Example sentences of "[det] and [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This study aims to discover patterns of migration of labour within and between the townships of Calverley parish and to look at the role of vestry policy upon this and also upon movement into and out of the parish .
2 Lately this town there 's more layabouts in this town and some and anywhere in Lancashire you do n't , they 're not Lancashire people , oh they 're homeless and they live in , in boarding houses at the expense of er the tax payers
3 Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life
4 The solution also implies that and so from equation ( 9.14 ) , there is a phase shift β given by However , has to be in the range -1 to + 1 .
5 The council seemed satisfied by that and early in September , with protestors gathered outside County Hall , gave permission for the dump .
6 Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year .
7 That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on .
8 And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs .
9 In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking .
10 His remark to Berthe Morisot in 1889 — ‘ I go less and less to paris , where the only thing people talk about is politics ’ — supports this view .
11 In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ .
12 But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future .
13 Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base .
14 So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York .
15 The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’
16 It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature .
17 Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions .
18 Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour .
19 As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years .
20 It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization .
21 Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children .
22 And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not .
23 For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women .
24 As the years passed , he was beginning to sound more and more like Matthew Arnold — although Arnold was never quite able to practise what he preached .
25 Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ .
26 Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females .
27 In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before .
28 When Machado died in 1706 , Medina succeeded him as contractor for supplying bread and wagons to the land forces of the grand alliance , initially on his own and later in partnership with his older brother , Joseph de Medina of Amsterdam , and with Joseph 's son , Moses .
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