of football had started below and the familiar quarrels of sportsmen were already floating up to me . |
| 12 | It rises high above the loch and its fringe of woodlands , and at its highest point is provided with car parks giving a magnificent view of Loch Torridon below and the exciting range of mountains beyond . |
| 13 | We would be grateful if you would signify your agreement to the above by signing the letter below and the attached copies , and returning the original letter to us . |
| 14 | It was smaller , buried much deeper and the later town of Resina is built partly on top . |
| 15 | All persons privy to confidential , and particularly price-sensitive , information concerning an offer or proposed offer must treat that information as secret and may pass it to another person only if it is necessary to do so and the other person is made aware of the need for secrecy . |
| 16 | The Directorate have agreed that staff who are able to arrive at work early should be encouraged to do so and the following arrangements will apply : — |
| 17 | Why should this be so and the rational processes just described not take prominence ? |
| 18 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |
| 19 | Edges that ought to be significant are either absent from an image or almost so and the strongest changes in an image are often changes in illumination and have nothing to do with meaningful relations in a scene . ’ |
| 20 | Rates of pay for what is a stressful job were extremely low , starting at £1.20 an hour : three-quarters of the unqualified workforce received £2.00 an hour or less and the highest rates of pay were well below £3.00 an hour . |
| 21 | The settlement is for next year only and the three-year planning system is discontinued ; from now on figures for future years will only be indicative . |
| 22 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 23 | In principle these two methods can be treated together and the relevant expressions are derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation describing the temperature dependence of the vapour pressure of a liquid where ΔH 1 is the latent heat of vapourization . |
| 24 | ‘ I am in covenant with other church leaders in Yorkshire and this , I think has a great significance — the way that we work together and the personal friendships that are growing between us . |
| 25 | Jonadab 's eyebrows drew together and the blue eyes hardened . |
| 26 | At home the children all slept together and the new baby with its parents till it came off the breast . |
| 27 | Even though the continuous assessment , course-work elements will have been graded during the preceding two years , the marks will be put together and the final grade awarded at this one time . |
| 28 | And he stuck them all together and the damn thing ran . |
| 29 | The trees were too close together and the snow-covered gorse seemed to have a life of its own , blocking our passage with its thick stems . |
| 30 | The crane , for moving the ramps which connected the rigs together and the inshore rig to the beach , was tested for free operation . |