Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And about how the tides are caused , ’ Sarah said . |
| 2 | You will learn about how they all depend on each other and about how the destruction of any one of them can have far reaching consequences . |
| 3 | Dr Woodward will be giving talks about the replica and about how the Romans made mosaics . |
| 4 | Within these rural areas there seems to be a definite preference in favour of not only smaller towns ( i.e. those below 50,000 people ) but also villages , for both the periods 1961–71 and 1971–81 , and for both the USA and England and Wales as shown in Table 5.2 . |
| 5 | The BBC 's Ski Sunday made Val d'Isere its TV curtainraiser , and for once the Criterium of the First Snow could boast a carpet of real snow . |
| 6 | ‘ I d-do n't know , Sir , ’ Lexandro stuttered ; and for once the title of Sir came sincerely to his lips . |
| 7 | And for once the finale — everyone coming together to sing Dylan 's Chimes of Freedom — seemed not corny but exactly right . |
| 8 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
| 9 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 10 | ‘ from its opening pages , Jean Greenwood 's Class Readers presents alternatives which are a challenge to our perceptions of what can be done with graded readers , and of why the alternatives might be tried … |
| 11 | Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times . |
| 12 | Chilean Communist Elias Laferrte offers the following revealing explanation of the fluidity of the political situation at the time , of how Marxism was introduced into the Chilean Socialist Workers ' party , and of how the evolution of the party was influenced by a blend of Marxist and anarchist ideas and attitudes : |
| 13 | As the fable continues , it tells of family visits to York and Malham and of how the child grew up in understanding of many things . |
| 14 | He moves onwards to tell of how Brutus was always Caesar 's favourite , and of how the dictator had always loved him . |
| 15 | Assessment of the problems associated with the overdose , of the overdose itself , and of how the problems might be overcome . |
| 16 | She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it . |
| 17 | Also , since conjunction is a device for signalling relations between chunks of information , it is naturally bound up with both the chunking of information , how much to say in one go , and with how the relations between such chunks of information are perceived and signalled . |
| 18 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 19 | From Drewsteignton a steep lane drops to Fingle Bridge and from here the route heads upstream along the gorge , picking its way through woodland which grows thickly right to the water 's edge . |
| 20 | These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character . |
| 21 | In quantum physics the Big Bang is seen as a point of infinite density within which the whole universe is contained and from where the universe springs . |
| 22 | On at least one trip to the town visitors must be sure to take the cable-car up to Saint Ubaldo 's basilica where the saint 's remains are housed and from where the views of Gubbio are simply spectacular . |
| 23 | I know have to give my conclusions to the resolution of that conflicting and often very , very massive evidence as to how the plaintiff 's care routine will change , when it will change and from where the carers will come . |
| 24 | Three weeks after her trial began on February 15 this year , she collapsed , and from then the dock remained empty . |
| 25 | From above and from below the pressures of class , existing at present , could be resentfully felt and wished away . |
| 26 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 27 | Return to Rorschach , and from there the tour continues to St Gallen . |
| 28 | Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company . |
| 29 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 30 | Bomber Command itself was situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and from there the orders were sent out every day to each Group Headquarters , indicating which target had been selected for that night 's operation , and the Groups then sent on the information to the Commanding Officers at each of the air fields , or ‘ out-stations ’ . |