Example sentences of "[det] and [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory .
2 The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year .
3 It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers .
4 So you 'd just You 'd just put the sixth if you know that there 's two twelfth you just like that and then the twelve and then you could count round like that
5 The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen .
6 Arthur picked a green disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth .
7 Arthur picked a smooth disc from this box in which all and only the green discs are smooth .
8 In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data .
9 Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity .
10 Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) .
11 When we consider the attainment of higher political office , the trend is for the ‘ typical ’ MP to prevail more and more the higher one goes .
12 As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives .
13 They were n't the kind of people who could get themselves together and organized , it was a more and more the bottom end of the scale and people who were actually erm you know , really powerless in many ways .
14 He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches .
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